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AMH 2020 Quiz 2 University Of Central Florida Question and answers verified to pass AMH 2020 Quiz 2 Edwin Drake - correct answer Founder of Modern oil. First American to successfully drill for Oil. Pioneered a new method for producing oil from the ground Isaac Singer - correct answer...

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AMH 2020 Quiz 2
Edwin Drake - correct answer ✔Founder of Modern oil.
First American to successfully drill for Oil.
Pioneered a new method for producing oil from the ground


Isaac Singer - correct answer ✔Founder of the sewing machine


John D Rockefeller - correct answer ✔Founded Standard Oil Company
Got into the refining of oil, owned 90% of all oil at his peak
Richest man in modern history


Standard Oil Company - correct answer ✔American Oil producing,
transporting, refining, and marketing company.
Essentially cornered the market of oil (monopoly), ruled Illegal by SC in 1911
Successors including Exxon, BP, Chevron, etc.


Yellow Dog Contract - correct answer ✔'Ironclad Oath'
Agreement between an employer and employee that by being employed, he
will not become a member of a labor union. (Outlawed in 1932)


Knights of Labor - correct answer ✔Created by Uriah Stephens,
Promoted the social and cultural uplift of workman, rejected socialism, and
anarchism, and demanded the 8-hour work day.
Acted as a labor union, and negotiated with employers, but was never well
organized.

, Haymarket Riot - correct answer ✔Aftermath of a bombing that took place at
a labor demonstration. May 4, 1886 at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
Started as a peaceful rally where workers were looking for an 8-hour work
day.


Sherman Antitrust Act - correct answer ✔Prohibits certain business activities
that are considered 'anti-competitive', and requires federal government to
investigate trusts.
Essentially used to prevent monopolies and artificial price raising on certain
companies.


Congress of Industrial Workers - correct answer ✔The Congress of Industrial
Organizations, proposed by John L. Lewis in 1938, was a federation of unions
that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada
from 1935 to 1955


Industrial Workers of the World - correct answer ✔Labor union founded in
1905 in Chicago, Illinois.
also known as IWW, strove to unite all laborers of all races who were
excluded from craft unions. There motto was "in injury to one is an injury to
all". They were known for their violence and sabotage


Ellis Island - correct answer ✔in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for
millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant
inspection station from 1892 until 1954


Gustavus Swift - correct answer ✔Changed our diet to a beef based diet.
Shipped cows over railroad already, changed to shipping meat already
butchered.
Turned down by American Railroad at first, but got through with Canadian
railroad and took off.

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