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AMSCO APUSH Chapter 17 (6.7-6.13)
Questions and Answers 100% Correct
gilded age - ANSWER - mark twain, superficial glitter of new wealth


iron law of wages - ANSWER - Theory proposed by English economist David Ricardo
suggesting that the pressure of population growth prevents wages from rising above the
subsistence level.


labor discontent - ANSWER - not safe, work by clock, low wages


ways to stop strikes - ANSWER - Lockout, blacklist, yellow dog contract, state militia, court
injunction


lockout - ANSWER - close the factory to break up the labor union


blacklist - ANSWER - names of pro-union workers circulated among employers


yellow dog contract - ANSWER - workers must sign an agreement not to join a labor union in
order to get a job


Private guards - ANSWER - brought in to put down strikes


Court injunction - ANSWER - judicial action by employer against strike


Scabs - ANSWER - were employees hired to break the picket line and take the jobs of the
protestors


Great railroad strike of 1877 - ANSWER - Railroad companies cut wages in order to reduce
costs, 2/3s of rails shut down, Hayes sends troops to end dispute, (100 die)

, Settlement Houses - ANSWER - Community centers located in the slums and near tenements
that gave aid to the poor, especially immigrants


gospel of wealth - ANSWER - This was a book written by Carnegie that described the
responsibility of the rich to be philanthropists. This softened the harshness of Social Darwinism
as well as promoted the idea of philanthropy.


Growth of the Suburbs - ANSWER - Cheaper, Inexpensive, transportation made it easy, Low
cost of construction, More private


Haymarket Bombing - ANSWER - bomb thrown at protest rally, 7 police die, police shot
protestors, caused great animosity in employers for workers' unions


knights of labor - ANSWER - labor union that sought to organize all workers and focused on
broad social reforms (anti child labor, monopolies etc)


Homestead strike - ANSWER - failed strike of iron/steel workers at Carnegie's plant that greatly
hurt their position/leverage


Pullman Strike - ANSWER - Pullman RR car announced pay cut;
American Railway Union boycotts the use of the Pullman cars; US mail failed to be delivered bc
usually connected by pullman workers;
US gov't sent injunction to end boycott; SCOTUS ruled injunction was constitutional


push factors for migration - ANSWER - poverty of farmworkers
overcrowding
joblessness
religious persecution


Old Immigrants - ANSWER - northern & Western Europe, The British Isles, Germany and
Scandinavia; Protestants; Many English speaking;
Can read, write, had some sort of skill (blacksmithing, etc)

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