Capital and Labor – Chapter 17 Created by Educational Technology Network. www.edtechnetwork.com 2009

Labor Not so Wild West Topic 5 10 20 30 40 50 Social Philosophies Trusts and Monopolies Labor Not so Wild West Topic 5 10 20 30 40 50

Question 1 - 10 Who wrote the Gospel of Wealth?

Answer 1 – 10 Andrew Carnegie

Question 1 - 20 What is the Gospel of Wealth?

Answer 1 – 20 The wealthy have a responsibility to society.

Question 1 - 30 What is Social Darwinism?

Answer 1 – 30 The most fit (intelligent and hard working) would naturally rise to the top of society.

Question 1 - 40 What is the Social Gospel?

Answer 1 – 40 Applied Christian values to social issues. Wanted the government to help solve society’s problems.

Question 1 - 50 Which social philosophy is described in the following quote: “A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.”

Answer 1 – 50 Social Darwinism

Question 2 - 10 What is a monopoly?

Answer 2 – 10 Business that controls all or almost all of its industry.

Question 2 - 20 Who owned Standard Oil? Who was the titan of the steel industry?

Answer 2 – 20 John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie

Question 2 - 30 How did Standard Oil eliminate competition?

Answer 2 – 30 Cut prices to drive competitors out of business (then raised them) Received preferential railroad rates (George Rice) Threatened to open competing businesses if a company did not use his oil. (grocery store)

Question 2 - 40 What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

Answer 2 – 40 Outlawed businesses that acted in restraint of interstate commerce.

Question 2 - 50 Who was known as the “Commodore?”

Answer 2 – 50 Vanderbilt.

Question 3 - 10 What did Samuel Gompers think that unions should advocate for?

Answer 3 – 10 Pure and simple unionism – bread and butter issues Wages, working hours, and working conditions

Question 3 - 20 Which organization disappeared as a result of the violence during the Haymarket Affair? Which organization rose to prominence shortly thereafter?

Answer 3 – 20 Knights of Labor AFL

Question 3 - 30 What happened during the Homestead Strike?

Answer 3 – 30 Steel workers on strike Henry Clay Frick Violence Union broken – workers lose

Question 3 - 40 What was the Pullman Strike?

Answer 3 – 40 George Pullman raised rent but not wages. Sympathy Strike – Railroad workers. Railroad companies attached U.S. Mail cars to trains. Federal troops break the strike on the orders of President Grover Cleveland.

Question 3 - 50 What was the main difference between the Knights of Labor and the AFL?

Answer 3 – 50 The Knights of Labor supported a “cooperative commonwealth” in which the workers owned the means of production. The AFL believed in working within the capitalist system to achieve their goals.

Question 4 - 10 The belief that the United States had a special mission to expand over the entire North American continent was known as

Answer 4 – 10 Manifest Destiny “You can’t stop it and neither can I!”

Question 4 - 20 What “profitable” action by whites on the Great Plains made it much more difficult for Native Americans to survive?

Answer 4 – 20 Destruction of the buffalo (bison) herds.

Question 4 - 30 Why did people “people” out west?

Answer 4 – 30 A number of reasons but mostly: Economic Opportunity

Question 4 - 40 How did the government incentivize western migration?

Answer 4 – 40 Homestead Act – must describe. Pacific Railway Act – must describe.

Question 4 - 50 What impact did the Dawes Act have on Indian tribes?

Answer 4 – 50 Ended tribal identities through assimilation.

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