Industrialization and Segregation

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Industrialization and Segregation
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• For what did AF of L stand?
• American Federation of Labor

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• What are two advantages of a corporation?
• 1) Raise capital 2) Limited Liability

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• For what type of business was J.P. Morgan known?
• Finance

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• In what major strike in the 1890s was the
  American Railway Union involved?
• The Pullman Strike

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• What labor union was involved in the 1892
  Homestead Steel Strike?
• The AF of L (American Federation of Labor)

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• Who invented the electric light bulb?
• Thomas Edison

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• With what industry was Andrew Carnegie
  associated?
• Steel

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• Who was president of the American Railway Union
  at the time of the Pullman Strike?
• Eugene V. Debs

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• With what industry was John D. Rockefeller
  associated?
• Oil

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• What was another name for segregation laws?
• Jim Crow Laws

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• With what industry was Cornelius Vanderbilt
  associated?
• Railroads

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• Who invented the telephone?
• Alexander Graham Bell

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• What 18th century Scottish philosopher developed
  the laissez faire economic theory?
• Adam Smith

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• Who wrote Wealth of Nations?
• Adam Smith

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• What type of education did Booker T. Washington
  advocate (call for/support) for
  African-Americans?
• Vocational education

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• How did the Supreme Court rule in 1896 in the
  case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
• Racial segregation was constitutional (legal).

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• What doctrine was established by the Supreme
  Courts decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?
• The Separate But Equal Doctrine

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• Who was the founder of the A F of L?
• Samuel Gompers

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• What union was blamed for the 1886 Haymarket Riot
  in Chicago?
• The Knights of Labor

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• What does racial segregation mean?
• Separation of the races

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• What industry was made more efficient by the
  development of the Bessemer process?
• Steel

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• What is a labor union?
• An organization of workers

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• What does laissez faire mean?
• An economic philosophy that says government
  should leave business alone let business do what
  it wants. Government should neither help nor
  hinder business.

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• With what invention were the Wright Brothers
  associated?
• The airplane

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• For what does NAACP stand?
• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People

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• Who developed the conveyor belt assembly line for
  the manufacture of automobiles?
• Henry Ford

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• What were three ideas in Booker T. Washingtons
  philosophy for the advancement of
  African-Americans?
• 1) Vocational Education 2) Self-Help 3)
  Economic Success

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• What were W.E.B. DuBois ideas for the
  advancement of African-Americans?
• Legal Rights and Political Equality for
  African-Americans NOW!

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What African-American woman led an anti-lynching
crusade during the first part of the 20th century?

• Ida B. Wells

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• Which side did government take in both the
  Haymarket Riot and the Pullman Strike? Big
  Business or Labor?
• Big Business

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• Who won the Pullman Strike? The Pullman Company
  or the American Railway Union
• the Pullman Company

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• Which 19th century American labor union has
  survived until the present day?
• The A F of L. Today it is known as the AFL-CIO.