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| the leader who formd the American Railway Union an industrial uion of skilled and unskilled workers |
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| the process in which a company buys out or controls all of its competitors and thus become a monopoly |
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| scottish immigrant millionair who became rich in the steel and railroad business |
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| term that refers to an economic system where private individuals own all means of production. private ownership of businesses. |
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| Theory that justified the success of the rich and said that the rich were the fittest. |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| craft union that was limited to skilld white workers who focues on collective baraining to reach agreements on wages andhours and used the strike as a major tactic |
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| Union that died out after the strikes of the 1870s,1880s, and 1890s becaue the public turned againt the unions even though it did not like to use the strike as a major tactic |
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| wealthy leader of standard oil who created the trust as a way for his company to ctrl the oil industry in the U.s |
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| term that describes a person who becomes very wealthy through unethical or illegal business practices such as paying workers very low wages |
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| strike that occurs when railway workers in the company town have their wages cut, but the cost of their housins stay the same. |
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| the economic system in which the govt ctrl the major means of production, distribution and exchange of goods and services in order to create a more equal distribution of wealth |
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| leader of the american federation of labor |
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| union organizer who also fought against the cruelties of child labor and led a childrens march to protest their work condition and injries on the job. |
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| McCormick company strike in the Chicago that results in the violence after the police brutality and a bomb kills police and workers |
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| no one should regulate business or "save busines from going under" which is also based off the theory of darwinism "survival of the fittest" |
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