Iron Horse Apush Essay
Iron horse: locomotive
Central Pacific: RR between California and Utah
Union Pacific: premiere RR franchise
Interstate Commerce Act: In 1887, Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act which created the Interstate Commerce Commission, the first true federal regulatory agency. It was designed to address the issues of railroad abuse and discrimination and required the following: * Shipping rates had to be "reasonable and just" * Rates had to be published * Secret rebates were outlawed * Price discrimination against small markets was made illegal
Interstate Commerce Commission: regulating the rates and services of specified carriers
Vertical Integration: the control of all aspects of production from the mining of raw …show more content…
The Bessemer Process: The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron
The Gospel Of Wealth: Andrew Carnegie wrote this about the responsibilities of the wealth and how they should help the poor help themselves
Social Darwinism: notion of survival of the fittest, eliminating the unfit benefits the society, people who are poor have a deficiency in their gene pool
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR (AFL): SAMUEL GOMPERS, skilled workers only, bread and butter improvements only, they demanded less and were conservative
Haymarket Square: Chicago wanted an 8 hour work day, bomb went off and civilians and officers were killed, caused downfall of knights of labor because one of the suspects had a knights of labor card
Knights of Labor: TERRENCE V POWDERLY, included blacks and women, bread and butter improvements and long term political reform
Industrial Workers of the World/ Wobblies: very radical, anarchists, socialists, communists, violence was justified to overthrow capitalism BIG BILL HAYWOOD
National Labor Union: short lived effort to create a national organization
Yellow Dog Contract: a labor contract (now illegal) whereby the employee agrees not to join a trade
Central Pacific: RR between California and Utah
Union Pacific: premiere RR franchise
Interstate Commerce Act: In 1887, Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act which created the Interstate Commerce Commission, the first true federal regulatory agency. It was designed to address the issues of railroad abuse and discrimination and required the following: * Shipping rates had to be "reasonable and just" * Rates had to be published * Secret rebates were outlawed * Price discrimination against small markets was made illegal
Interstate Commerce Commission: regulating the rates and services of specified carriers
Vertical Integration: the control of all aspects of production from the mining of raw …show more content…
The Bessemer Process: The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron
The Gospel Of Wealth: Andrew Carnegie wrote this about the responsibilities of the wealth and how they should help the poor help themselves
Social Darwinism: notion of survival of the fittest, eliminating the unfit benefits the society, people who are poor have a deficiency in their gene pool
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR (AFL): SAMUEL GOMPERS, skilled workers only, bread and butter improvements only, they demanded less and were conservative
Haymarket Square: Chicago wanted an 8 hour work day, bomb went off and civilians and officers were killed, caused downfall of knights of labor because one of the suspects had a knights of labor card
Knights of Labor: TERRENCE V POWDERLY, included blacks and women, bread and butter improvements and long term political reform
Industrial Workers of the World/ Wobblies: very radical, anarchists, socialists, communists, violence was justified to overthrow capitalism BIG BILL HAYWOOD
National Labor Union: short lived effort to create a national organization
Yellow Dog Contract: a labor contract (now illegal) whereby the employee agrees not to join a trade