Reminder: there are definitions at the bottom of the searchable Constitution provided in your course.
Economic terms: · Monopoly · Legal devices for monopoly from government o Holding company o Trust (greater rights of trustees—such as guardians of widows and orphans) · Incorporation from state and, with it, limited liability · Capital · Capitalism o Industrial o Financial · Commodities · Competition/market-driven o Capitalism favors o Monopoly avoids |
Labor: · Artisan or craftsman · Skilled labor · Unskilled laborer · Piece worker Death rate as a laborer: ·
Varied
with industry ·
Varied
if skilled/unskilled labor Worker organizations: · Industrial union · Trade unions · Federation of unions Methods from labor: ·
Boycott ·
Strike |
Methods from business ·
Firing grievance committee · Strikebreaker or scab · Lockout ·
Building modifications (factory as fortress
and armory) ·
Pinkertons · Injunction · State militia · Police · Bribery of government · Lobbying of government |
Tensions, trends, and public fears and violence: · Anarchism · Socialism · Violence ·
Lynching ·
Rioting · Bombing (in this period by anarchists) · Assassination ·
Nativism,
nativist ·
Immigrants ·
Racism |
Government: · State o Governor o Assembly or legislature · National/federal o President (executive branch) o
Congress (legislative branch) · Judiciary/courts (judiciary branch) o Supreme Court and the Constitution o federal courts o state courts · Commission – new form, both executive and legislative |
Company Towns: Labor in company town pays
the employer for: ·
Rent
of a tenement ·
Food Employer also controls: ·
Administration
of the town (no voting for local
officials of a town) ·
All
buildings ·
All
political organization (See pages 584-585) |
Economic terms on monetary
policy and debtors/creditors: ·
“sound”
money – Gold Standard ·
debtor/creditor
differences on monetary policy ·
debt o
in South – crop-lien o
In
Plains – mortgage |
Panics (meaning of that
word?) and business response: ·
Layoffs ·
Wage
reductions |
Immigrant groups ·
Roman
Catholic ·
Protestants,
varied ·
Jews ·
Immigrants
from South and South eastern Europe and from Russia |
Economic terms on taxes
and tariffs and regional differences ·
Tax ·
Tariff,
different purposes o
Revenue o
Protective ·
Regional
and trade difference in response to protective tariff |
Constitution and civil rights: · assemble “peaceably,” freedom to · speech, freedom of · the press, freedom of · petition, freedom of · jury, trial by |
Types/parts of legal documents: · amendment · article · bill of rights · code · Constitution · law |
Constitution and state
laws on voting: · Vote for representatives - who decides qualifications to vote (unless the qualification is in the Constitution or its amendments) · Vote by representatives in a legislature to determine laws (including taxes) – what decides how many Representatives or Senators? ·
Vote by
electors in the electoral college ·
15th amendment ·
Poll tax ·
Grandfather clause ·
residency |
Constitution and state laws and the individual: · 13th Amendment · “due process” clause in 5th amendment · “due process” clause in 14th amendment · 14th Amendment · Public accommodations · Segregation, legal and the Supreme Court |
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