Types of Labor: · Artisan or craftsman ·
Skilled labor · Unskilled laborer Worker organizations: · *Industrial union · *Trade unions · Federation of trade unions |
Types of payment to labor: · Wages · Contract work · Piecework Methods used by business during a Panic (Modern Term – Depression) ·
Layoffs ·
Wage
reductions Housing and labor ·
tenement |
Basic business terms: · Incorporation · Limited liability ·
Capital ·
Labor ·
Machinery ·
Company
towns |
Methods used by labor to try to increase pay and safety (notice death rates) · *Unionization · *Strike |
Methods used by business if a strike: · *Strikebreakers |
Methods used for business: · *Injunction |
Government - state: · *Governor (executive branch) · Departments (executive branch) – such as the *attorney general · Assembly or legislature (legislative branch) · Judiciary/courts state courts (judiciary branch) |
Government – National/federal: · *President (executive branch) · Departments (executive branch) – such as the *attorney general ·
*Congress
(legislative branch) · Judiciary/courts (judiciary branch) o *Supreme Court and the Constitution o Federal courts |
Constitution and the Bill of 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 |
Gilded Age change in government: · *commission (FYI: 1st used with Interstate commerce) |
Constitution/Gilded Age change: · *due process” (FYI: it is in the *5th and *14th amendment) · *Segregation |
Constitution/Gilded Age change: ·
15th amendment ·
Poll tax |
Movements and violence: · Anarchism · *Socialism · Anarchist – bombs · Assassination |
Movements and violence: ·
Nativism,
nativist ·
Immigrants
·
Rioting |
Movements and violence: ·
Racism
·
Lynching ·
Rioting |
Gilded Age economic developments: · Trust ·
“sound”
money or Gold Standard |
Types of debt by farmers: ·
*lien (South, crop-lien) · *mortgage (Great Plains) |
Economic terms on
taxes/tariffs: ·
Tax ·
Tariff ·
Protective
tariff |
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