Reminder: there are definitions at the bottom of the searchable Constitution provided in your course.
Types of Labor: ·
Artisan or craftsman ·
Skilled labor ·
Unskilled laborer Worker organizations: ·
Industrial union ·
Trade unions ·
Federation of trade unions |
Housing and labor ·
tenement Types of payment to labor: ·
Wages ·
Contract work ·
Piecework Methods used by business
during a Panic (Modern Term – Depression) ·
Layoffs ·
Wage
reductions |
Basic business terms: ·
Capital ·
Labor ·
Machinery ·
Company
towns Company town and labor: 1. Jobs from the company 2. Rent to the company 3. Purchases from the company stores |
Methods used by labor to
try to increase pay and safety (notice death rates) · Unionization ·
Boycott ·
Strike |
Methods used by business if
a strike: ·
Strikebreaker · Lockout ·
Pinkertons |
Methods used for business: ·
Injunction ·
Federal troops ·
State militia ·
Police |
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 Commission – new form, both executive and legislative |
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 |
Economic terms still used: · Legal devices from state government for incorporation and limited liability · Monopoly · Legal devices from government for monopoly o Holding company o Trust · Capital · Capitalism o Industrial o Financial Economic terms prior to 1900: · Panic (current word is Depression) |
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Tensions, trends, and public fears and violence: · Anarchism · Socialism · Violence ·
Lynching ·
Rioting · Anarchist – bombs · Assassination ·
Nativism,
nativist ·
Immigrants ·
Racism |
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Economic terms on monetary
policy and debtors/creditors: ·
“sound”
money – Gold Standard ·
debtor/creditor
differences on monetary policy ·
debt o
Lien o
In
South – crop-lien o
In
Plains – mortgage |
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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 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 |
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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C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2016 |
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History – Dr. Bibus |
Contact Information: |
281.239.1577 or bibusc@wcjc.edu
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Last Updated: |
2016 |
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