Concepts for Unit 2 (Some continue from Unit 1.)

Types of Labor:

·         Artisan, craftsman, or tradesman

·         Skilled labor

·         Unskilled laborer

 

Worker organizations:

·         *Industrial union

·         Trade unions

·         *Federation of trade unions

·         *Congress of industrial 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:

·         monopoly

 

·         Incorporation

·         Limited liability

 

·         Capital

·         Labor

·         Machinery

Methods used by labor to try to increase pay and safety (notice death rates)

·         Unionization

·         Strike

·         *Sit-down strike

Methods used by business if a strike:

·         Strikebreakers

·         *Arsenal

 

 

Methods used for business:

·         Injunction

Method used for labor:

·         Fair Labor Standards Act – minimum wage/maximum hours

·         National Labor Relations Act

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)
- *House of Representatives
- *Senate

·         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

 

·         *march on Washington

 

Types/parts of legal documents:

·         amendment

·         article

·         Bill of Rights

·         code

·         *Constitution

·         law

Governments – International:

·         League of Nations

·         United Nations

Change in government:

·         *commission (FYI: 1st used with Interstate commerce)

·         ICC, FDA

·         *SEC, AAA, *FDIC, TVA

 

Constitution and civil rights:

·         due process” (FYI: it is in the 5th and 14th amendment)

·         Segregation

Constitution and voting:

·         15th amendment

·         Poll tax

 

Movements about Government:

·         *Anarchism

·         *Socialism

·         *Capitalism

·         *Communism

·         *Fascism

 

·         Assassination

Movements, force, and violence:

·         *Nativism, nativist

·         Immigrants

 

·         Rioting

 

·         Deportation

 

Movements, force, and violence:

·         *Racism

 

·         Lynching

·         Rioting

·         Internment camp

·         Concentration camp

Actions by Governments:

·         Annexation

·         Declaration of war

·         Invasion

·         Surprise attack

Governmental types

·         *Empire

·         Republic

·         Constitutional Monarchy

·         Monarchy

·         Dictatorship

 

Weapons (notice time):

·         Battleship

·         Submarine

·         Poison gas

·         Flame thrower

·         Tank

·         Firebomb

·         Atomic bomb

Economic developments:

·         Trust

·         “sound” money or Gold Standard

·         Consumerism

·         Bank, run on

·         Stock market crash

Types of debt by farmers:

·         lien (South, crop-lien)

·         mortgage (Great Plains)

·         foreclosure

 

Types of debt by consumers:

·         Layaway

·         Credit buying

Widespread use of inventions (notice time):

·         Railroad

·         Trolley

·         Subway

·         Automobile

·         Telephone

·         Phonograph - leisure

·         Radio – leisure – CBS, NBC

·         Movie - leisure

Economic terms on taxes/tariffs:

·         Tax, excise

·         Tax, income

·         Tariff

·         Protective tariff

 

Sports:

·         Baseball

·         Basketball

·         Football

 

 

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