Concepts for the 2 Primaries for Chapter 16

1.       Reading from the textbook to help you with the 2 Primaries: Read with care pages 581 and 584 and look at the top of 585 of the Essentials textbook.

2.       Aid to definitions about government: see the bottom of the searchable Constitution provided in Required Concepts.

3.       The list of concepts below does not include all of the items within each list, but predominantly concepts with these primaries

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:

·         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

·         Strike

 

Methods used by business if a strike:

·         Strikebreakers



Methods used for business:

·         Injunction

 

Patterns of Treatment of Labor in the Gilded Age

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

 

Types/parts of legal documents:

·         amendment

·         article

·         Bill of Rights

·         code

·         Constitution

·         law

 

 

 

 

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