What is a corporation Business owned by investors
![What is a corporation? Business owned by investors who buy shares of stock. What is a corporation? Business owned by investors who buy shares of stock.](https://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-1.jpg)
What is a corporation? Business owned by investors who buy shares of stock.
![Key terms dealing with corporations? • Capital • Stockholder • dividend • Money to Key terms dealing with corporations? • Capital • Stockholder • dividend • Money to](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-2.jpg)
Key terms dealing with corporations? • Capital • Stockholder • dividend • Money to invest • Share in a corporation (partial ownership) • Owner of stock (partial owner of a company) • Payment to stockholder from a corporations profit
![So why do you invest in a corporation? To make money – either through So why do you invest in a corporation? To make money – either through](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-3.jpg)
So why do you invest in a corporation? To make money – either through the price of your stock going up and then you sell it for a profit or through dividends.
![Key terms dealing with railroads? • network • consolidate • System of connected lines Key terms dealing with railroads? • network • consolidate • System of connected lines](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-4.jpg)
Key terms dealing with railroads? • network • consolidate • System of connected lines • When companies combine • rebates • Discounts to large customers • pool • Several railroad companies divide up business and agree to charge high rates
![What do we need to know about the steel industry? • Leading company • What do we need to know about the steel industry? • Leading company •](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-5.jpg)
What do we need to know about the steel industry? • Leading company • Leading individual • U. S. Steel • Andrew Carnegie • Name of process for making cheap and strong steel • Bessemer Process
![Important individuals in the rise of big business? • J. P. Morgan • Andrew Important individuals in the rise of big business? • J. P. Morgan • Andrew](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-6.jpg)
Important individuals in the rise of big business? • J. P. Morgan • Andrew Carnegie • Leading banker • U. S. Steel (Steel Industry) • John D. Rockefeller • Standard Oil (Oil Industry) • Cornelius Vanderbilt • Steamships and railroads
![What do Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt all have in common? • Started as poor What do Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt all have in common? • Started as poor](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-7.jpg)
What do Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt all have in common? • Started as poor people • Became filthy rich • Gave away most of their profits to projects benefiting society
![Important terms for big business. • Trust • monopoly • Group of corporations run Important terms for big business. • Trust • monopoly • Group of corporations run](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-8.jpg)
Important terms for big business. • Trust • monopoly • Group of corporations run by a single board of directors. • Company that controls all of an industry. • Free enterprise system • Businesses that are owned by private citizens. Companies compete by making the nest products at the lowest price.
![Inventors and inventions you need to know: • • • Sleeping car • telephone Inventors and inventions you need to know: • • • Sleeping car • telephone](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-9.jpg)
Inventors and inventions you need to know: • • • Sleeping car • telephone • phonograph • Light bulb • Automated assembly • line (allowed for mass production) George Pullman Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison Henry Ford
![Knights of Labor • Terence Powderly • 1869 -1886 • Very idealistic (create a Knights of Labor • Terence Powderly • 1869 -1886 • Very idealistic (create a](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-10.jpg)
Knights of Labor • Terence Powderly • 1869 -1886 • Very idealistic (create a perfect workplace all at once) • Not for strikes • Haymarket Riot brought about its end
![American Federation of Labor (AFL) • • • Samuel Gompers 1886 Union of skilled American Federation of Labor (AFL) • • • Samuel Gompers 1886 Union of skilled](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-11.jpg)
American Federation of Labor (AFL) • • • Samuel Gompers 1886 Union of skilled worker unions Baby steps to improve the workplace Supported strikes
![Labor terms you need to know: • strike • injunction • Scabs • boycott Labor terms you need to know: • strike • injunction • Scabs • boycott](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-12.jpg)
Labor terms you need to know: • strike • injunction • Scabs • boycott • Refusal to work • Court order to go back to work • Workers who replaced strikers (very unpopular) • Refusal to buy a company’s goods
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What was the importance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire tragedy? It led to safer working conditions in factories.
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What factors made people leave their country and become immigrants? (Push Factors) • No land • Religious persecution • Political persecution • No jobs
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What factors made people become immigrants to the U. S. ? (Pull Factors) • • • Cheap / free land Religious freedom Political freedom - democracy Jobs in factories Family already established in the U. S.
![What are theories of how immigrants assimilated or blended in with the American culture? What are theories of how immigrants assimilated or blended in with the American culture?](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-16.jpg)
What are theories of how immigrants assimilated or blended in with the American culture? • Salad Bowl theory – people adopted much of the American culture while maintaining their own traditions. • Melting Pot – Everyone adopted the exact same American culture.
![Anti-Immigrant terms you need to know: • Chinese Exclusion Act • Stopped Chinese immigration Anti-Immigrant terms you need to know: • Chinese Exclusion Act • Stopped Chinese immigration](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-17.jpg)
Anti-Immigrant terms you need to know: • Chinese Exclusion Act • Stopped Chinese immigration of 1882 • Quota • Set the number of immigrants that could enter the country from a specific nation – favored Western European immigrants • Fear of immigrants • xenophobia
![Anti-Immigrant groups you need to know: • Know-Nothing Party • Party against Catholic immigrants Anti-Immigrant groups you need to know: • Know-Nothing Party • Party against Catholic immigrants](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-18.jpg)
Anti-Immigrant groups you need to know: • Know-Nothing Party • Party against Catholic immigrants • nativists • People against immigrants who they believed were taking their jobs
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What was it called when people were given jobs based upon support rather than qualifications?
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Spoils system
![What are civil service jobs? What are civil service jobs?](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-21.jpg)
What are civil service jobs?
![Government jobs which are not elected or part of the military. Government jobs which are not elected or part of the military.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-22.jpg)
Government jobs which are not elected or part of the military.
![How was the spoils system reformed? How was the spoils system reformed?](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-23.jpg)
How was the spoils system reformed?
![The Civil Service Commission was formed. It was responsible for filling government jobs. People The Civil Service Commission was formed. It was responsible for filling government jobs. People](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-24.jpg)
The Civil Service Commission was formed. It was responsible for filling government jobs. People had to take the civil service exam to be eligible for jobs.
![How were trusts and monopolies reformed? How were trusts and monopolies reformed?](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-25.jpg)
How were trusts and monopolies reformed?
![The Sherman Antitrust Act forbade trusts although it was used against unions at first. The Sherman Antitrust Act forbade trusts although it was used against unions at first.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-26.jpg)
The Sherman Antitrust Act forbade trusts although it was used against unions at first.
![My political cartoons were aimed at reforming city governments. Who was I? My political cartoons were aimed at reforming city governments. Who was I?](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-27.jpg)
My political cartoons were aimed at reforming city governments. Who was I?
![Thomas Nast Thomas Nast](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-28.jpg)
Thomas Nast
![What were newspaper reporters who exposed corruption called? What were newspaper reporters who exposed corruption called?](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-29.jpg)
What were newspaper reporters who exposed corruption called?
![muckrakers muckrakers](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-30.jpg)
muckrakers
![I was a leading boss. Thomas Nast targeted me with his cartoons. I was a leading boss. Thomas Nast targeted me with his cartoons.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-31.jpg)
I was a leading boss. Thomas Nast targeted me with his cartoons.
![William “Boss” Tweed William “Boss” Tweed](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-32.jpg)
William “Boss” Tweed
![I was a muckraker who targeted big businesses. I was a muckraker who targeted big businesses.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-33.jpg)
I was a muckraker who targeted big businesses.
![Ida Tarbell Ida Tarbell](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-34.jpg)
Ida Tarbell
![My book How the Other Half Lives featuring photographs of city living conditions helped My book How the Other Half Lives featuring photographs of city living conditions helped](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-35.jpg)
My book How the Other Half Lives featuring photographs of city living conditions helped improve living conditions in tenements.
![Jacob Riis Jacob Riis](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-36.jpg)
Jacob Riis
![The Declaration of Sentiments was written at this women’s rights meeting in 1848. The Declaration of Sentiments was written at this women’s rights meeting in 1848.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-37.jpg)
The Declaration of Sentiments was written at this women’s rights meeting in 1848.
![Seneca Falls Convention Seneca Falls Convention](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-38.jpg)
Seneca Falls Convention
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These two women led the National Women’s Suffrage Association – a group that wanted to amend the Constitution so women can vote.
![Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-40.jpg)
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
![What does suffrage mean? What does suffrage mean?](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-41.jpg)
What does suffrage mean?
![The right to vote The right to vote](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-42.jpg)
The right to vote
![What amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920? What amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-43.jpg)
What amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?
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th 19 Amendment
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Who was known as the trustbusting president?
![Teddy Roosevelt Teddy Roosevelt](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-46.jpg)
Teddy Roosevelt
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What did Teddy Roosevelt think about trusts?
![Some trusts were good and should be left alone while others were bad and Some trusts were good and should be left alone while others were bad and](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-48.jpg)
Some trusts were good and should be left alone while others were bad and should be broken up.
![What was Teddy Roosevelt’s plan where all people should have an equal opportunity to What was Teddy Roosevelt’s plan where all people should have an equal opportunity to](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-49.jpg)
What was Teddy Roosevelt’s plan where all people should have an equal opportunity to succeed called?
![Square deal Square deal](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-50.jpg)
Square deal
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The Women’s Christian Temperance Union was against was problem of society?
![The abuse of alcohol. The abuse of alcohol.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-52.jpg)
The abuse of alcohol.
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I was a leader of the W. C. T. U.
![Frances Willard Frances Willard](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-54.jpg)
Frances Willard
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I was a member of the temperance movement who went and destroyed saloons using a hatchet.
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Carry Nation
![What was the result of the temperance movement? What was the result of the temperance movement?](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-57.jpg)
What was the result of the temperance movement?
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th 18 Amendment (1919) which prohibited the sale of st alcohol. The 21 Amendment got rid of this amendment.
![I was a muckraker who exposed the meatpacking industry with my novel The Jungle. I was a muckraker who exposed the meatpacking industry with my novel The Jungle.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-59.jpg)
I was a muckraker who exposed the meatpacking industry with my novel The Jungle. The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed as a result of my work.
![Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-60.jpg)
Upton Sinclair
![I was known as the conservationist president. I was known as the conservationist president.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-61.jpg)
I was known as the conservationist president.
![Teddy Roosevelt Teddy Roosevelt](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-62.jpg)
Teddy Roosevelt
![Gifford Pinchot and John Muir were associated with this movement to save the environment. Gifford Pinchot and John Muir were associated with this movement to save the environment.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-63.jpg)
Gifford Pinchot and John Muir were associated with this movement to save the environment.
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conservation
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I founded Tuskegee Institute. I accepted segregation and believed that by becoming educated African Americans could improve their lives.
![Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-66.jpg)
Booker T. Washington
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This organization worked for African American rights.
![NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-68.jpg)
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
![Who was the leading African scientist who specialty was finding uses for peanuts and Who was the leading African scientist who specialty was finding uses for peanuts and](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-69.jpg)
Who was the leading African scientist who specialty was finding uses for peanuts and peanut products?
![George Washington Carver George Washington Carver](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-70.jpg)
George Washington Carver
![What leader urged African Americans to fight discrimination? What leader urged African Americans to fight discrimination?](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-71.jpg)
What leader urged African Americans to fight discrimination?
![W. E. B. Du. Bois W. E. B. Du. Bois](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h2/2526e275f0d43fd74c4c25dca634739e/image-72.jpg)
W. E. B. Du. Bois
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