Unit 7: Gilded Age Review

An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

• Strike

• Labor Union

• Lockout

An organized work stoppage intended to force an employer to address union demands

• Strike

• Labor Union

• Lockout

A company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter its facilities to work

• Strike

• Labor Union

• Lockout

A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products- Example= Netflix now creates their original shows and movies. 

• Horizontal Integration 

• Vertical Integration 

• Push factors

• Pull Factors

A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region

• Horizontal Integration 

• Vertical Integration 

• Push factors

• Pull Factors

Factors that attract people to move to a new location

• Horizontal Integration 

• Vertical Integration 

• Push factors

• Pull Factors

A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors- Example= McDonald's buys Burger King and Wendy's. 

• Horizontal Integration 

• Vertical Integration 

• Push factors

• Pull Factors

Chinese Exclusion Act

• A theory that the rich are rich because they’re better, and the poor are poor because they’re worse

• Placed very few restrictions on how businesses were run

• Anti-immigration sentiments among Americans who feared losing their jobs to immigrants

• Prohibited work-seeking Chinese from entering the U.S.

Social Darwinism

• A theory that the rich are rich because they’re better, and the poor are poor because they’re worse

• Placed very few restrictions on how businesses were run

• Anti-immigration sentiments among Americans who feared losing their jobs to immigrants

• Prohibited work-seeking Chinese from entering the U.S.

Nativism

• A theory that the rich are rich because they’re better, and the poor are poor because they’re worse

• Placed very few restrictions on how businesses were run

• Anti-immigration sentiments among Americans who feared losing their jobs to immigrants

• Prohibited work-seeking Chinese from entering the U.S.