Gilded Age Vocab Practice

Taylorism

• Assembly-Line Manufacturing

• Cutting wages to raise profits

• Mass producing fabric

• Punching guys named Taylor (they know what they did)

Incorporation

• A company selling shares of that company

• Two businesses merging into one

• Bringing in non-union workers to replace workers on strike

• Being inside a corporation

Knights of Labor

• The 1st major union

• A private company that protected businesses from strikes

• An angry mob that wanted overthrow a monopoly in Tulsa, OK.

• Gallant warriors searching for the mythical Excal-labor

Liability

• Legal Fault for business damages

• Writing slander about a public figure in the news

• A member of a union who is considered weak or a potential snitch

• The ability to Lie

Capital

• The money required to run a business

• The head of a monopoly

• The source of a business' revenue

• The main seat of government in a state or nation

Gilded

• A cheap metal covered in a thin layer of an expensive metal

• The process used to mass produce steel

• The Gills from fish that are not alive

• To lose one's true love to the greatest loss of all: Money

Monopoly

• When a company is the only one that sells or produces a good or series of goods

• One single Rolly Poly

• A powerhouse of industry that exist to engage in healthy, fair competition.

• A very very long board game.

Social Darwinism

• The belief that people are all competing for survival. Only the most fit for society will survive.

• The belief that Charles Darwin was terrible in social situations, and that's why he married his cousin.

• The belief that Galapagos turtles are secretly the basis for all industry and growth in the world.

• The belief that all people, regardless of circumstances, will adapt to their surroundings and find their environmental niche.

Union

• Organization of workers that use their numbers when bargaining with management

• A cooperative harmony between workers and business owners, with each looking out for the other.

• When a bunch of workers join together to fight monsters, Voltron-Style.

• The opposite of an ion.

Strike

• Workers refusing to work in order to negotiate for better conditions, hours, or pay

• Workers doubling their shifts to earn a longer break later

• Workers going to their boss' office and literally beating him to death

• Workers having fun bowling. (Three Consecutive Strikes is a Turkey!)