Andrew Carnegie- after gradually working his way up, Carnegie became an industrial mogul after his boss gave him the opportunity to buy stocks. With his money he supported many charities. He is an example of an American success story.
Social Darwinism- philosophy lading to beliefs that success and failure were governed by natural law and no outside force should have control over it.
John D. Rockefeller- Established the Standard Oil Company. The company went to processing about 3 percent of the countries oil to owning 90 percent of all oil refining companies within a decade. Rockefeller drove competitors out of business by lowering prices to less than t cost to make it and then hiking them up when the competition was gone. Despite this he had donated over 500 million dollars to charity.
Sherman Antitrust Act-in 1890 this act made it illegal to establish trust that interfered with free trade between states or between other countries.
Samuel Gompers- led the cigar market's international trade union to join with other craft unions in 1886. Was also president of The American Federation of Labor.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Eugene V. Debs- attempted to form an industrial union, the American Railway Union. In 1894 the union won a strike for higher wages.
Industrial Workers of the World- was composed of miners, lumberers, cannery and dock workers. It welcomed african americans although it never became as big as the ARU. They one only one major strike in 1912. Also called the Wobblies.
Mary Harris Jones-supported the great strike of 1877 and later organized the UNited MIne Workers of America. She was in jail with coal miners and had had her life threatened by people before. In 1903 she took a group of 80 child mill workers who had been disfigured in their work to the white house to see president Rosevelt, which helped to pass child labor laws.
Samuel Gompers- led the cigar market's international trade union to join with other craft unions in 1886. Was also president of The American Federation of Labor.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Eugene V. Debs- attempted to form an industrial union, the American Railway Union. In 1894 the union won a strike for higher wages.
Industrial Workers of the World- was composed of miners, lumberers, cannery and dock workers. It welcomed african americans although it never became as big as the ARU. They one only one major strike in 1912. Also called the Wobblies.
Mary Harris Jones-supported the great strike of 1877 and later organized the UNited MIne Workers of America. She was in jail with coal miners and had had her life threatened by people before. In 1903 she took a group of 80 child mill workers who had been disfigured in their work to the white house to see president Rosevelt, which helped to pass child labor laws.
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