Significance

Read Chapter 14-3 and then identify the significance of each of the following terms / names (pg.447):

Andrew Carnegie: One of the first industrial moguls to make his own fortune.

Social Darwinism: Economists found a way to justify the doctrine laizzes faire ("allow to do").

John D. Rockefeller: Established the Standard Oil Company.

Sherman Antitrust Act: Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries.

Samuel Gompers: Led the Cigar Makers' International Union to join with other craft unions in 1886.

American Federation of Labor (AFL): Focused on collective bargaining, or negotiation between representatives of labor and management, to reach written agreements on wages, and working conditions.

Eugene V. Debs: Attempted to form an industrial union-The American Railway Union.

Industrial Workers of the World: A group made of radical unionists and socialists in Chicago. Included miners, lumberers, and cannery and dock workers. Welcomed African Americans.

Mary Harris Jones: Most prominent organizer in the women's labor movement. Later organized for the United Mine Workers of America.