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Tactics Businesses used

vertical integration - control each step of process, horizontal integration - joined firms from the same industry, yellow dog contracts - sign to never join union, blacklists - prevent union workers from working, (eliminate rivals, lower labor costs and get better profits)

Tactics of union workers

Strikes, collective bargaining, boycotts, slowdowns

How trusts hurt the US economy

Inflated prices and got rid of smaller businesses, ruining the market competition and giving all the power to a few big corporations.

2 problems created by urbanization

Horrible living conditions such as poor sanitation, overcrowding, disease, fires, basically impoverished working class.

Pullman Strike

The Pullman company fired or cut wages of employees, workers got help by the aru to boycott trains with Pullman cars, unions did not win and aru was shut down, causes the spread of anti union and set back unions.