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Ch16 Terms Flashcards

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Shipping entrepreneur

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Cornelius vanderbilt

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2
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Court forbidding an action

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Injunction

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3
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Steel entrepreneur

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Andrew Carnegie

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The philosophy advocates the collective or government ownership of the means of production.

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Socialism

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5
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Developed the theory of natural selection.

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Charles Darwin

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Oil-refining entrepreneur

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John D. Rockefeller

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Midwestern free-silver party that became prominent in the 1890s

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Populist party

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Corrupt New York politician who controlled the Customs House.

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Roscoe Cokling

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9
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Financial entrepreneur

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John Pierpont Morgan

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10
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Reforming president who was assassinated

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James A Garfield

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11
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The South’s tobacco entrepreneur

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James Buchanan Duke

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12
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First Democratic president since the war;championed commerce reform.

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Grover cleveland

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13
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The inventor of the telephone.

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Alexander Graham Bell

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14
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He was a weak president;worked for monopoly reform.

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Benjamin Harrison

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15
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America’s most prolific inventor.

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Thomas Alva Edison

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He built the Great Northern Railroad without any government money or special favors.

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James T. hill

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17
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Labor union leader.

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Samuel Gompers

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18
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He was the leader of the Knights of labor.

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Terrence powderly

19
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The most significant communication achievement during the Gilded Age.

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Telephone

20
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Radical leader of the Socialist party.

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Eugene V. Debs

21
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This tariff was made up of numerous amendments that made the tariff ineffective.

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Mongrel Tariff

22
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Laws and legislation passed in the south that required forced segregation.

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Jim Crowe Laws

23
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Reformed the civil service.

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Chester A. Arthur

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“The Great Commoner” and free-silver crusader.

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William Jennings Bryan

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Southerners hope to economically match the north built on the twin pillars of the two Ts-tobacco & textiles.

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New South

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The theory of evolution,based on the idea of survival of the fittest.

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Darwinism

27
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The earliest significant labor union.

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Knights of Labor

28
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Tariff imposed on higher duties on manufactured and agricultural imports than had any previous tariff in history.

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Mckinley Tariff

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Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens whose work reflected the literary school of realism.

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Mark twain

30
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Winner of the first modern presidential election campaign(1896)

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William Mckinley

31
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Financial collapse that occurred shortly after Cleveland’s inauquration.

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Panic of 93

32
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Why did Rockefeller choose to invest in oil refining rather than the other segments of industry?

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Safe investment

33
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When did the railroad union defied the injunction by the federal ports?

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Pullman Strike

34
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What was the main plank of the populist party platform?

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Free Silver

35
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What are the twin pillars of the New South ?

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Tobacco and textiles

36
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What was the first major trust that became the inspiration for many others?

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Standard oil company

37
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What event discredited the Knights of labor?

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Haymarket Riot

38
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Most prolific writer of gospel song and hymns?

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Fanny Crosby

39
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Why many Americans feared the “New Immigration”?

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Religion being threatened,they would lower the standards of living causing crime and disease,they thought they would take their jobs.

40
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3 causes of American industrial growth after the civil war?

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Population was growing, so more workers, and more needs for things.Government pursued policies that encourage business empowerment, more inventive spirit, new source of power.

41
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What severe depression hit America during Grover Cleveland’s second administration?

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Panic of 93

42
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What was a major cause of American industrial growth during the Gilded Age?

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The population was growing.

43
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What was the most significant goal of the Grange during the 1870’s?

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State regulation of railroad

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