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Chapters 20-25 Flashcards

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During the gilded age, were the democrats and republicans more different or similar?

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Similar. They had few significant economic differences

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What was the principal target of Thomas Nast’s cartoons?

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Boss Tweeds

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From the end of reconstruction to 1900 what was the position of the Supreme Court on civil rights?

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They established the constitutionality of segregation

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The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v ferguson upheld the segregation of what?

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Railroad facilities

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During reconstruction, what jobs did southern blacks typically have?

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They tilled farms as renters and sharecroppers

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What best describes the urban political machine of the late 19th century?

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Organizations controlled by politicians who dispenses jobs and other patronage in return for political support.

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What did the election of the 1870s and 1880s do?

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Aroused great interest among voters

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What was the 1884 election between James G Blaine and Grover Cleveland noted for?

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It’s personal attacks on the two candidates

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At the end of reconstruction, what did southern whites disenfranchise African Americans with?

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Literacy requirements
Poll taxes
Economic intimidation
Grandfather clauses

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The legal codes that established the system of segregation were called what?

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Jim Crow laws

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What was not implemented by the radical republicans during reconstruction?

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Provisions of 40 acres to each freedman

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The Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education essentially reversed what earlier decision?

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Plessy v ferguson

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How did the early populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers end?

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A racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the south

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Who was Thomas Nast?

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Political cartoonist

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Who was Horace greeley?

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News paper editor and presidential candidate

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Who was Roscoe Conkling?

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U.S. Senator and Stalwart leader

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Who was William Marcy Tweed?

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Corrupt Tammany Hall politician in New York City

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What is not true of railroad expansion in the late 19th century?

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It was financed by private corporations WITHOUT government assistance. (This is not true. Railroads used government assistance)

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What is not associated with the Vanderbilt family?

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Purchase of U.S. Steel

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What industry did Carnegie work in?

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Steel

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What industry did Rockefeller work in?

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Oil

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21
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What industry did Duke work in?

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Tobacco

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What industry did Morgan work in?

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Banking

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What is true of politics in the Gilded age?

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Corrupt politics
Capitalist greed in industry
Extravagant mansions and lavish parties
Child labor in factories and coal mines

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What was the greatest single factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of the post Civil War years?

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Steel industry

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The horizontal integration of American industry (I.e., one firm acquiring control of other firms that produce the same product) that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century was primarily a response to what?

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Economic completions

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The people who found daly with the “captains of industry” mostly argued what?

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These men built their corporate wealth and power by exploiting workers

27
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What is NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT true concerning John D Rockefeller?

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He loaned gold to the U.S. treasury in 1895.

28
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Who said” the good lord gave me my money?”

A

John d Rockefeller

29
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Who said “ the public be damned?”

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William Vanderbilt (the son of Cornelius Vanderbilt)

30
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Who said “ the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced “

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Andrew Carnegie

31
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Who said” give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?”

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Emma Lazarus

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Who said” show me the country in which there are no strikes and I’ll show you that country in which there is no liberty”

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Samuel Gompers

33
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The Supreme Court in the late 19th century interpreted the Constitution to favor what?

A

Corporations

34
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What amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by the state?

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Fourteenth amendment

35
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What group was most affected by the new Industrial Age?

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Women.

36
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What is not true of labor in the late19th century ?

A

Minimum wage and maximum hour laws were widely enacted

37
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Which of these leaders was not a leader in labor movements in the late 19th century century?
Mother jones
Terence Powderly
Samuel Gompers
John L Lewis
A

John L Lewis.

38
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What was the most effective and most enduring labor union of the post civil war era?

A

American Federation of labor

39
Q

The hay market square root represented a major set back for what labor group?

A

Knights of labor

40
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What is true of the American labor movement in the late 19th century?

A

It was involved with several violent strikes

41
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What is true considering the American Federation of labor?

A

It considered the strike its strongest weapon

42
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What is NOT true of events that happened at Ellis Island

A

Last names of immigrants were frequently changed by the immigration officials

43
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Why was there a sharp increase of immigrants from 1880-1910?

A

Many southern and Eastern Europeans turned to American for financial gains and political freedom

44
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The new immigrants who came to the U.S. After 1880 were what?

A

Culturally different from previous immigrants

45
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Why did natives not like the immigrants?

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Practiced different religions
Had different language and cultures
We’re willing to work for lower wages
We’re not familiar with the U.S. Political system

46
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Where did immigrants in the last quarter of the 19th century come from?

A

European farms and villages in east Europe and Italy

47
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Name some famous American Architects

A

Thomas Jefferson
Louis Sullivan
Frank Lloyd wright
Henry Richardson

48
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Who wrote “the gilded age”

A

Mark Twain

49
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Who wrote “Sister Carrie”

A

Theodore Dreiser

50
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Who wrote “o captain my captain”

A

Walt Whitman

51
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Who wrote “principles of psychology “

A

William James

52
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What was primarily responsible for the declining death rate in American cities at the end of the 19th century?

A

Cities built sewers and supplied purified water.

53
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What were W.E.B. DuBois’s objectives?

A

Total enfranchisement of all eligible black citizens
The establishment of an organization to seek the legal redress of black grievances
The establishment of black political power
Cooperation with whites

54
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What did Booker T Washington promote?

A

Black self help but did not challenge segregation

55
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What are associated with WeB Dubois ?

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Niagara movement
The souls of the black folk
NAACP
Talented tenth

56
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What was the disagreement between WEB Du Bois and Booker T Washington regarding the status of African-Americans in the early 20th century?

A

Whether African-Americans should first seek legal or economical equality with white Americans

57
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The talented 10th of American blacks Shoukd lead the race to social and politically equality with whites was the view of whom?

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W E B DuBois

58
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In his 1895 Atlanta exposition speech Booker T. Washington urged African Americans to strive for success through what?

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Education and economic independence

59
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What is not associated with Booker T. Washington?

A

The talented 10th

60
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What is Tamany Hall?

A

The corrupt government of New York

61
Q

The passage of the Pendleton act was a direct result of what?

A

Garfield’s assassination

62
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What caused the United States to change ticket to standard time zones

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The railroads demanding a better time frame

63
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“The growth of the large business is merely the survival of the fittest “is attributed to what idea

A

Social Darwinism

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