Corruption: Grantism, Populist, Progressive, Gilded Age #7 Flashcards
Republican corruption
no democrats in the way
Grant wins 2nd term
waved the bloody shirt
reform/liberal rep & democrats behind him
Compromise of 1877
Hayes becomes president if..
- no more Reconstruction
- Southern trans-continental RR
Railroad companies: land grants
More than Homestead Act
170million
promote hasty poor construction
corruption
regional monopolies
vertical integration
company would control every stage of the industrial process
US vs EC Knight 1895
Sherman Anti-Trust apply to only commerce. NOT manufacturing
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
Help for the poor was misguided
Gospel of Wealth
Rich know how to use their $$ best
Public works
Rich’s interest
Working women industrial America
young and single
marry–> home
Yellow-dog contracts
agreement not to join a union
contract to get employed
National Labor Union
first
organized ALL workers
urban/rural
skilled/unskilled
Knights of Labor
mixed-race
American Federation of Labor
Practical economic goals
Pullman Strike
Prompt Supreme Court to OK government intervention in strikes
Unions lose power
Eugene V Debs
Street Car Cities
segregate urban workers by income
Frederick Law Olmsted
Central Park
Urban Machines
a crude form of welfare for urban new comers
find jobs and apartments
stole from state gov.
Social Gospel
linked Christianity with the Progressive reform
encourage middle-class Protestants to attack urban problems