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DBQ: Gilded Age Flashback Flashcards

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Soft money or hard money ?

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Hard money (coins) have more value than paper money

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Vanderbilt

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Railroad

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Carnegie

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Steel

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Jim Crow laws

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Laws the segregated the blacks and whites

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Knights of labor

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Labor union that welcomed both skilled and unskilled workers

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Silver or gold?

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Gold has more value

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Urbanization–>

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Tenements, skyscrapers, department stores etc.

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AF of L (American Federation of Labor)

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Federation of craft labor & was led by Samuel Gompers

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Fisk & Gould

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Business partners who bid on the price of gold

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Plessy vs Ferguson

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Led to segregation in the South under the 14 Amendment

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Louis Sullivan

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Created the idea of skyscrapers

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Social gospel

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Church solves social problems

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Morgan

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Banker

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Inventions

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Trains, shampoo, telephone etc.

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Credit Mobilier

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Inflated prices to build railroad; scandal in Grants cabinet

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Social Darwinism

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Survival of the fittest

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Political bosses

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In turn for votes they provided jobs

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Laissez faire

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When government doesn’t mess with businesses

18
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Rockefeller

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Oil

19
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Birds of passage

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Immigrants who came to America (to work) and then left and went back to their country

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Politics

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Less presidential power, no major difference in political parties

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Whiskey ring

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Robbed treasury of million in tax on whiskey

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Political machine

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Boss Tweed

23
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New what?

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Art, literature, and a wider range of book genres (sensual, horror, realism etc.)

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Nativist

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American who disliked immigrants

25
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Yellow-dog contract

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Agreement not to join a labor union

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