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Gilded age Flashcards

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what were the differences between “Old” & “New” immigrants?

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OLD- are from northern/ western Europe
NEW- Southern/ eastern Europe (Italian, Slavic, Asian)

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Why were the “NEW” immigrants not welcomed at first in the U.S?

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1) Job competition
2) Religious differences
3) Cultural differences

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Name 6 characteristics of the Gilded Age…

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1) Greed, scandal, and competition
2) Moved from an agrarian (rual) to industrial (urban) (country to city
3) Unprecedented economic growth/ exploded
4)USA becomes an emerging world power
5) Mass immigration
6)Unequal distribution of wealth
*inequality between the “Haves” & “Have Not’s”

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What did the word “gilded” refer to?

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“Golden on the surface but corrupt underneath”

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Name 5 urban problems cities faced during this time and how they dealt with the problems:

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1) Housing:
Have nots dumbbell tenements. multi family dwellings overcrowded and unsanitary
-Middle class- row houses
-Rich- Big houses
2) Transportation: mass transit designed to move large groups
- street cars/subways 1st in Boston
3) Water-
clean drinking water
-rivers, lakes/ indoor plumbing was rare
4) Sanitation-
-street sweepers
-tuberculosis
- 1st sewer lines by 1900
5) Crime-
pick pockets & thieves
-NYC 1st police force

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Why did immigrants come?

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1) Escape religious and political persecution
2) Escape poverty
3) Start and new life

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What 3 things fueled economic growth during the Gilded age in America?

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1) Wealth form the war
2) Modern machinery
3) Unlimited workforce

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3 reforms brought about during the progressive era:

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1) Political party
-limit power of the industrialist
-reform government corruption
-establish rights for the working class
2) Helping the poor
-communities centers that provided for the poor settlement houses
3)Improving working conditions
- organized to protect workers rights

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compare and contrast to melting pot theory & the mixed salad theory:

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Melting pot theory: they abandon their culture and fully assimilate to American culture
Mixed salad theory: Multicultural society can integrate different cultures while maintaining their separate identities

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Who coined the statement “Golden on the surface but corrupt underneath”

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Mark Twain

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Founder of Hull houses for women/ children

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Jane Addams

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Salvation army founder

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William Booth

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“Young men Christian Association” YMCA

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George Williams

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A social reformer
Journalist/ Photographer
Showed “ How the others lived “

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Jacob Riis

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Auto Mobile

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Henry Ford

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Party of the working class

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Populist Party

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Father of public school education

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Horace Mann

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Founder of the Populist Party

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James Weaver

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Journalist who drew cartoons to expose corruption

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Thomas Nast

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Least corrupt President

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Owned the Steel monopoly

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Andrew Carnegie

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Owned the Railroad Monopoly

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Cornelius Venderbilt

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Owned the Kerosene Oil monopoly

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John D Rockefeller

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Boss Tweed - Made a million dollars illegally

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William Tweed

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Single seller controls all

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Monopoly

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“Have Nots” - industrial workers

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Working Class

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Alliances of Refomers who Protected workers

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Unions

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Stoppage of work - only weapon the working class had against Robber Barons

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Strikes

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Banking/Finance Robber Baron

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JP Morgan

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“Reformers” - They exposed the evils of society

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Muckrakers

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A person who has become rich through ruthless business practice

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Robber Baron

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Multi Family dwellings - overcrowded and unsanitary housing for the working class

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dumbbell tenements

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limited the numbers of Japanese immigration to the U.S.

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Gentlemen’s Agreement (1908)

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“become like”

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Assimilate

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Communities of same ethnic groups

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Ethnic Islands

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Stopped Chinese Immigration for 30 years

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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

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Required immigrants to be able to read and write before the entered the country

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Immigration Act of 1917

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Major immigration center in NY

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Ellis Island

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Statue of Liberty - oppurtunity and freedom

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Golden Door

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The linchpin that connected America

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Railroad

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Industrial Workers

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Proletariat

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American poet

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Emma Lazarus

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A form of government in which Industry is controlled by private owners

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Capitalism

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Illegal to use of political influence for personal gain

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Graft

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Middle class
“very small stay inn”

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Row houses

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Anti-immigrant sentiment

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Nativism

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Moved from country to the city

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Urbanization

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Factoring in the clothing industry

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Sweatshops

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“Know nothing’s” designed to restrict & stop immigration

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American party

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Major immigration center in the west

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Angel Island, San Francisco

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“The Golden Door”
Represented opportunity & freedom

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Statue of liberty

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Transportation
designed to move large groups of people

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Mass Transit

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Inventor of the Lightbulb

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Thomas Edison

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Private business owners

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Bourgeoisie

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