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Gilded Age Flashcards

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Agricultural Revolution

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Advancements in technology and methods
Fueled by migration of workers from country to cities

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Industrial Revolution

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A period of economic transformation
Advancements:
Materials - Iron & Steel
New Energy - Coal, Electricity, Steam Engine, etc.
Rise of factories & cities
Transportation & Communication - Cars, telegraph, etc.

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The Factory System

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Manufacturing in factories with machinery and division of labor
Mass production of goods by unskilled labor

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Gilded Age America

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Too place between Civil War and the start of the 20th century
It appeared to have many successes and advancements of industrialization and a booming economy
There was a lot of corruption, abuse, and racism

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Transcontinental Railroad

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Railroad that connected the west coast to the east coast
Difficult and hazardous construction and made westward expansion easier

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Golden Spike Ceremony

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Ceremony where they put a golden Spike when they finished building the transcontinental railroad

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Homestead Act of 1862

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Designed to promote westward expansion
Citizens could claim 160 acres of land
Must farm land for 5 years, build home, and pay $1.25 per acre
Provided opportunities for women and African Americans
Heightened tensions with Indigenous tribes

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Urbanization

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Factories led to larger cities
Shift from farming to business
Rapid growth of cities=unsanitary and unsafe conditions

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Dangers of Factories

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Long days and low wages
Dangerous Conditions
Triangle Shirtwaist Company-146 workers died bc there was no escape due to neglecting safety protocals

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Jacob Riis

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Muckracker
Author of How the Other Half Lives

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Upton Sinclair & “The Jungle”

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Wrote “The Jungle” to illustrate poor quality of factories on their workers and their products

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Patents

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Legal document that gives an inventory exclusive rights to produce and sell their inventions
Lasts 20 years

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Age of the Entrepreneur

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Small groups of businessmen amassed great wealth while workers struggled
Risked capital to invest and solidify their place in the market

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Robber Baron vs Captain of Industry

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RB-entrepreneur who made excessive amounts of money, at expenses of their workers
CI-entrepreneur characterizes by leadership and innovation often participated in philanthropy

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Monopoly

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Large companies that controlled entire industry which allows them to set prices and to not have competition

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The Homestead Strike

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Contract expired with factory
While they were strikes, Pinkerton, independent police force, attacked strikers

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The 1886 Haymarket Affair

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Protest against police brutality against protesting workers
Rising tensions between Unions and workers and surrounding immigrants

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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First measure to ban monopolistic business
Trying to restore competiton
Overturned later

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Formation & Purpose of Unions

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Unions are formed between workers of the company or who perform the safe job
Strength in #s, job security, could strike

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Nativism

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Believe that “Native-Born” Americans’ interests should be prioritized over those immigrants

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Chinese Exclusion Acts

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Chinese workers were essential to the transcontinental railroad but were forced to work less than whites
Villanizing Chinatown
So banned immigration of Chinese immigrants

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Immigration Act of 1924

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Cap on immigration to the US based on 2% of total # of people of each nationality in the US of the 1890 census
Excluded immigrants from Asia
Goal of presenting the ideal of an American identity

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Bison Genocide

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Natives dependent on bison
They were an obstacle to Westward expansion
Killed 30-60 million bison

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“Peace Policy” of 1869“

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Ulysses S. Grant wanted to assimilate Natives
Placing Natives on reservations
Christian missionaries spread religion

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Dawes Act of 1887

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Divided reservation land into individual allotments (homes)-Natives only given small portions of original land and the gov. sold the rest
Goal of disrupting tribal collectivism
Land would be held in trust for 25 years (couldn’t sell)
155 million acres in 1881 to 77 million acres owned in 1900

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School

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Schools designed to “Americanize” Native Americans

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Wounded Knee Massacre

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Massacre of the Lakota people trying to assimilate them and break them up from their collectivism culture

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Progressivism

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Support for or advocacy of social reforms
Progressive Era in the US history
Response to Reconstruction and Industrialization

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Goals of the Progressive Era

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End political corruption
Fix sanitation problems
Establish environmental protections
Increase workers’ rights

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