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Gilded Age/Progressive Flashcards

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1
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What term was coined by Mark Twain?

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Glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath

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What were the 7 things of the period?

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Greed scandal and corruption in government and industry
Unprecedented economic growth/exploded
Modern Industrial economy
Moved from an agrarian (rural) society to an industrial urban society
USA becomes an emerging world power
Mass Immigration
Unequal distribution of wealth- HAVES and HAVE NOTS

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Who owned 50% of the wealth?

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Less than 1% of the population (4,000 families)

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4
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Closest the USA ever came to an aristocracy of the elite

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YEAH

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Why did the immigrants come?

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To escape religious persecution

To escape poverty

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What was the promise of a better life?

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Golden door

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What was the Journey to America?

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Steamboats- 2 weeks from Europe
2 months from Asia
Steerage Class (3rd) Lowest decks-$30

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Where did most immigrants land in?

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NYC or San Francisco

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What was the symbol of opportunity and freedom in 1886?

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Statue of Liberty

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Who was Emma Lazarus?

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American Poet on the Statue of Liberty

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Where is Ellis Island?

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NYC

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Where is Angel Island?

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San Francisco

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13
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Between 1870-1920 how many people came to America?

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20 million

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What were the 3 steps in processing and how long did it take?

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Physical examination
Record names/ questioning
Documents checked (passports, etc) and legal requirements checked

1day

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Why did most settle in the cities?

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For jobs

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What were the communities known as?

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Ethnic Islands (same ethnic groups)

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17
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What were most immigrants (job wise)

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Unskilled common laborers

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18
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What were sweatshops?

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Dark crowded unsafe factories in the clothing industry

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What were immigrants expected to do?

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Assimilate (become like) the rest of the American society

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What was the melting pot theory

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Give up culture and blend in- children assimilated faster

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What are Old Immigrants?

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Those who came from Great Britain and Northern Europe and they were Protestant

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What are WASPS?

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White Anglo- Saxon Protestants

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What are New Immigrants?

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Southern Europe and Asia

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Why weren’t New Immigrants welcomed at first?

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They didn’t fit in
Job competition 
Religious differences 
Ethnic differences 
Racial differences
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What was the Anti Immigrant backlash?

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Immigrant Restriction- League 1894

Wanted to restrict immigration

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What was Nativism?

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An anti immigrant movement that swept through America

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27
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What was the American Party

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Know nothing- politics party designed to restrict and stop immigration

28
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What were NINA signs?

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No Irish need apply because they were catholic

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What was the Chinese Exclusion Act? (1882)

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Stopped Chinese immigration for 30 years

30
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What was the Gentlemen’s Agreement (1908)

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Limited the number of Japanese immigrants to America

31
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What was the Immigration Act of 1917

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Required them to be able to read or write before they could enter the country

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What was the immigration contribution?

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Provided workers for the Industrialization of America
Enriched America with unique customs, culture, language and literature
Creative entrepreneurial talents (business)

33
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What was the urbanization of America?

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Movement of people from the rural/ country to the urban/city

2/3rds of immigrants moved into the cities

34
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What was life like in housing in the urban city? HAVE + HAVE NOTS? Middle class vs Rich?

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Working class poor- HAVE NOTS
Dumbbell Tenements (multi family dwellings) overcrowded and unsanitary 
Middle class- row houses
Rich- Huge homes (30+ rooms)
HAVES- Extreme wealth
35
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What was Transportation like?

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Mass Transit (designed to move large groups of people)
Streetcars
Subways- 1st in Boston

36
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What was the water like?

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Drinking in rivers, lakes and pipes

Indoor plumbing was rare

37
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What was sanitation like?

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Street Sweepers (trash, manure, etc)
Cholera Typhoid very common in the summer
1st Sewer lines by 1900 sanitation department

38
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What was Crime like?

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Pick pockets and thieves

NYC 1st police force

39
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What was Fire like?

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Wooden building stacked on top of each other
Limited water
Candles and Kerosene lanterns
Cincinnati OH- 1st dept.

40
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What was the factory working conditions?

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12hr day low pay (1$ per day) dangerous conditions and child labor

41
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What were Political Machines?

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An organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in the city by providing services to people and businesses in exchange for votes

42
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What was Graft?

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Illegal use of political influence for personal gain-money

43
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How did the political machines/ graft work?

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Immigrants stepped off the boat and the machine would get them a job, and a place to stay in exchange for political support (vote)

44
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Who were the most infamous political machines?

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Tammany Hall in NYC- “Tweed Ring”- run by William Tweed (boss tweed)

45
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Who were the 6 corrupt presidents during the time when the US congress and the white house was corrupt?

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Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B Hayes, James Garfield, Chester, Arthur Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Franklin

46
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Who was Thomas Nast?

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Journalist who drew cartoons to expose the corruption of the bosses and robber barons

47
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What was the Modern Industrial Economy fueled by?

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Wealth from war
Modern Machinery
Unlimited Workplace (Immigrants)

48
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What was the linchpin (connected America) made it go?

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Railroads

49
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Who controlled big businesses and created Industrial monopolies ( single seller and controls oils)

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Cornelius Vanderbilt- Railroads 
Andrew Carnegie- Steel
JP Morgan- Banking/finance 
Henry Ford- Automobile
John D. Rockefeller- Oil
50
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Describe Industrial workers? Who made all the profit?

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Working class 
Worked long hours for low wages
Average salary-$1.50/day or $500 per year today $6000

Robber Barons

51
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What was the period towards the end of the gilded age called? And describe it

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The progressive age

Period of reform

52
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Who was Jacob Riis?

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A social reformer journalist photographer who showed how the “other half lived”

53
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What are muckrakers?

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They exposed the evils of society

54
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What were the Reforms?

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Helping the Poor
Improve Working Conditions 
Women’s Suffrage
Alcohol reform Prohibition 
Education Reforms
Child Labor- outlawed
Government corruption 
Ended Business “monopolies”
55
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Who was Washington Gladden?

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Founder of Social Gospel Movement

56
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What was the social gospel movement?

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Preached salvation through service to the poor (Jesus Christ) emulate

57
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What are settlement houses?

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Community centers that provided services to the poor

58
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What is the YMCA (settlement house) and who was it founded by?

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Young Men’s Christian Association

George Williams

59
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Who founded the Salvation Army?

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William Booth

60
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Who founded the Hull House and what was it?

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Jane Addams and place for women

61
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What are Unions?

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Organized to protect workers rights better wages, hours, safer working conditions, child labor laws

62
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What is a strike?

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A stoppage of work (only weapon) to combat robber barons

63
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What are suffragettes? And who are some examples?

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Women who fought for the right to vote

Susan B. Anthony, Lucrecia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul.

64
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When did women get the right to vote?

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1920

65
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When was the alcohol reform prohibition? And what did it do?

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1919-1933

Forbade the sale and the consumption of alcohol

66
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Who was the father of public education?

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Horace Mann

67
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What is a monopoly?

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Single seller/ controls oil

College American History (7 decks)

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