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What is the Gilded Age known as, and what did Gilded mean?

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The Progressive era, and Gilded meant that it was golden on the surface but corrupt underneath

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Who coined the term “Gilded Age”?

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Mark Twain

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What are the 6 characteristics of the Gilded Age?

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  1. Greed, scandal, and corruption in the gov. and industry
  2. Move from Agrarian society to an Industrial society
  3. Unprecedented economic growth
  4. USA becomes an emerging world power
  5. Mass immigration
  6. Unequal distribution of wealth between the “Haves” and “Have Nots”
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What are the 3 reasons as to why people immigrated?

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  1. To escape religious and political persecution
  2. Escape poverty
  3. Start a new life
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What did most immigrants come to the US on?

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Steam Boats

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Where did most immigrants land on?

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New York if they came from Europe and San Francisco if they came from Asia

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What was the “Golden Gate” that welcomes the immigrants in New York?

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The Statue of Liberty

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What welcomed immigrants in San Francisco?

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Golden Gate Bridge

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Emma Lazarus

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Wrote poem about the Statue of Liberty

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What did immigrants have to pass through before entering the country?

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Immigration Centers

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What 2 processing is needed to pass to immigrate to the US

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  1. Medical inspection
  2. Legal inspection
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Ethnic Islands

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Area made up of one ethnicity

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Sweat shops

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Dark, crowded and unsafe clothing factories

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2 Multicultural Theories of Assimilation

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  1. Melting Pot Theory - abandon individual cultures and assimilate to American culture
  2. Mixed Salad - integrate different cultures in American culture
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Old immigrants

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Norther/Western Europe: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP)

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New immigrants

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Southern/Eastern Europe and Asia

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Immigration Restriction League

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Nativism

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only wanting native-born Americans

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The American Party

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“Know-Nothing”; political party designed to restrict and stop immigration.

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What does NINA mean

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No Irish Need Apply

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Stopped Chinese immigration for 30 years

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Gentlemen’s Agreement

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Limited Japanese immigration to America

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Immigration Act

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Required immigrants to read and write to enter America

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What were the working class known as?

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Have-Nots

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Where did working class live in?
Dumbbell tenements
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Where did the middle class live in?
Row Houses
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What was the Trolly/Streetcar
First mass transit
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What were Political Machines?
A group that controlled the activities of a political party led by a party boss
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what is Graft?
Illegal use of political influence for personal gain
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What was Tammany Hall?
Most infamous Political Machine; also known as "Tweed Ring"
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Who ran Tammany Hall?
William Tweed
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Ulysses S. Grant
The only US president that was not corrupt during the Gilded Age
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Thomas Nast
Journalist who drew political cartoons to expose corruption.
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Railroads
The "linchpin" that connected America
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Thomas Edison
Creates first incandescent light (electricity)
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Bourgeoisie/Robber Barons
Private Business owners
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Railroad
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JP Morgan
Banking
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Andrew Carnegie
Steel
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John D. Rockefeller
Oil/kerosene
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Industrial workers/Proletariat
Backbone of capitalism
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Progressive Era
Period of widespread social activism
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Jacob Riis
Journalist/Photographer that showed "how the other Half lived"
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Lewis Hines
Photographer that exposed the evils of child labor
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Upton Sinclair
Exposed unsanitary conditions in the meet industry
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Muckrakers
Reformers/progressives
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James Weaver
Founder of the Populist Party
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Washington Gladden
founder of Social Gospel Movement; salvation through service to the poor
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Settlement Houses
provided services to the poor
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YMCA
Young Men's Christian Association
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George Williams
Founder of the YMCA
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William Booth
Founder of Salvation Army
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Jane Addams
Founder of the Hull House
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Strikes
Stoppage of work
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MAIN
Causes of the Great war
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Otto Von Bismarck
German prime minister who created the Alliance System
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Triple Alliance
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
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Triple Entente
Great Britain, France, Russia, and USA
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WW1 was a...
Big family feud
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The Powder keg of Europe
Balkan Peninsula
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Pan-Slavism
to create a Slavic state called Yugoslavia
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Balkans Wars
Led to even that cause the great war
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Franz Ferdinand
Archduke of Austria-Hungary
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Franz Joseph
King of Austria-Hungary
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Sarajevo
place the archduke did the goodwill tour and was assassinated
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Black Hand
Serbian terrorist group
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Gavrilo Princep
Assassinated the Archduke of Austria-Hungary
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Mobilization
Countries begin preparing for war
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Manfred Von Richthofen
Red Baron
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Schlieffen Plan
Germany's plan to attack France through Belgium
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Battle of Somme
A battle where the allies gained 7 miles of turf
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Battle of Verdun
Largest and longest of WW1
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War of Attrition
Wearing the other side out
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What are the nick names of soldiers in each country in WW1?
Germany - Huns British - Tommies French - Frogs Americans - Doughboys/Sams
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Nicholas II
Russian Czar
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Gallipoli Campaign
British attempt to rescue Russia
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Bolshevik (Socialist Democratic Party)
Communist
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Mensheviks
Democratic
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Joseph Stalin
Most brutal Russian dictator
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Great Purge
Joseph Stalin killing or imprisoning over a million people
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Isolationism
Staying out of European affairs
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Arthur Zimmerman
Ambassador for Germany
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Woodrow Wilson
US pres. during WW1 that declared the war was to make the world safe for democracy
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John Perching
In charge of US army in WW1
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American Expeditionary Force
US Army
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George V
King of Great Britain
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Spanish Flu
One of the greatest Holocaust in history
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Paris
Peace treaty talk
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David Lloyd
Prime minister of Great Britain
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George Clemenceau
Leader of France
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Vittorio Orlando
Prime Minister of Italy
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Wilson's Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson's Peace Plan
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What did Woodrow Wilson want?
Peace without victory
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Point 14
Established the League of Nations
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Treaty of Versailles
Germany blamed for the war and forced to sign an agreement to accept the blame
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The Roaring 20s
era of great prosperity
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