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Gilded Age - Sheet1 Flashcards

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The people take an elected official out of office

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Recall

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A strike coming from the railroad industry. Railroad workers walked off on the job to protest a 50% wage decrease

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Pullman Strike

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Companies must accurately label ingredients in processed food items

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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Created the Incandescent lightbulb and the phonograph

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Thomas Edison

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The date that the 19th amendment (women’s suffrage) was passed

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8/26/1920

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Place immigrants went through on West Coast to become U.S. citizens. More exclusive than Ellis Island

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Angel Island

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Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul

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Leaders of Women’s Suffrage

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First major anti-trust court case. Roosevelt v. Morgan, Roosevelt won

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Northern Securities Co. V. United States

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Created political cartoons. His work led to Boss Tweed being convicted of embezzlement

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Thomas Nast

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1890-1920

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When did the Progressive Era last?

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Professional city manager hired to run each department and report directly to the city council

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City Manager Plan

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Created the airplane

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Orville and Wilbur Wright

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Someone through a bomb into the crowd at a meeting for laborers. A German was blamed and chaos ensued

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Haymarket Riot

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Belief that one’s native country and culture is superior to others

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Nativism

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No competition, one person controls the entire market, can charge whatever they want, can pay workers whatever they want

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Cons of Monopolies

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California, Wyoming, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Kansas, Arizona, Nevada, Montana, Arkansas, Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma

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States that Passed Suffrage rights before the 19th amendment

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Owning every stage of production

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Vertical integration

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Inhaling coal, leather strap around hips made young girls die in childbirth, baskets on head caused bald spots. Children from the age of 5 and up had to work for 12 hours in the dark, surrounded by rats. If they fell asleep, the miners beat them up.

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Problems in the mines

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Illegally transporting alcohol

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Bootlegging

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Created the telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Experts ran different fields of the city

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City Commissioner Plan

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Direct election of Senators

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17th Amendment

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Outlawed creation of monopolies, unions are protected

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Clayton Antitrust Act

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Robber baron/captain of industry, excelled in the oil industry with the help of horizontal integration

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John D. Rockefeller

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Lots of money to give to charity, push technology for better products, provide lots of jobs, and can keep prices low

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Pros of Monopolies

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The date the Women’s Suffrage Amendment was originally proposed to Congress

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1878

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Citizens force a legislature to vote on an law

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Initiative

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Robber baron/captain of industry, excelled in the steel industry with the help of vertical integration

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Andrew Carnegie

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Wrote The Octopus which exposed monopolistic railroad practices in California.

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Frank Norris

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Place immigrants went through on East Coast to become U.S. citizens

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Ellis Island

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Jeanette Rankin

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First female elected to the House of Representatives

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Robber baron of the railroads

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Model T Ford, Assembly Line

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Henry Ford

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Members of the press that investigated corruption in order to expose problems to the American people.

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Muchrackers

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Created 12 district Federal Reserve Banks

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Federal Reserve Act

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Americans could vote in secret without anyone knowing how they voted

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Secret ballot

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Alcohol is prohibited to be bought, sold, or transported

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18th Amendment

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Good education, safe work environment, efficient workplace, and chance to be politically active

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Goals of Progressives

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Meat processing plants must be inspected

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Meat Inspection Act

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A fire that happened in a sweatshop where women were trapped inside. 114 workers were killed

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

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A party that believed immigrants had to stay in the country for 21 years becoming a citizen, wanted to ban Catholics, and have no foreigners in public office

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No-Nothing Party

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Political, economic, working/living conditions, temperance, and women’s suffrage

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Major reforms of the Progressive Era

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Markets expand, natural resources, and labor

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Characteristics needed for an industrial revolution

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The people vote on a law

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Referendum

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Investigated unfair business practices

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Federal Trade Act

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Exposed lynching in the South with her book: Southern Horrors. Lynch Law in All Its Phases. Joined forces with NAACP to fight for federal anti-lynching laws

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Ida B. Wells

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Now the Senators are elected by the people, not the state legislature

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Direct election of Senators

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U.S. President known for being a “trust-buster”

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Children workers, lost fingers and limbs in factory equipment.

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Problems in the Factories

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Check ship for disease, check people for disease, mental testing, legal inspection, possible name change, and liable to become a public charge

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Steps of Ellis Island Process

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Outlawed rebates

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Elkins Act

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Secret bar that existed during prohibition

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Speakeasies

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Jobs, escape persecution, cheaper to get there, civil wars/conflicts

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Reasons why Immigrants came to America

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The rights of a citizen shall not be denied on account of sex

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19th Amendment

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Maximum railroad rates

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Hepburn Act

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Crowded, poor sanitation, disease, poverty, crime

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Problems in cities

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Happened in 1848. First gathering of women’s suffrage movement where demands were created. Did not want to be above men, but not below. Did not want rights limited

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Seneca Falls Convention

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A law making it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or other countries

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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Induction electric motor

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Nikola Tesla

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Morse code, typewriter, sewing machine, refrigerator, sky scrapers, washing machine, and elevator

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Inventions of the Gilded Age

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Towns run by company; difficult to leave

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Company towns

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Robber baron/captain of industry, excelled in the banking industry with the help of a holding company

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JP Morgan

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Eliminate competition

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Horizontal integration

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Wrote The Jungle. Helped pass the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act

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Upton Sinclair

11th grade US History (23 decks)

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