Gilded Age: Textbook Definition Flashcards
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Pullman Strike definition:
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- railroad strike that escalated to 27 states, ultimately broken by the feds and resulting in management’s victory
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The Great Railroad Strike definition:
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- nation’s first major national labor conflict
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Andrew Carnegie definition:
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- Scottish immigrant who became a steel magnate and then philanthropist during the Gilded Age
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Eugene Debs definition:
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- leader of the American Railway Union in the Pullman strike
- presidential candidate for the Socialist Party
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Samuel Gompers definition:
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- union organizer under whose leadership the AFL grew by combining similar skilled unions together
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American Federation of Labor (AFL) definition:
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- union of skilled workers led by Samuel Gompers that used strikes to gain concessions from management
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Social Darwanism definition:
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- belief that societies are subject to the laws of natural selection and that some societies or peoples are innately superior to others
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Herbert Spencer definition:
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- introduced theory of Social Darwinism in his book Principles of Biology
- benefitted from the elimination of the unfit
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Chinese Exclusion Act definition:
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- blocked Chinese immigration and prevented those Chinese already living in American form becoming citizens for 10 years
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Horizontal integration:
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- a corporate combination where a group of businesses that do the same thing are consolidated
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Vertical integration:
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- arrangement by which a company takes ownership of business in various stages of production and distribution within the same industry
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Nativism definition:
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- belief in the superiority of native born inhabitants over immigrants
- an anti immigrant movement
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Prohibition definition:
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- complete ban on the sale and manufacture of alcoholic bevs
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Susan B Anthony definition:
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- abolitionist and one of the most iconic leaders of the early women’s rights movement
