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Gilded/Industrail Age Flashcards

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G. Swift

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Invented Refrigerated Railcar

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T. Edison

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Invented Light Bulb

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C.Sholes

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Invented typewriter

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A.Bell

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invented Telephone

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Wright Brothers

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invented airplane

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S.Morse

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Invented Telegraph

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Elijah McCoy

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Invented Lubricating Cup

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Henry Ford Invented

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Mass Production and Ford Model Ts

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Laissez-faire

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Bussiness can do whatever it wants and Goverment will not interfere

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free Enterprise

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The economic system in which citizen are free to run bussiness however they want

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Bessemer Process

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an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first sucessful method in making steel low cost

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Natural Resources in the industrial Revolution

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Coal, Iron, Oil

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Edwin L Drake

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He produced oil in Titusville Pen, and produced 20 barrels of oil a day.

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Big Oil States

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Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia

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Workforce during the industrial revolution

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Farmers, Former Slaves, Immigrants

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Who coined the term the gilded age

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M. Twain

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Main Characteristics of the Gilded Age

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New Polices on dealing with Native Americans
Rise of Polictal machines running local politics
The growth of industrialization

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Groups that suffered during the gilded age

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Native Americans
Blacks
Immigrants
Framers
Women
Children

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Why Native Americans Suffered during the gilded age

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They are forced onto reservations and to adopt American culture

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Why Blacks Suffered during the gilded age

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They were denied basic rights and facing violence

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Why Immigrants Suffered during the gilded age

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Face Discrimination and lived horrible intercity conditions

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Why Farmers Suffered during the gilded age

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overproduction makes the values of goods go down

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why women suffered during the gilded age

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Denied basic voting right and weren’t allowed to do the same jobs as men and faced pay discrimination

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why children suffered during the gilded age

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Lacked good education and got payed nothing for the long hours of labor they had to do

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Polictal Machines

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Powerful organizations that used both legal and illegal means to get their candidates elected to public office

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Boss Tweed

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Polictal Boss, William Marcy Tweed who stole money from the the city of NY

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Tammany Hall

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Nickname for Democratic Party machine in NY

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Tweed Ring

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Most famous polictal machine, headed by William Marcy Tweed

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Graft

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the illegal use of political influence for personal gain

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Kickbacks

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a payment made to someone who vacillated a transaction or appointment

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patronage

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The act of giving Goverment jobs to supporters of the winning party in a election “Spoils System”

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Half Breeds

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Republican Reformers who wanted to put an end to the spoil system (James Blaine)

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Stalwarts

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Republicans who supported patronage led by Roscoe Conklin

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Gilded age Presidents were

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Considered weak in comparison to congress

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US Grant

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His administration started the gilded age, there were many scandals during his time as president, became guilty by association

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Credit Mobilier Scandal

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NY newspaper was first to reveal this scandal were the officers of Unoin Pacific Railroad former there own construction company. These Railroad officers got payed big time.
Grants VP and members of congress were involved. Credit Mobilier Company was the construction company which was found guilty of steal from Unoin pacific railroad . They covered it up by selling stocks at a large discount which Goverment bought

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Whiskey Ring Scandal

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Whiskey Distillers did it pay the taxes the Goverment gave them and treasury officials got the taxes as a bonus

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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He is a republican from Ohio who won despite not wining electoral college vote only wining popular.

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comprise of 1877

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Rutherford was president if he removed troops from the south, constructed a transcontinental railroad using Texas and Pacific, Improved southern rivers, appoint a southern democrats to cabinet

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Who did Rutherford B. Hayes fire

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2 top officials at the fraudulent custom house

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James Garfield

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President that opposed spoil system and was assinated

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Charles Guiteau

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Man who assinated James Garfield in train station

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Anti- Spoil System President

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James Garfield

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Chester A Aruthur

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Fancy, Posh, Rich guy brought up by spoil system to eventually tore it down

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Pendleton Act

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Was passed in a reaction to Garfield’s assintion, it was a merit system for awarding federal jobs, candidates must take an examination (Civil Service exam) to qualify 10%

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Grover Clevand

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The 22nd and 24th president, fathered a child out of wedlock

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which President repealed Tenure of Office act

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Grover Clevand

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Prevouis Grover Clevand jobs

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Mayor of Buffalo and Governor of NY

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