History Chapter 1 Test Flashcards
Small Essay: explain the election of 1876 and the compromise of 1877.
The election of 1876was one of the most hostile elections. Some still wanted to still reconstruct the South, and the Republicans were being corrupt. During this time America was 3 years into a recession. Republicans blamed democrats for the civil war.
The compromise of 1877 the democrats are free from republican oppression and can govern themselves in the south, but Hayes the Republican gets to be in the Whitehouse.
Small Essay: explain Tammany Hall.
Tammany Hall might be one of the first case of organized crime. Boss Sweed was in charge of it, he put in grants for things like school, bridges, asylums, and Tammany hall. He lied, none of these things actually existed he just wanted money. By the time the scam over they were 36 million dollars in debt.
Large Essay: industry, 8 reasons of successful industry.
- 12 New States- previous to this no one settled past Mississippi
- Immigration- 1860-32 million/ 1910-92 million people
- Increased: demand/labor force
- West: farm, prospect, cowboy/ the land just past the Mississippi is the richest soil
- New: Machines and Methods Communication/ innovations occurs/ no waste is allowed/ crud oil, was turned into things like lotion and petroleum jelly
- Sympathetic Government: high tariff and low immigration
- Power: Electricity and Oil
- Creation: Corporation
Matching: who was the captain of industry (shipping)?
Vanderbilt
Matching: who was the captain of the Great Northern Railroad?
James J. Hill
Matching: who was the captain of the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
Matching: who is the captain of the oil industry?
John D. Rockefeller
Matching: who is the captain of finance?
J.P. Morgan
Small Essay: Explain the Spoils System.
Also known as grantism, corrupt or incompetent people given jobs due to connections. Machines, controlled taxes and voting, would get immigrants jobs and as payment would get them to take fake identified of decks eased people to vote for them.
