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Industralization And Interconnection Flashcards

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Knights of labor

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Est. 1869 - rejection of socialism and promotion of the producer ethic of republicanism

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First joint European and North American economic depression

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Panic of 1873

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Gilded Age

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1870-1900 –> 60% rise in wages compared to Europe

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Robber Barons

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Wealth and powerful 19th century American businessmen.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie

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Erie Canal

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1825 - mid west breadbasket open to the Atlantic

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First successful steamboat

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1807 - The Clermont - 32 hours NYC to Alabamy

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UK belt of innovation

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Liverpool - Manchester

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US Milage of railroad track in 1890

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163,562 miles

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First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad

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1869 - Chinese and Irish labor

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Rebuilding of Paris

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1853 - Eugene Haussmann

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Sherman Anti Trust Act

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1890 - protection of consumers from price fixing

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Children’s Employment Commission (Mines) report

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1842

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Mines act

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1842 - prohibited women and children under 10 from working underground

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Luddites –> Hobsbawm comment

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1815-20 – “collective bargaining by riot”

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American Federation of Labour

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1886

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The railway strike

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1887

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Reform to 8 hour workday in US

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1884

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Mechanization of labour 1870 procentage

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80% US

50% GB

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Abolition of Corn Laws

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1846

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Cobden-Chevalier treaties

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1860-61 Anglo-FR free trade treaties

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Immigration from North-West Europe 1815-1865

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10 mln

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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1882

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Emma Lazarus quote

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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free” - immigration

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German cultural impact on US

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Hamburgers, Easter bunny, brewery - pasteurization & Budweiser -1876 - hallmark for US beer

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Foran Act

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1885 - Ban of indenture for crossing the Atlantic

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Crop lien system

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Fall of prices of cotton –> lower revenue combined with increased credit availability –> Sharecroppers and tenant farmers who did not own the land they worked obtained supplies and food on credit from local merchants. They held a lien on the cotton crop and the merchants and landowners were the first ones paid from its sale. What was left over went to the farmer.

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Edwin Chadwick’s report

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“The Sanitary conditions of the Labouring population” - 1842

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