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Period 6 1865-1898 Flashcards

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J.P Morgan

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Very successful banker

-bought US Steele (first $billion company)

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John D Rockefeller

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Standard oil

  • 90-95% of the oil refineries in the us
  • reduced prices to make competitors bankrupt
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Andrew carnegie

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Steel

  • Bessemer steel production (cheaper)
  • worked and supplied rail roads
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Vanderbilt

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Rail road Barron
NYC to Chicago rout
Vertical integration

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Horizontal integration

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Smaller companies combine to form a larger one

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Vertical integration

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Company controls all phases of manufacturing (mining to market)
-easy and cheaper to get supplies

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Robber baron

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Business leaders who use politics to get $ and benefits

  • pay official
  • support officials in exchange for new laws
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Sherman-anti-trust act 1890

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Tried to break up monopolies

-not originally enforced

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Gilded age

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Term by mark twain

-looks good but underneath its not

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Panic of 1893

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Railroads expanded to fast

  • lines to nowhere
  • banks failed
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Knights of labor 1869

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Organized unions

  • labor bureau created
  • led HAYMARKET STRIKE
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Great railroad strike 1877

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Shut down 2/3 of us railroads

  • 500,000 protesters
  • put down by federal government
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HAYMARKET square 1886

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Wanted 8hr workday

  • bomb went off –done
  • 100,000 workers
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Homestead strike 1892

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Steel factory

  • against wage reductions
  • violent
  • put down by Pinkerton and militia
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Pullman strike 1894

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Put down by Cleveland because the blocked us mail shipments

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American Federation of Labor (AFL) 1886

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Sam Gompers

  • skilled crafts worker union
  • better pay, less hours, better conditions
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Samuel Gompers

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Leader of the American federation of labor

-skilled workers union

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Mother jones

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  • wanted to help works and be their voice
  • supported rr strikes
  • helped advocate for coal miners
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The new south

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Industrial growth
New transportation
-capitalist
-self-sufficient

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Crop-lien systems (Sharecropping, tenant farming)

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Loan $ to new farmers (free blacks)

  • give a share of the crops in return and to purchase stuff
  • went they can’t pay, they work whites farms (slave)
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Grange 1867

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Farmers movement against the high TRANSPORTATION and STORAGE cost that the railroads charged

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Granger laws

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Regulated railroad rates and storage costs (kinda)

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Farmers alliance

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  • got federal rr regulations

- started POPULIST PARTY

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People’s (POPULIST) party 1891

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Designed to appeal to all workers

  • supported large government role
  • more direct democracy
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Omaha platform 1892

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Populist platform

  • free silver coinage
  • income taxes
  • Rr regulations
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Gold standard

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By McKinley

  • all paper $ backed by us bank
  • gold reserves
27
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Free silver

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Movement to us silver to back $

-not accepted because other countries used silver

28
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William Jennings Bryan 1896

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3 times presidential candidate

-populist party candidate

29
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Old immigrants vs new

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Old- northern European
Highly skilled
English speaking

New- southern/eastern Europe
Close-knit community
Uneducated, poor, unskilled

30
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Railroad subsidies

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Us gave railroads land surrounding them

- railroads could sell land for profit

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Morrill land grant acts 1862 + 1890

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Sale of public land given to the state

  • establish school
  • agricultural colleges
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Frederick Jackson Turner

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Humanity can only progress if there is land to move into.

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Crazy horse

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  • Nez Perce leader
  • gold diggers went on his land
  • tire do escape to Canada
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Sitting bull

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  • souix leader

- forced into Canada

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Great Sioux Warb1876-1881

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Sitting Bull

  • whites wanted his land
  • forced him and tribe into Canada
36
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Little big horn 1876

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Custer vs Sioux

-Custer was killed

37
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Chief Joseph

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Nez Perce Leader

  • tired to go to Canada
  • was forced to return
38
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Dawes Severalty act 1887

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Attempted to turn Indians white

  • broke tribes apart and redistributed them
  • head got 160 acres each
39
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Ghost dance

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Tired to call past spirits to kill the whites

40
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Massacre at wounded knee 1890

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Sioux left reservation in protest

  • us killed 150 Indians
  • last great conflict
41
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Credit mobilier

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Union pacific

  • made its own rr construction company
  • hired and overplayed itself
42
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Tweed ring (Tammany hall)

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Gave $, care, jobs, education, representation, friendship to NEW IMMIGRANTS

  • for: vote and upcoming development info
  • used info to overcharge projects
43
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Mugwumps

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Republicans who supported Cleveland (d)

-didn’t like corrupt Blaine (r)

44
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Pendleton act 1883

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Federal employes now selected based on merit (not party)

-civil service commission

45
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Interstate compress act 1887

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Federal gov can oversee it

-rr must publicize rates and file with the government

46
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Chinese exclusion act 1882

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No new Chinese laborers into USA (till ww2)

47
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American protective association 1887

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Anti-immigrants

48
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Jim crow laws

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Separate but equal

Segregation————-legal—————-

49
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Please vs ferguson 1869

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Seperate but equal is ok

50
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Gospel of wealth

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By Carnegie

  • social Darwinism
  • earn your own damn money
  • build libraries and schools
51
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Social Darwinism

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1850s
Survival of the fittest
-work for your own $
-natural selection

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