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The American West and The Gilded Age Flashcards

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Year

First Transcontinental Railroad

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1863

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Homestead Act

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1862

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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1882

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Benz-Velo (first automobile)

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1885

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Haymarket Riot

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1886

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Dawes Act

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1887

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Wounded Knee Massacre

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1890

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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1890

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Pullman Strike

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1894

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Years in Era

Gilded Age

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1860’s (1877)-1898

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Where did term “Gilded Age” originate

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Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in book “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today”(1873)

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Term gilded refers to?

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The gilding of s cheap metal with a thin layer of gold

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Critic complains of gilded age

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Era naked by ostentatious display, crass manners, political corruption, and shady ethics

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Define

Era

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Not time specific

Named after what was predominately going on during a span of time

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Define

Event

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Have specific dates

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Connect words with civil

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Civil-social-people

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Connect words

Market

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Market-business

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Connect words

Machine

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Machine-organization

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Connect words

Trust

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Trust-monopoly

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Define

Political machine

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An organization designed to create political offices to promote a specific business

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Define

Labor union

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Organized workers who try to set up better business practices, work conditions, and wages

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Define

Strike

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A worker’s protest

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Define

Antitrust act

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Government regulation of business

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What is the “Gospel of Wealth”

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An article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich

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Wrote “The Gospel of Wealth”

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Andrew Carnegie

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Date

Wounded Knee Massacre

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December 29, 1890

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Where did it occur?

Wounded Knee Massacre

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Near “Wounded Knee Creek” on the “Lakota Pine Ridge Indian reservation in SOUTH DAKOTA”

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What exactly was it?

Wounded Knee Massacre

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Killing of Elk’s “Lakota tribe” with “Hotchkiss Guns”(cannons)

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Who am I?

Sponsored Dawes act

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Henry L. Dawes

Senator of Massachusetts

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Three policies of

America’s Indian policy

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  1. Indian removal act
  2. Reservations
  3. Destruction of buffalo herds
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Federal policy that broke up reservation lands into smaller individual plots of land that were to be assigned to American Indians on an individual basis

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Dawes act

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What was intended with

Dawes act

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To “assimilate American Indians” by making them self-sufficient through individual land ownership

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Provided that the government would purchase Indian land “excess” to that needed for allotment and open it up for settlement by non-Indians

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Dawes act

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How much land did native Americans lose due to Dawes act

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90 million acres

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About how many Indians were made landless due to Dawes act

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90,000

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What in the Dawes act ended hunting as a means of subsistence for native Americans

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Allotment policy

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What found that Dawes act had been used to illegally deprive native Americans of their land rights?

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A Calvin Coolidge Administration study

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What year was the Calvin Coolidge Administration study that found the illegality in the Dawes act completed

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1928

38
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Developed the assembly line

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Ford Motor Company

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First to master the moving assembly line

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Henry Ford

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Had great ramifications of mass production
Affordable
Introduced high wages for Ford workers

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Ford Model T

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Years in which modern assembly line was developed

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Between 1908 and 1915

42
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What were the effects of the automobile

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  • Affected standard of living in the United States
  • Increased mobility
  • Created jobs
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What was the first modern automobile

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Benz-Velo (1885)

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Who invented the first modern automobile

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Karl Benz

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What did electricity effect

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  • Economy

- Manufacturing

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According to most experts what was the most important discovery made at the turn of the 20th century

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Electricity

47
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Led enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century

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Andrew Carnegie

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What major companies were merged to make U.S. Steel

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  • Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Steel

- Elbert H. Gary’s Federal Steel Company

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Define

Philanthropist

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Person who takes private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of life

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Andrew Carnegie facts

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Philanthropist

Built Carnegie hall

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Motivating factor that brought many immigrants to the United States

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The American Dream

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James Truslow Adams “American Dream” 1931 definition

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“Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement”

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Conflict between the new American Railway Union (ARU) and railroad other railroad companies

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Pullman strike

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Shut down much of the nation’s freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit

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Pullman strike

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Nearly 4,000 employees strike in response to recent reductions in wages for railway workers

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Pullman strike

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Founded the ARU

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Eugene V. Debs

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ARU

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Organization of unskilled railroad workers

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Effects of Pullman strike

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  • $80 million in damages
  • 30 people killed
  • Debs was sent to prison
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Connect words with

Labor

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Labor-workers

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Top leader of Pullman strike

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Eugene V. Debs

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Who wrote the Sherman antitrust act

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John Sherman

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First federal statue to limit cartels and monopolies

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Sherman Antitrust act

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Who actually enacted the Sherman antitrust act

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Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909

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Where was the Haymarket Riot

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Chicago Illinois

65
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Where did Pullman Strike happen

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Pullman, Illinois

66
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Labor demonstration that began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight hour day witch turned violent

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Haymarket riot

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First example of strike with violence

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Haymarket riot

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Effects of Haymarket riot

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Death of seven police dead at least four civilians dead others wounded

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