The Gilded Age Flashcards
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Corporations
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- Cut back on competitions and created monopolies
- small businesses were done
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Gilded definition
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Wood or iron coded in a layer of gold to make it look like it was made out of gold
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City growth
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- cities in US grow in size and importance, happens quickly
- places of manufacturing, transportation, museums, and colleges
- set the style for culture
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Second great wave of immigration
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- New immigrants are people from Southern & Eastern Europe
- look, sound, believe differently
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Economic struggles
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- No national banking system
- panic of 1873: Banks and businesses fail, worst depression American history of that time
- panic of 1893; even worse, 10% unemployment rate
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Labor
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- Corporation cut wages
- worker strike, wanted shorter days and more money
- some strikes were violent
- unions are developing to protect workers rights
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Agrarian unrest
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- A lot of production of crops using machinery
- shipping, fertilizer, and tools are expensive
- farmers not making enough profit
- created people’s parties because they wanted more laws in their favor and more current seen in the system
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New pop culture
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- emphasis on leisure time
- creation of college teams
- music, records, concerts
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Inventions
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- telephone, electric lighting, indoor plumbing
- branding begins
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Disorder in politics
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- “search for order”
- farmers overproducing
- ignore Blacks and Indians
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1898
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- US picks a fight with Spain
- American steam and steal Navy ships beat Spain’s wooden navy
- take Spain’s colonies where we can Selmore which is an outlet for overproduction
