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Unit 1 - Gilded Age Flashcards

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Time between civil war and word war 1 which the US population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and manny wealthy people

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Gilded age

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Do not hire list; used as punishment for joining unions

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Blacklisting

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Negotiating as a group for higher wages and better working conditions

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Collective bargaining

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Having exclusive control over industries w/ no competition

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Monopoly/Trust

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Govt does not interfere with economy much

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Laissez-faire

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Labor event occurred in TN and ended when national guard was sent in to stop violence

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Coal Creek labor Saga

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President Frover Cleveland sent in 12,000 federal troops to end strike. Then federal troop gained injuction (court order), forbidding the union to continue the strike

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The Pullman strike

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Labor union Eugene V. Debs and ARU who got involved and called for a nationwide strike

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Pullman strike

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Why did wealthy industrialist try to keep workers from joining labor unions?

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They feared that they would demand higher wages to paid employees

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The American federation of Labor (AFL) was only for

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Skilled workers

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The hiring and employment of union members only is know as

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Closed shop

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Open shops were supported by; 1.

Closed shops supported by 2:

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  1. Businesses

2. Unions

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Leader of American federation of labor (AFL)

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Samuel Gompers

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Leader of American railway union (ARU)

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Eugene V. Debs

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ARU organized strategy which members would refuse to handle certain types of railroad cars in response to layoffs and wages cut

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Pullman strike

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At this Chicago 1886, someone threw bomb into group of protesters and police

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Haymarket riot

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Event was caused by practice of leasing out convicts for industrialists to use in place of common labor

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Coal Creek labor saga

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Inventor of light bulb and phonograph

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Thomas Edison

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Banker and financed; invested money in inventors

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JP Morgan

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Meat tycoon who invented refrigerated railcar

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Gustavus Swift

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Chicago meat tycoon who did not invent refrigerated rail car

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Philip Armour

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Developed process to mass produce steel by melting iron

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Henry Bessemer

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Steel tycoon

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Andrew Carnegie

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Rail road tycoon; controlled railroads in northeast US

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Invented telephone

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Alexander Gram Bell

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Developed sleeping car

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George Pullman

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Oil tycoon; Standard Oil trust

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John D. Rockefeller

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A US federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The act requires railroad rates to be “reasonable and fair” but didn’t not empower the govt to fix rates

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Interstate Commerce Act

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Federal law passed in 1890 that committed the american govt to opposing monopolies. Law prohibits contracts, combinations or conspiracies in the restraint of trade or commerce but not enforced bc of corruption

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Sherman Anti-Trust act

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Impacts of Trusts

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Control of markets
Raised prices
Poor conditions, low wages and long hours for workers
Business leaders/trusts corrupted govt

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Gilded age factory working conditions

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Treated like machines
Low wages
Long hours
7 day workweek
Dangerous conditions
Income disparity
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Why were children and women hired in factories?

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Hired for cheap labor

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Factory, especially in clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours under poor conditions

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Sweatshop

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Hayes’ election following the Comprosie of 1877 to this

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Troop removal from the south

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1st African American elected to TN assembly

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Sampson Keeble

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Literacy test, poll tax, grandfather Clause are all _______

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Disenfranchisement methods

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Supporters of gold standard

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Rich/bankers/businesses

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The ___________ epidemic hit Memphis in 1878 and led to the deaths of thousands; brought on by mosquitoes

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Yellow Fever

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Japan would limit emigration; SF school board would end segregation policies

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Gentleman’s Agreement

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The government should not interfere in the economy

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Laissez-Faire

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Cartoonist who exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed

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Thomas Nast

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Supporters of bimetalism

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Farmers/wage earners/poor

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Leader of the Hull House who helped the struggling poor and immigrant population in Chicago

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Jane Addams

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Developed the idea of the GOSPEL OF WEALTH

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Andrew Carnegie

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Gave the CROSS OF GOLD speech that supported farmers and bimetalism

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William Jennings Bryan

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Law that required people to pass a civil service exam to get govt jobs

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Pendleton Act

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Grant administration scandal; distillers bribed govt tax collected to avoid the high taxes on liquor

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Whiskey Ring

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Garfield Assassin

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Charles Guiteau

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Grant administration scandal; construction company overcharged for building the Transcontinental Railroad and bribed congressmen to avoid investigation

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Credit Mobilier

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Increased the amt of money in circulation; led to the depletion of gold in the US Treasury (Gold Crisis during the Cleveland administration); people exchanged their treasury Notes, dollars, and silver coins for gold bc gold was seen as more valuable/stable

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Sherman Silver Purchase Act

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South and east Europe; culturally different, had trouble assimilating

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New immigrants

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How the Other Half Lives

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Jacob Riis

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State laws that restricted RR rates

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Granger Laws

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Stopped the immigration of Chinese Laborers

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Federal law that restricted RR rates and grain storage rates; not enforced

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Interstate commerce Act

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Protest against acts of police brutality against workers that led to a riot after someone throw a bomb

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Haymarket riot

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