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Unit 6: Gilded Age Flashcards

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Robber Barons

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Notable owners of big business

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Horizontal Integration

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Owning all versions of a service or industry

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Vertical Integration

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Owning all the steps of an industry

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Rockefeller

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Oil

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Morgan

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Banking

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Carnegie

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Steel

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Vanderbilt

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Railroads

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Social Darwinism

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Survival of the fittest, rich can take control of poor because they are the “fit”

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Socialists

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focuses on laborers improving their conditions and taking power away from business

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Homestead Act

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Law that offered free land in the Midwest on the great plains

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Sodbusters

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first farmers that arrived in the great plains

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Grange movement

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organization of allied farmers that created cooperatives as a way to regulate shipping and sales costs

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Populist

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“People’s Party” made up of mostly farmers and workers who faced poverty as a result of the industrial revolution

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Williams Jennings Bryan

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Populist Party Candidate. Wrote the “Cross of Gold” speech in support of American farmers

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Gold Standard/Silver Standard

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Basing the value of a currency off a country’s supply of the total amount of gold they had. Farmers wanted silver included in this value in order to cause inflation and increase available money

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Conservationists

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An environmental movement created to combat deforestation. Promoted regulated use of natural resources

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“Old” Immigrants

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Immigrants from primarily Western Europe. Maintained similar religions, languages and job skills to Americans

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“New” Immigrants

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Immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. Brought new languages, unfamiliar religions, and were employed in low skill factory and labor jobs

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Civil Service Commission

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Reform in government that gave jobs only to those who could pass an exam relating to that position

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Greenbacks

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Paper money not backed by gold or silver

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