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Gilded Age

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  • 1870-90
  • wealth gap and corruption
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The Solid South

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  • the south voted democrat every election for 100 years after the civil war
  • basically one party system of the south
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Grand Army of the Republic

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  • founded by union soliders
  • lobbied congress for aid and pensions for ex soldiers
  • powerful among republicans
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Greenback Party

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  • wanted to improve lives of laborers
  • wanted more inflation
  • height in 1878
  • wanted paper money
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Roscoe Conkling

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  • NY senator
  • leads of the Stalwarts
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Rutherford B Hayes

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  • republican
  • part of Hayes-Tilden corrupt election
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Stalwarts

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  • faction of republicans
  • pro political machines
  • pro patronage
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Half Breeds

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  • Led by James G Blaine
  • part of republican party
  • wanted civil service reform and merit system
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James Garfield

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assassinated so Stalwarts could be in power in government

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Chester Arthur

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  • Became president after Garfield was shot
  • surprised people by supporting Pendleton Act
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Pendleton Act

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  • created Civil Service Commission
  • established merit system
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James G Blaine

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  • leader of Half Breeds
  • wanted civil service reform but was corrupt too
  • said rum, romanism, rebellion…against immigrants and this cost election
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Mugwumps

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republican faction that supported Cleveland (D) bcz thought Blaine was corrupt

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Grover Cleveland

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  • laissez faire guy
  • wanted to lower the surplus and spend
  • confronted the GAR’s fraudulent claims –> need proof for money
  • repeals silver purchase
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ma ma wheres my pa

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said about cleveland and his illegitimate child in election against blaine

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Benjamin Harrison

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  • republican who imposed highest tariff (Mckinley)
  • increased federal spending
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Billion dollar congress

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  • republican congress 1890
  • passed record number of important laws
  • gave power to federal government
  • gave pension to civil war vets
  • increased silver purchase
  • passed McKinley Tariff
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The Grange

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social organization of farmers that developed into political movement which was the farmer’s alliance

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Farmer’s Alliance

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  • wanted lower tariffs
  • more silver coinage
  • set up cooperatives
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Populist Party Platform

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  • pro silver
  • direct election of senators
  • australian ballot
  • 8 hour workday
  • restriction of “undesirable immigration”
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James B Weaver

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  • populist party
  • from west
  • won 8% of votes in 1892
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Panic of 1893

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  • over extension of railroads caused collapse and bankruptcies
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890

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increased coinage of silver and silver circulation

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Coxey’s Army

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  • unemployed workers led by Jacob Coxey
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Free Silver

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  • Political issue abt unlimited coinage of silver
  • supported by farmers and William Jennings Bryan
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Gold Cross Speech

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William Jennings Bryan

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William Jennings Bryan

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  • democrat
  • ran in 1896 supporting silver coinage
  • got support from populist party which caused them to fall apart
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William McKinley

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  • raised tariffs
  • maintained gold standard
  • industrial growth
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Election of 1896

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  • McKinley (W) vs William JB (L)
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John Dewey

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  • education reformer
  • learning by doing
  • workbench as important as blackboard
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Ida Tarbell

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exposed corruption of oil industry w “A history of standard oil”

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Lincoln Steffens

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  • started muckraking journalism w McClure
  • criticized trend of urbanizaiton w/ “Shame of the Cities”
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Initiative

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A procedure by which voters can propose a law or a constitutional amendment.

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Referendum

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A state-level method of direct legislation that gives voters a chance to approve or disapprove proposed legislation or a proposed constitutional amendment.

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Robert La Follette

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  • WI governor implemented progressive policies
  • impacted fed govt to shift left politically
  • part of the Insurgents
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

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  • one of the leading temperance groups
  • famous for women’s role in the movement
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The Birth of a Nation

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It demonstrated the power of film propaganda and revived & glorified the KKK.

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Ida Wells Barnett

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  • african american writer
  • early civil rights leader
  • documented lynching
  • active in women’s rights
  • worked w WEB Du Bois w/ NAACP and Niagra Movement
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NAACP

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  • abolish segregation and discrimination
  • achieve political and civil rights
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Carrie Chapman Catt

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  • conservative president of NAWSA
  • pushed state by state nationwide suffrage movement
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Alice Paul

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  • giving women right to vote would elimate political corruption
  • women are the moral compass of society
  • had militant strategies, didn’t want to lobby and use old methods
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Margaret Sanger

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  • American Birth Control League
  • first birth control clinic
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Theodore Roosevelt

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  • trust buster
  • Hepburn Act (expanded ICC, set max rates for railroads)
  • safe food regulations
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Square Deal

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Economic policy by Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers (in labor disputes; 1902 Coal Strike)

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Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

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  • didn’t allow manufacture, transport, or sale of mislabeled or altered food, drugs, etc.
  • paved way for FDA
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Meat Inspection Act

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  • made rules for sanitary mea packing
  • govt will inspect meat products crossing state lines
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Newlands (National Reclamation) Act

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  • funded irrigation projects in the west
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William Howard Taft

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  • angered progressives in party & TR by becoming conservative
  • trust buster
  • Mann Elkins Act:
  • Payne Aldrich Tariff:
  • Pinchot Ballinger Controversy:
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insurgents

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  • reformist progressive republicans
  • follette, albert cummins, george norris, william borah
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Bull Moose Party Platforms

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  • new nationalism
  • lower tariffs
  • taxed income
  • women’s rights
  • currency reform
  • minimum wage
  • limits on campaign spending
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Woodrow Wilson

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  • federal reserve act: set up fed banks and gave govt power to control money supply, fed reserve notes begin
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16th amendment

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congress can tax income

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17th amendment

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direct election of senators

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18th amendment

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prohibition/temperance

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19th amendment

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women get right to vote

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