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37 Cards in this Set
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Plessy vs. Ferguson |
Court approves state laws requiring separate facilities for blacks & whites |
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New South |
based on industrial expansion & agriculture diversification |
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Redeemers |
redeemed the South from the "horrors" of government & "black rule" |
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Knights of Labor |
1st group to organize workers |
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Gospel of Wealth |
the idea that the rich should use money to benefit society |
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Lochner vs. New York |
voided State law of 10 hour work day because it infringed on personal freedom |
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Social Darwinism |
poverty is a character flaw, government shouldn't help, survival of the fittest |
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Dawes Act |
broke upland of tribes to distribute to Indian families & sell to white purchases |
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Wounded Knee |
Dec. 29th, 1890-soldiers massacred 150-200 Indians, marked the end of the conflict |
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Sitting Bull |
Sioux Leader-became a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show after prison |
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2nd Industrial Revolution |
R.R. & growing population created mass production, mass distribution, & mass marketing of goods |
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Gilded Age |
The period of time after the Civil War where everything looked good on the outside, but was really corrupt on the inside |
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Samuel Gompers |
AFL-Strikes are the most powerful tool |
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Terrence Powderly |
Knights of Labor-opposed strikes |
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John D. Rockfeller |
Bad! Oil, self-made man |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Good! Gospel of wealth, public libraries, steel |
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Gustavus Swift |
meat industry |
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limited liability |
only reliable for what you put in |
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"robber barons" |
The richest men, Mark Twain term |
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Civil Service Act of 1883 |
control who is hired, monitor taxes, money standard |
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Credit Mobilier Scandal (1872) |
US gave loans to stockholders |
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) |
prevent inflation of prices |
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Interstate Commerence Commission (1887) |
control R.R. |
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laissez-faire |
"hands-off" - no government interference |
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"waiving the bloody shirt" |
Ohio man beaten by the KKK sent his shirt to the house who waved it in congress |
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Women's Christian Temperance Union |
demanded prohibition of alcohol to economic & Political reform - wanted women to realize they are strong & independent |
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The Women's Era |
3 decades where women had better economic independence & a public life |
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American Federation of Labor |
focused on organizing workers - strikes were key |
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Booker T. Washington |
advised blacks to stop fighting segregation, instead focus on getting a job/making a living |
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"cult of the flag" |
America's worship of the stars & stripes |
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"yellow press" |
sold millions of copies each day by mixing crime & political corruption w/ appeal to patriotic sentiments |
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"Splendid little war" |
term for the Spanish-American War because it lasted 4 months |
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Anti-Imperialist League |
believed American energies should be directed home, afraid of maintaining overseas outposts, & didn't want non-whites is the US |
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Progressives |
hoped to bring significant change to American social & political life |
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muckrakers |
journalists who expose the corrupt side of American life |
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fordism |
the economic system based on mass production & mass consumption |
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"American Standard of Living" |
a decent standard of living that enabled a person to participate in consumer economy |
