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12 Cards in this Set
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Mail order houses |
Mail order houses helped to get these new products for consumers trying to receive the products. Pg #652 |
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Gospel of wealth |
Thesis that hard work and perseverance lead to wealth, implying that poverty is a character flaw. Pg #654 |
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Knights of Labor |
Labor union founded in 1869 that included skilled and unskilled workers irrespective of race or the persons gender. Pg #657 |
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Chinese exclusion act |
Act that suspended Chinese immigration, limited the civil rights of resident Chinese, and forbade their naturalization. Pg #657 |
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Social Darwinism |
Social Darwinism was used as a explanation that justified why some Americans grew rich while others remained poor. This theory was derived from the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. Pg #654 |
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American Federation of Labor |
The AFL was a union formed in 1886 that organized skilled workers along craft lines and emphasized a workplace issues rather than a broad social program. Pg #659 |
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Tenements |
For to six story residential dwellings, once common in new York, built on tiny lots without regard to providing ventilation or light. Open space began to decrease as tenants spread and American city's grew. Pg #665 |
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Gilded age |
Term applied to late nineteenth-century America that refers to the shallow display and worship of wealth characteristics of that period. This was a label made by Mark Twain. Pg #667 |
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YMCA |
The YMCA set up nondenominational missions for working poor in many American city's l, also embarked on world wide crusade to reach non Christians. Pg #705 |
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Fredrick Law Olmstead |
Fredrick Law Olmstead was the landscape architect who created the back Bay opened onto the Fenway Park system. This back Bay provided space for the city's magnificent architecture. Pg #665 |
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Thomas Nast |
Thomas Nast was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was the scourge of Democratic Representative "Boss" Tweed and the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine. Pg #594 |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He is often identified as one of the richest people and one of the richest Americans ever. Pg 670 |
