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30 Cards in this Set
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Thaddeus Stevens |
Radical republican during reconstruction. Believed in full equality for blacks. Wanted to impose radical republican plan and not andrew johnson's plan. |
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Crop lien |
A method farmers used during the gilded age to purchase supplies before the money from harvesting crops had come in. Purchased from the merchant on a "credit" system and the crop was the collateral. |
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Dawes Act |
An attempt at reformation for indians. Reservation land divided into 160 acre plots, the rest was sold to white men. Attempt at Americanizing indians and disrupting the tribal culture. |
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Laissez Faire |
The idea of a free market in which the government does not interfere in the affairs of private businesses. Allowed for capitalists to take advantage of laborers without breaking laws and led to many labor disputes. |
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Nathan Bedford Forest |
Founded KKK. Used bulldozing, an intimidation method, to prevent republicans from voting during reconstruction. After being initially put down by the north continued to terrorize the blacks making them look helpless. |
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Compromise of 1877 |
After a close presidential election, the compromise allowed Hayes, a republican to be president. In return reconstruction would end, troops would leave the south, Hayes would allow home rule to return to the south. |
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Henry Clay Frick |
A capitalist during the Gilded Age, Frick was a successful business man who strongly opposed labor unions. He would use lockouts and hired guns to end strikes and during the homestead strike was backed by the militia. Was a classic capitalist as he looked at labor as a commodity with no rights. |
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"Contraband" |
Escaped slaves from the south who headed north. The union pledged not to return them to the south to turn the civil war into a war about slavery to keep European countries from aiding the south in the war. |
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Scalawags |
White southerners who voted republican during reconstruction. Were also targeted by KKK and were targets of bulldozing. Believed best way to return south's power was by riding the flow of Reconstruction. |
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Bull Moose Party |
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Knights of Labor |
An inclusive labor union during the Gilded Age. The union accepted people of all backgrounds including women, blacks and unskilled workers. Fought for laborers' rights and used collective bargaining and unionization as leverage against capitalists. |
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Gospel of Wealth |
An article written by Andrew Carnegie, a capitalist during the Gilded Age who tried to make the public believe he was a philanthropist. The article argued that the rich should give back to the poor to combat the ever widening income inequality. |
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Populism |
The populist party was a third political party created during the Gilded Age by farmers who were found themselves losing status and in debt. Populism served to aid laborers and farmers in regaining rights, status and control of work. Populism ultimately failed with the failure to elect William Bryan as laborers were split from farmers by William Mckinley. |
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Wovoka |
Paiute shaman during the Gilded Age, he had a vision that if Indians did the Ghost dance the old Indian way of life would be restored. The dance was used as a spiritual response to their diminished status in white society. Whites thought the dance was unchristian ultimately leading to bloodshed. |
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Fort Laramie Treaty |
A treaty in 1868 between Indians and the US government promising Indian land backed up by the US in the Black Hills. The Sioux Indians homeland. Soon gold was discovered there and the Indians were overrun with whites and received no help from the US government. |
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Muckrakers |
People during the Gilded Age who revealed to society the horrors of the lower working class. The realities of what was going on at factories and the living conditions of the laborers at those factories.B |
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Butte, Montana |
A classic Gilded Age town, large amounts of precious metals were found at Butte, including copper. A necessary material for producing electrical equipment, the discovery of copper at Butte allowed for the mass production of electrical equipment in the Gilded Age. However living conditions were bad, sickness was common and the environment was destroyed. |
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Home rule |
During reconstruction was one of the South's biggest goals. Home rule was the idea of returning power and control of the south from the North back to the South. Accomplished in the Compromise of 1877 and aided by Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plan. Southerners thought that home rule would allow the south to return to the golden age. |
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Columbian Exchange |
The exchange of goods, animals, plants and viruses from the Americas back to Europe, Asia and Africa. The importation of viruses such as smallpox into the Americas wiped out approximately 90% of Indians living in the Americas. This, in combination with the mass slaughter of buffalo brought great confusion and fear to Indians and shook the very core of their beliefs and way of life. |
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire occurred in New York at a shirtwaist factory. The fire killed a large amount of women in a horrific manner. The fire prompted the city of New York to pass new labor laws and regulations on factories. Led to social welfare regulation. Changed the idea that the government shouldn't help those in need. |
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Gifford Pinchot |
An environmental conservationist during the Progressive Era in the early 1900s. Pinchot believed that men should be able to use the US's natural resources under a set of rules created by the government. He believed this would be beneficial to the US and would help its citizens. |
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Alfred Thayer Mahan |
A US navy officer during the early 1900s, Mahan believed that the US should be more aggressive internationally and supported Imperialism. Mahan believed that since the US had been looked down upon so kindly by God that the US had the right to impose its will internationally. He believed that since the US was so strong that they had the right to do what they wanted internationally to compete with other nations. |
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"settling up" |
"Settling up" was when farmers attempted to pay off the debts they owed to merchants from who they had purchased goods from. Most of the time farmers were left in debt, accruing more and more debt each year. This led to merchants suggesting farmers to plant a certain crop, further decreasing the value of that crop since multiple farmers would now plant that crop. |
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Jane Addams |
A woman during the Progressive Era who helped create settlement houses. Believed that woman should be allowed to continue their work in the public sphere and tried to prove that through her work. Thought women should be allowed to be clean up the cities that resulted from the Gilded Age. |
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Black Codes |
Laws that Andrew Johnson allowed to be passed during Reconstruction. The black codes allowed for legal white supremacy and a return of slave-like conditions for blacks. Vagrancy laws forced blacks to work in harsh and unfair conditions and blacks were also punished more harshly for breaking laws. |
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Big Stick Diplomacy |
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deskilling |
During the Gilded Age, the act of taking apart a skilled job or technique into smaller parts that required little skill and could be taught quickly. Allowed for factories to efficiently mass produce goods and quickly replace workers. |
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Hiram Revels |
The first black senator in the USA, was an indication of the success of the 15th Amendment that allowed blacks to vote. Also represented the zenith of black rights during reconstruction as blacks were voting en mass supporting Republicans. |
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Social Darwinism |
The idea that if one failed in America it was due to their poor genetics or lack of grit and determination. But it was not due to their environment or situation. This idea was common in the Gilded Age but reversed in the Progressive Era. |
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"Jingos" |
US senators elected in the early 1900s, jingos favored an aggressive international stance by the US. Jingos clamored for war against Spain and encouraged the US in general to be very imperialistic. |
