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13 Cards in this Set
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agricultural surplus |
-exceeded needs of society -need for advanced farming tools |
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business monopolies |
-company held power to trade -many became popular |
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cross of gold |
-speech given by William Jennings Bryan -supported bimetallism and free silver |
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farmers alliance |
-agricultural movement -1870s & 80s |
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government regulation of food and drugs |
-after life of slaughter houses were exposed |
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grange |
-farmers union -fought against railroad prices |
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granger laws |
-established max. freight and passengers |
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homestead act |
-offered 160 acres of land for farming -only to those who would stay at least 5 years |
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industrialization |
-factories/machines that made it possible to produce more -created the middle class and new jobs |
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Interstate commerce act of 1887 |
-kept check of railroads -government now supervised railroad activites |
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Lassaiz faire |
-means "hands off" -let businesses do as they please, no interference |
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populism |
-influenced the help for farmers -absorbed by democratic party |
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urbanization |
-people moved from the cities to the suburbs -less job opps. |
