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77 Cards in this Set
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Tweed ring |
Mafia type group, manipulation of officials. "Boss" mid 1800s |
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Crash of 1873 |
over producing, more factories being build fast, Rail roads being used, farms over produce |
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Resumption Act f 1875 |
Grant wants to pull in greenbacks to raise the price back up in exchange for gold by 1879 |
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Jumbliee Jim Fisk and Jay Gould |
tried to purhase as much gold as they could and drive up the price to sell, driving people into debt 1870sish |
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Contraction Policy |
1875 Keep pulling in money to force the ace value to return, hurts short term and depression but helps long term |
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Patronage |
idea of giving out jobs to get votes. the power to control appointments to office or the right to privileges. pro Stalwarts and con Halfbreads Rosco Conkling and James Belaine 1876 |
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Rutherford B Hayes |
"Great unknown" president who runs in 1876. Republican. proper vote counting was an issue against Samuel Tilden |
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Samuel Tilden |
Problems with vote counting |
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Election Count Act |
1877 nominate indivuduals from the senate, HOR and supreme court to count the votes in the questionable states. (No balance and they did not have equal amounts of both parties) |
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Compromise of 1877 |
Democrats agree that if republicans wins, the government will remove the military influence in the South. (South able to go back to original state before the war, black freedom lost) |
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Civil Rights Act of 1875 |
Force Act, law guarantee blacks will get equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury service
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Crops-lien system |
share cropping to keep blacks suppressed, kept them indebted to land owners mid 1800s |
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Jim Crow laws |
segregated society into blacks and whites, introduces poll taxes that keep blacks from being able to vote. Separate but equal |
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Plessy Vs Ferguson |
1896, man who is 1/8th black pleads to be treated as a white man, taken by supreme court and Plessy loses. |
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Kearnyites |
Dennis Kerney, Irish, opposed to Chinese employment, encourages discrimination, leads to Chinese exclusion act |
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Chinese Exclusion Act |
1882 Gov chooses to make it illegal for chinese immigration instead of saying the Kearnyites were wrong. let discrimination happen |
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James Garfield |
Republican. President in 1880, assassinated after Charles Guitgau thought he was going to get a job through patronage |
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Chester Arthur |
1880 becomes president after assassination. Republican |
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Pendleton Act of 1883 |
federal employees cannot support a president financially (keep it fair and not corrupt) Have to pass an exam to become an official instead of buying their way |
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Gorver Cleavland |
1884 morally corrupt because he fathered an illligament child. clean with everything else and weakens his campaign in 1884 that is more morally focused Democrat wins government should do nothing comes back in 90s as more assertive |
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Benjamin Harrison |
Republican high tariff, raised 3 mill to campaign not very significant |
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McKinley Tariff Act |
1890 raise tariff to very high level, industries thrived, famers weakened, leads to political movement |
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populists |
James Waver, new political party, designed to help farmers, inflate value of dollar, graduated income tax, nationalize railroads, direct election of senators and term limit of presidency S. refsed to follow because they supported blacks |
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Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 |
Cleveland attempts to repeal use of silver William James Brain is for silver production forced further economic pressure and almost had loss of vaule |
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Wilson-Gorman Tariff |
1894 decrease tariff rates and later realized that it benefited the wealthier more. later ruled as unconstitutional |
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Main Railroads |
Union Pacific- post civil war going westward Central Pacific- CA traveling East to meet UPR North Pacific-land grant Archean +Topeka +Santa Fe- land grant South Pacific- land grant Great North- James J Hill |
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Cornelius Vanderbilt |
successful business and very wealthy and expands East Railroad to offer lower rates on shipping, produces steel RR and produces a standard gauge, added air breaks, passenger RR |
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Interstate Commerce Act |
1887 regulates commerce and travel, prohibits pools in RR and outlawed overcharging |
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Carnegie Intergration |
steel production, produces integration, owns every piece from start to finish in process |
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Horizontal integration |
takes every company and bids them together or buy strong companies to eliminate competition |
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Bessemer Process |
allows Carnegie to thrive, creates Bessemer steel |
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Carnegie Steel |
Pennsylvania produces bessmer steel, making tons of money, 1/4th of all countries steel comes from here |
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J.P. Morgan |
rich banker, involved in pipe making business, offers 400 million to Carnegie steel company. changes its name to U.S. Steel. 1901 |
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Rockefeller |
finds new uses to kerosene uses in gas |
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Plutocracy |
no regulations, strong business survives , not governments job to step in 1900s |
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Sherman Anti-Trust of 1890 |
forbid the practice of one big owner taking over many small business (horizontal integration) no one enforced until 1914 |
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National Labor Union |
employees were fired if they were apart, fed gov had military step in. dies in the 1890s |
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Knights of Labor |
secret society labor union, all workers represented if you dont produce things at work,, you cant join, improving lives of workers and their safety. |
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Haymarket Square |
May 4, 1886, large downtown type setting. bomb exploded @ a labor strike, killing many. 8 people found apart of Knights of Labor. People looked down of the KOL because of this, essentially destroying them |
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John Altgeld |
Illinois governor, pardons 3 from the Haymarket from life sentence, costing his job as governor |
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American Federation of Labor |
replacement, very similar to skilled labors, supposed to help unskilled workers, non constitutional |
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Samuel Gompers |
leaders of AFL his skill (cigar maker) elected president of AFL. socialist wanted people in lower class to be able to gain from taxes |
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enclaves |
part in a city where people of a similar decent live to maintain their comfortable lives away from everybody else |
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Jane Addams |
Women in charge with mansion, devoted her time to help poor people and immigrants. started a new trend |
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Settlement House |
helped poverty immigrants. helps assimilation political center for women |
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American Protective Association |
urged people to vote against catholic candidates eliminate undesirable people 1887 |
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Roman Catholicism |
James Gibbons dominate speaker, help immigrants assimilate |
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Tuskegee |
Technical school for blacks |
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George Washington carver |
Researcher for Tuskegee. Successful in ag |
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Booker T washinton |
Helped Tuskegee. Former slave opens Alabama Tuskegee 1890 |
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W.e.b. du bois |
Opposite of booker. Only set blacks up for Manuel labor... more supression |
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Morrill act of 1862 |
Money to open up schools but have to have military program |
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Hatch act of 1887 |
Extended funding for research |
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Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Chaplin |
Sisters who challenged Neurology in America to spark change. Produce free love stories in magazines |
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Anthony Comstock |
Call Victoria what Halls idea of free love pornography and was against it |
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Anti-saloon League |
convince local communities and States to become dry 1919 |
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Antebellum Western battles |
1870 - 1880. Indian Wars wanted to remove Indians and reduce their lands called Buffalo Soldiers |
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Sand Creek Colorado |
1864 Native American battle convinced that Native Americans should relocate. John chivington put together militia Roundup Native Americans turned into a bloody massacre |
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Bozeman Trail. Fetterman Massacre |
1866. Montana. Constructing trading Trail North Americans knew they would lose land and try to block fetterman sent to protect and Native Americans took and murdered everyone of his troops |
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Colonel George a Custer and the seventh Calvary |
Black Hills South Dakota. Where gold was discovered. Sent to protect settlers hunted down North Americans who fought back through the 1870s relocated stumbled upon 2500 massive indian warriors of the Little Bigfoot Custer was wiped out |
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Nez perce |
Oregon. Try to retake land military took. Transferred there from Idaho. Then Kansas many died from disease |
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Helen Hunt Jackson |
Rotunda Native American rights. A Century of Dishonor. How bad government treated Native Americans |
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Battle of Wounded Knee |
Christian reformers wanted to destroy native American traditions attacked and killed Native Americans |
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Dawes severalty Act |
1887. Reform Indians government induced dissimulation, removed everything Native Americans had and force them onto Farms and would make them a citizen if they agree |
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Homestead Act |
1860 160 acres for $30 but had to live for five years and make it better |
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Sodbusters |
Very difficult farmland trees and awful farmland new ways of living. Nebraska area |
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Frederick Jackson Turner in the Turner theory |
American history is no more than continuously searching for more Frontier. End of the safety valve. |
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National Grange of the patrons of husbandry |
1860 to 1890. Oliver Kelley, and hand slides of isolated Farmers, brother heard of farmers |
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Grange policies |
State-level involvement helps state to produce grain Silo's |
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William Harvey |
Wrote coins Financial School. Advantage of using silver and gold together. Wizard of Oz |
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Merri lease |
The populist Queen. Direct action by raising hell to get people to get their stuff uses violence. |
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Jacob coxey |
Railroad Strike. Economic downturn. America should relieve unemployment. Wants work release. |
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Eugene V Debs and Pullman |
Pro strikes and labor organizers. Goes because of decrease labors. Rent still the same wants to destroy and shut down Railroad. Chicago |
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Us attorney general Richard Olney |
Troop sentence Chicago to keep Railroad working. Grover Cleveland president. Deb's arrested becomes radicalized |
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William Jennings Bryan |
Democratic from Nebraska. Going to just good. Silver is good. Give speeches to support cornage travels 18000 miles tries his best to get his word out there |
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Dingley tariff bill |
Used to counteract the Wilson Gorman tariff. Wanted to raise the Tariff to protect businesses |
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Gold Standard Act |
Essentially fix economy, all paper money would be collected to give gold to keep face value |
