Period 6 (1865-1898)

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Causes of New markets and monopolies in North America

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Government subsidies for transportation and communication systems opened new markets in North America; monopolies sought to maximize the exploitation of natural resources

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Reasons for looking to overseas markets

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Effort to gain greater influence and control over markets and natural resources in the Pacific, Asia, and Latin America

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Defense of Trusts

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Defended their resulting status and privilege through theories such as Social Darwinism

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Conspicuous consumption

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As cities grew, some segments of American society enjoyed "conspicuous consumption" while others lived in relative poverty

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Effects of immigration on workforce

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Lead to a more diverse workforce, lower wages, and an increase in child labor

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Labor v. Management

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Battled for control over wages and working conditions; workers organized unions in order to combat the corporate power

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New South

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Agrarian sharcropping, and tenant farming systems continued to dominate the region

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Conservationists v. Corporate Entities

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Contended over extension of public control over natural resources, including land and water

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Methods of Farmers' adaptation to new markets

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Created local and regional organizations that ssought to resist corporate control of agricultural markets

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Populist Party Platform

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Called for political reform and a stronger governmental role in the American economic system

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Causes of Urbanization and movement to West

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Increased migration rates from Asia, Europe, and African Americans caused the nation's cities to boom

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Characteristics of cities

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Reflected divided social conditions among classes, races, ethnicities, and cultures

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Americanization andd Maintenance of culture

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African Americans and women, among others, took advantage of new career opportunities even in the face of widespread social prejudices

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Characteristics of Political Machines

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Provided social services in exchange for political support

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Effects of Immigration on Native Americans

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Caused Federal government to violate treaties with American Indian nations in order to expand the amount of land available to settlers

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Causes for violent conflict in the West

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Due to the competition of land in the West among white settlers, Indians, and Mexican Americans

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US Response to Indian Resistance

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Responded with military force, which eventually led to the tribes being seperated and put on reservations

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Public response to government corruption

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Public demanded increased popular control and reform of local, state, and national governments

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Justification of violence towards minorities

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Increasingly prominent racist and nativist theories, alongwith Supreme Court decisions such as Plessy v. Ferguson, wereused to justify violence as well as local and national policies ofdiscrimination and segregation

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Arguments for wealth inequality

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Cultural and intellectual arguments justified their wealth

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Challenges to corporate ethics

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Offered alternate visions of the good society through utopianism and the Social Gospel

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African American and women's arguments

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Argued alternative visions of political, social, and economic quality