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1. Waving the Bloody Shirt
the demagogic practice of politicians referencing the blood of martyrs or heroes to inspire support or avoid criticism
2. Compromise of 1877
an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election.
3. Credit Mobilier
involved the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier of America construction company. The distribution of Credit Mobilier stocks by Congressman Oakes Ames along with cash bribes to congressmen took place during the Andrew Johnson presidency in 1868
4. Pendleton Civil Service Act
established the United States Civil Service Commission, which placed most federal government employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called spoils system.
5. Laissez-Faire
allowing industry to be free of state intervention, especially restrictions in the form of tariffs and government monopolies
6. Robber Barons
name given to unscrupulous and despotic nobility of the medieval period.
7. Andrew Carnegie
was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist. He was one of the most famous leaders of industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
8. Interstate Commence Act
was a regulatory body in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which was signed into law by President Grove Cleveland. The agency was abolished in 1995, and the agency's remaining functions were transferred to the Surface Transportation Board.
9. Haymarket Square Riot
a disturbance that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago, and began as a rally in support of striking workers.
10. Pullman Strike
a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894. The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois on May 11 when approximately 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
11. New Immigration
a wave of immigrants that came to the U.S.
12. William “Boss” Tweed
an American politician most famous for his leadership of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York.
13. Jane Addams
a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
14. Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
a United States federal law signed into law by Chester A. Arthur on May 8, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868.
15. Homestead Act
one of several United States Federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title up to 160 acres of undeveloped land outside of the original 13 colonies
16. Joseph Glidden
an American farmer who patented barbed wire, a product that forever altered the development of the American West.
17. Helen Hunt Jackson
an American writer best known as the author of Ramona, a novel about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California.
18. Dawes Severalty Act
the act provided for the division of tribally held lands into individually owned parcels and opening "surplus" lands to settlement by non-Indians and development by railroads.
19. Safety Valve Theory
a theory about how to deal with unemployment which gave rise to the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States. Given the concentration of immigrants on the Eastern coast, it was hypothesized that making free land available in the West, would relieve the pressure for employment in the East. By analogy with steam pressure, the enactment of a free land law, it was believed, would act as a safety valve.
20. Social Darwinism
pejorative term referring to ideologies that believe the social evolution of human society should be directed through artificial selection or deliberate conflict between individuals, groups, nations, and ideas.
21. Social Gospel
a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially justice, inequality, liquor, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, weak labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.
22. Populist Party
a name used by parties who practice or claim to practice Populism as a political philosophy, a rhetorical or political methodology style, or both.
23. Omaha Platform
the party program adopted at the formative convention of the Populist (or People's) Party held in Omaha, Nebraska on July 4, 1892.
24. William McKinley
the 25th President of the United States, and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected to the office. He was the last President to serve in the nineteenth century and the first to serve in the twentieth.
25. Cross of Gold Speech
delivered by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896. The speech advocated bimetallism. Following the Coinage Act, the United States abandoned its policy of bimetallism and began to operate a de facto gold standard.