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25 Cards in this Set
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Waving the Bloody Shirt
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Republicans reminding of the disloyalty of Democrats
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Compromise of 1877
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Removal of federal troops from the ex-Confederate states and industrialization
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Credit Mobilier
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Illegal manipulation of construction contracts for the Union Pacific Railroad that became a symbol of corruption after the American Civil War.
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
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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. The act provided for some government jobs to be filled on the basis of competitive exams.
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Laissez-Faire
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No government intervention
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Robber Barons
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Term used in the 19th century United States for businessmen and bankers who dominated respective industries and amassed huge personal fortunes
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Andrew Carnegie
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A Scottish man who made a steel empire in the U.S
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Interstate Commence Act
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The Interstate Commerce Act was enacted in 1887 to regulate the railroad giants across the nation
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Haymarket Square Riot
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Someone throws a bomb to the cops and people end up dead because of that
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Pullman Strike
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nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894
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New Immigration
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Immigration policies equalized and new more immigrants go to U.S.
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William “Boss” Tweed
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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
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Jane Addams
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Founder of the U.S. settlement House act, anti-socialist
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Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
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Too many Chinese going to U.S., Americans get racist and persuade government to ban any Chinese immigrants from landing on U.S.
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Homestead Act
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A way to give land to the settlers
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Joseph Glidden
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Patented barbed wire, which changed the development of the American West
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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American writer best known as the author of Ramona, a novel about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California.
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Dawes Severalty Act
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To provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians.
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Safety Valve Theory
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when hard times came, the unemployed who cluttered the city pavements merely moved west, took up farming, and prospered.
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Social Darwinism
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Ideologies that believe that social evolution of human society
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Social Gospel
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Movement applied to social problems such as alcoholism, injustice, and racial tensions
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Populist Party
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The party did not remain a lasting feature most probably because it had been so closely identified with the free silver movement which did not resonate with urban voters and ceased to become a major issue as the U.S came out of the recession of the 1890s
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Omaha Platform
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The planks themselves represent the merger of the agrarian concerns of the Farmers' Alliance with the free-currency monetarism of the Greenback Party while explicitly endorsing the goals of the largely urban Knights of Labor
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William McKinley
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25th president of the U.S., high tariffs on imports as a formula for prosperity
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Cross of Gold Speech
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Was presented to rally of support of gold to stop inflation
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