Unit 5 Review Terms

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Waving the Bloody Shirt

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Republicans reviving the memory of southern Democratic disloyalty during the Civil War

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Compromise of 1877

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Informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential Election.

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Credit Mobilier

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American scandel of 1872 involved the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier of American Construction Company.

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Pendleton Civil Service Act

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regulated and improved the Civil Service in the United States
placed most federal government employees on the merit system and marked the end of the ‘spoils system’.

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Laissez-Faire

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allowing industry to be free of state intervention, especially restrictions in the form of tariffs and government monopolies

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Robber Barons

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businessmen and bankers who dominated respective industries and amassed huge personal fortunes, typically by anti-competitive or unfair business practices.

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Andrew Carnegie

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He was one of the most famous leaders of industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Interstate Commence Act

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He was one of the most famous leaders of industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
It was the first true federal regulatory agency. It regulated shipping rates, ensured that they were published and made price discrimination against small buisnesses illegal.

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Haymarket Square Riot

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a disturbance that began as rally in support of striking workers until someone threw a bomb.

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Pullman Strike

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happened when workers started a strike for having unfair pay and rent cost for living in the town of Pullman. They got paid $9.07 a week, but paid $9 a week for rent.
A nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads

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William “Boss” Tweed

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Tweed was a New York City politician who led a group of corrupt politicians who gained power in the Democratic party in 1863, when Tweed was elected
“Grand Sachem” 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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was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

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allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese Immigration.

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Homestead Act

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People could own 160 acres of land outside the thirteen colonies as long as they sign a waiver, take care of the land, and produce goods on the land.

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Joseph Glidden

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The man who patented barbed wire, which changed the development of the United States in the west.

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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an 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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distribution of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma.

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Safety Valve Theory

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theory about how to deal with unemployment which gave rise to the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States.

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Social Darwinism

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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.

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Social Gospel

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late 19th and early 20th century Protestant Christian intellectual and social movement which applied progressive Christian ethics to dealing with social issues.

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Populist Party

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a short-lived political party in the United States in the late 19th century

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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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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.

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Cross of Gold Speech

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Democratic Party wanted to standardize value of the dollar to silver and opposed a monometallic gold standard. The inflation that would result from the silver standard would make it easier for farmers and other debtors to pay off their debts by increasing their revenue dollars.