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Waving the Bloody Shirt
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the demagogic practice of politicians referencing the blood of martyrs or heroes to inspire support or avoid criticism
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Compromise of 1877
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The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election. Through it, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops that were propping up Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana
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Credit Mobilier
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The Crédit Mobilier of America scandal of 1872 involved the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier of America construction company. The distribution of Crédit Mobilier stocks by Congressman Oakes Ames along with cash bribes to congressmen took place during the Andrew Johnson presidency in 1868
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
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The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403) of United States federal law 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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In economics, laissez-faire means allowing industry to be free of state intervention, especially restrictions in the form of tariffs and government monopolies. The phrase is French and literally means "let do", though it broadly implies "let it be" or "leave it alone."
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Robber Barons
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Robber baron is a term revived in the 19th century United States for 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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Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist.
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Interstate Commence Act
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created the Interstate Commerce Commission, the first true federal regulatory agency. It was designed to address the issues of railroad abuse and discrimination and required the following:
- Shipping rates had to be "reasonable and just" - Rates had to be published - Secret rebates were outlawed - Price discrimination against small markets was made illegal. |
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Haymarket Square Riot
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On May Day 1886, the workers at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. in Chicago began a strike in the hope of gaining a shorter work day. On May 3, police were used to protect strikebreakers and a scuffle broke out; one person was killed and several others injured.
The following day, May 4, a large rally was planned by anarchist leaders to protest alleged police brutality. A crowd of 20,000 demonstrators was anticipated at Haymarket Square, where area farmers traditionally sold their produce. Rain and unseasonable cold kept the numbers down to between 1,500 to 2,000. The gathering was peaceful until a police official, in contravention of the mayor's instructions, sent units into the crowd to force it to disperse. At that juncture, a pipe bomb was thrown into the police ranks; the explosion took the lives of seven policemen and injured more than 60 others. The police fired into the crowd of workers, killing four. |
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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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William “Boss” Tweed
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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. At the height of his influence, Tweed was the third-largest landowner in New York City, a director of the Erie Railway, the Tenth National Bank, and the New-York Printing Company, as well as proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel.
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Jane Addams
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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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The Chinese Exclusion Act was 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. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years.
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Homestead Act
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The Homestead Act was 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. The new law required three steps: file an application, improve the land, and file for deed of title. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. Government, including freed slaves, could file an application and improvements to a local land office.
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Joseph Glidden
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an American farmer who patented barbed wire, a product that forever altered the development of the American 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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enacted on February 8, 1887, regarding the distribution of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma.
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Safety Valve Theory
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The safety valve theory was a 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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Social Darwinism is 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
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Social Gospel
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The Social Gospel movement is 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
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Populist Party
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was a short-lived political party in the United States in the late 19th century. 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 party program adopted at the formative convention of the Populist Party held in Omaha, Nebraska on July 4, 1892.
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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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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 (1873), the United States abandoned its policy of bimetallism and began to operate a de facto gold standard
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