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45 Cards in this Set
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met in Ogden, Utah (promontory point) signed by abraham lincoln to allow money for; railroad across the country |
transcontinental railroad |
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european ideal that we were meant to rule all of north america |
manifest destiny |
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end political corruption, fix money supply with minting of silver coins, end high prices of railroads by having the government take them over |
populism |
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primarily reformers, white protestant, middle class; focused on conservation, social justice, political democracy, and economic equality |
progressive era/ party |
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replaced the reservation system with an allocation system; each family given 160 acre farmstead |
dawes allomant act |
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make to be like groups around them |
assimilation |
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carnige, vanderbilt, rockefeller, jp morgan |
business tycoons |
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oil: standard oil company |
john d rockefeller |
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steel: carnige steel |
andrew carnige |
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railroads |
cornelius vanderbilt |
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industrialist, financier, chairman of carnige steel, union buster |
henry frick |
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banking and finance |
j.p. morgan |
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american financier and railroad executive from NY; who after the death of his wife, olivia sage, used his fortune to establish the Russel Sage Foundation 1907 and the women’s college 1916 |
russel sage |
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urbanization, rats, trash, sewage, babies dying from dz |
characteristics of the industrial revolution |
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prohibited all immigration of chinese; 10 yrs ineligible for naturalization |
chinese exclusion act |
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skilled workers only; non-political, higher wages, improve working conditions. leader- Samuel Gompers,wanted to end child labor, monopolies, and trusts |
american federation of labor |
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open to all (blacks, whites, men, women, skilled, unskilled); fought to make each man his own employer. leader- terrance powderly |
knights of labor |
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lead by “mother” mary harris jones from west Virginia |
united mine workers |
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leader of the american federation of labor |
samuel gompers |
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leader of the american railway union (open to skilled and unskilled) |
eugene debs |
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political group in which a boss or small group command the support of key supporters and businesses that receive rewards for their efforts |
political machines |
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corrupt politician who controlled much of NY politics to make himself money |
boss tweed |
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awarded gov jobs to key supporters/ party workers |
spoils system |
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law saying you had to do well in civil service exam get some gov jobs |
pendleton civil service act |
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able to read and know stuff about US and pass it |
pendleton civil service exam |
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wrote by upton sinclair; exposed the meat packing industry |
the jungle |
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journalists and photographers who exposed the abuses of wealth and power |
muckrakers |
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wrote the jungle |
upton sinclaire |
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author of “how the other half lives” and “ the bitter cry of the children” |
jacob riis |
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a political cartoonist who brought attention to tweed’s corruption |
thomas nast |
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wrote by jacob riis, told of the living condition of the urban poor, focused on tenements |
how the other half lives |
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early suffragist, voted illegally in 1872 and was convicted |
susan b anthony |
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creator of hull house in chicago, IL |
jane addams |
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offered cultural events, classes, childcare, employment, assistance, and healthcare |
hull house |
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american forester and politician that served under president Rossevelt as the first chief of the US forrest service |
gifford pinchot |
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1909 payne-aldrich tariff, mann-elkins act, the children bureau, bureau of mines, conservation, antitrust suit against US steel |
president howard taft progressive reforms |
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allowed federal gov to collect income tax |
16th amendment |
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direct election of US senators and representatives by popular vote |
17th amendment |
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prohibition of alcohol |
18th amendment |
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women’s voting rights |
19th amendment |
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outlawed any trust that operated in restraint of trade or commerce among several states |
sherman anti-trust act |
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strengthened current laws by defining what a business could or couldn’t do |
clayton anti-trust act |
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purpose was to reduce taxes on manufactured and semi- manufactured goods to elminate duties on most raw materials |
underwood tariff |
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central banking system of the US to alleviate financial crisis |
federal reserve |
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16th amendment, underwood tariff act, federal reserve act, federal trade commission, clayton antitrust act |
president woodrow wilson- progressive reforms |
