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26 Cards in this Set
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social Darwinism |
term coined in the late 19th century to describe the idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest. |
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the gospel of wealth, |
an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. |
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corporate personhood |
the legal notion that a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has some, but not all, of the legal rights and responsibilities enjoyed by natural persons |
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new immigrants (name 3) |
Immigrants from Italy, Russia, Poland and Greece, China and Japan. |
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nativism |
policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants |
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Chinese Exclusion Act |
federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. |
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Knights of Labor |
The largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. The Knights promoted the social and cultural uplift of the workingman, rejected socialism and anarchism, demanded the eight-hour day, and promoted the producers ethic of republicanism. |
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AmericanFederation of Labor (AFL) |
a national federation of labor unions in the United States. It was founded inColumbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor association. |
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Haymarket riot |
the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by the police. An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they acted to disperse the public meeting. |
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Homestead Strike |
an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. |
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Pullman strike |
was a nationwide railroad strikein the United States on May 11, 1894 and a turning point for US labor law. It pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. |
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socialism |
a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole |
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Eugene V.Debs |
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populism, |
is a belief in the power of regular people, and in their right to have control over their government rather than a small group of political insiders or a wealthy elite. |
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13 Amendment |
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. |
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14 Amendment |
addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws |
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15 Amendment |
prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude. |
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Plessy v. Ferguson |
upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". |
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The Great Migration |
the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. |
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the “frontier thesis” |
argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that American democracy was formed by the American frontier. |
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the First Treaty of Fort Laramie |
Treaty between the Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Crow, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara nations. The treaty set forth traditional territorial claims of the tribes as among themselves.[1] The Native Americans guaranteed safe passage forsettlers on the Oregon Trail and allowed roads and forts to be built in their territories |
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DawesAct |
survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. |
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non-reservation boarding schools |
boarding schools established in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to educate Native American children and youths according to Euro-American standards. |
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relocation |
the process of vacating a fixed residence in favour of another |
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reservation |
is a legal designation for an area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, rather than the state governments of the United States in which they are physically located. |
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assimilation policies |
an attempt to destroy traditional Indian cultural identities. |
