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85 Cards in this Set
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Gilded Age |
1865-1900 Ulysses S. Grant The near-west to far west. The consistent appointments by spoils system lead to mass corruption, leading to an age dominated by big bosses, only ended by progressives busting in. |
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Homestead Act |
1862 Abraham Lincoln West To help make the land to the west more productive, the act provided settlers up to 160 acres for living on said land for 5 years and improving it. This was somewhat effective; however, the land proved hard to irrigate, mostly barren, and inhabited. |
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Union Pacific Railroad |
1869 Chinese, Settlers Trans-America |
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Crazy Horse |
Death-1877 Crazy Horse, Custer Fort Robinson, Northwest Nebraska Fought to keep the army off his native land. His death marked the end of Oglala resistance. The fight had been over being relocated off all their land. Brutally showed the consequence of natives trying to keep their land and culture. Americans didn't care. |
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Sitting Bull |
Death-1890 Sitting Bull Grand River, South Dakota Fought to protect what little land the Sioux had left. Was angered by the unjust attack on him. |
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George Armstrong Custer |
1877 Crazy Horse, Custer Black Hills Battle of little bighorn |
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Carlisle Indian School |
1879 Native Americans Pennsylvania |
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Dawes Allotment Act |
1887 Native Americans, Congress Reservations |
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Ghost Dance |
1889 Paiute, Wovoka Plains |
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Wovoka |
1889 Paiute Northern Paiute |
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Comstock Lode |
1859 Settlers, Miners, Investors Nevada |
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Wounded Knee |
1890 Sioux, Sitting Bull, Soldiers South Dakota |
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show |
1883 to 1890s (1913) Buffalo Bill Cody, Native Americans East America, Britian |
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Chinese Exclusion Act |
1882 Chinese, Californians California, China, West |
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Social Darwinism |
Late 19th century Hurbert Spencer, William Graham America |
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Gospel of Wealth |
1889 Andrew Carnegie America |
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Second Industrial Revolution |
1860s (1870-1914) ~ America (Chicago) Starting with the cheap production of steel, was the wave on which American companies rode to lead america to being the most industrialized country on earth. |
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Robber Barons |
1870 Carnegie, Rockefeller, New industries The average worker felt it unfair that he made $7 a week, while a robber baron made millions. The pay gap is again relevant in our own times. Part of the reason a progressive tax would later be implemented. |
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Vertical Integration |
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Horizontal Integration |
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Andrew Carnegie |
1872 (most up-to-date steel mill) by 1900: Well known Steel, Banking |
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John D. Rockefeller |
1882: created the trust Oil |
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Ida Tarbell |
Muckraker 1904 oil |
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Standard Oil Company |
1882 |
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United States Steel |
1901 |
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Oligopoly |
When only a few firms manage the vast majority of the market. |
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Monopoly |
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WCTU |
1873 Susan B. Anthony East-> Trans-America Initilay only for temperance, later became a sign of women's rights, suffrage, shorter working days, and anti-child labor. It's mass membership proved women's willingness to take a stand. |
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Susan B. Anthony |
1873 WCTU Leader, Reformer, Feminist New York Protested for women's suffrage, anti-slavery, and temperance. Thought of drunkenness as a cause of poverty. Gave feminists a leader to rally around, and a common goal to fight for. |
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Sherman Antitrust Act |
1890 Benjamin Harrison, John Sherman, Trusts US, Europe |
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Depression of 1893 |
1893 Everyone, Populists US, Europe Sudden dip in Wheat prices and backing out of gold by Europeans caused a mass stock sale and run on the banks. Largest unemployment to date. Proved the fragility of American banking. |
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Terence V. Powderly |
1879-1893 Leader of K of L Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania His poor administration abilities help lead the K of L to their unorganized doom. |
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Samuel Gompers |
1886-1894 AFL Leader, anti-socialist UK->US Promoted Harmony among craft unions, and did his best to deal instead of strike. |
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Great Railroad Strike |
1877 Workingmen's Party Martinsburg, West Virginia Showed the US the kind of large scale damage Unions could rage upon companies. |
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Knights of Labor |
1869 Anyone US It's sudden growth showed the worker's interest in labor unions, and its all inclusiveness was revolutionary in nondiscrimination. Was Destroyed by the Haymarket bombing and Panic of 1893 |
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American Federation of Labor |
1886 Labor Union, Professionals, Gompers Industrial Centers Its strength, longevity, and influence proved that labor unions were here to stay. |
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Haymarket Bombing |
1886 Federation of Labor Unions, K of L Haymarket Square, Chicago, Illinois Associated Anarchism with Unionism. 8 arrested, only one with evidence. |
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Coney Island |
1897 George Tilyou Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, New York Cheap entertainment |
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William Magear Tweed |
1858 Democrat Big Boss Tammany Hall, New York; died in jail Gifted out jobs, bribes, and laundered between $25-45 million from taxes. |
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Lincoln Steffens |
1902-1904 (Shame of the Cities) Reporter, Muckraker, Ida Tarbell, Ray Baker New York, McClure's magazine Investigated to show Americans the corruption within politics and government, specifically big city bosses. Preferred revolution to reform. |
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Pullman Strike |
1894 Debs, George Pullman, AFL, Cleveland Pullman, Chicago; US |
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Eugene V. Debs |
1893(ARU), 1894(Strike), 1901(Party), 1905(IWW) Socialist, ARU Leader, IWW Indiana |
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Fredrick W. Taylor |
1911(Principles of Sci Management) American Mechanical Engineer Industrial Engineering |
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Scientific Management |
1880s-1910s, 1911(Book) Taylor, Progressives, Unions Manufacturing Management |
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Old Immigrants |
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New Immigrants |
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Jacob Riis |
1890 Muckraker, Police Journalist, Photographer Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York |
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How the other half lives |
1890 Jacob Riis, Middle/Upper Class vs Poor Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York |
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Social Gospel |
1877(Gladden) Mark A. Matthews, Jane Addams, YMCA Protestant Christendom |
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Jane Addams |
1889(House), 1898(Anti-imperialism), Settlement reformer, Author, Women's suffrage Chicago, Illinois Nobel Prize winner |
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Settlement house movement |
1880s, peak 1920s Jane Addams, Progressives Urban centers, US/UK |
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Hull House |
1889 Jane Addams, (Ellen Gates Starr) Chicago, Illinois |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
1901-1909 McKinley Vice/ Republican Progressive Prez America, Navy, New York |
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William Randolph Hearst |
1895-1898 Yellow Journalist Maine, Cuban Revolt |
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Spanish-American War |
1898 Roosevelt, McKinley, Hearst Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam 1898 Treaty of Paris |
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Open Door Notes |
1899 John Hay, America, China, Europe |
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Panama Canal |
1904-1914 Roosevelt, Philipe Bunae-Varilla Panama, France, America |
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Philippine Insurrection |
1899-1902 Roosevelt, Emilio Aguinaldo Philippines, America |
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Monroe Doctrine |
1823 James Monroe Americas, Europe (Britain/Spain) |
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Roosevelt Corollary |
1904 Roosevelt, Europeans(Britain), Bankers Venezuela, Europe, America |
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People's Party |
Populist |
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Populist Party |
1892 Populists, Farmers, Bryan, McKinley Rural |
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Farmer's Alliance |
1875(South), 1877(North) Populist, Farmers North (Nebraska) |
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Gold standard |
Ancient Norm-> Republican Capitalist Debtor vs. Banker America |
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Free coinage of silver |
1892 Populist Debtor vs. Banker America |
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Subtreasury plan |
1892 Populist/Farmer Alliance (Bryan) Producer vs. Manufacturer America |
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Election of 1896 |
1896 Bryan, McKinley America: R North, D South |
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Williams Jenings Bryan |
1896, 1900 Populist Democratic Prez Candidate, Secretary of State Nebraska, America |
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William H. McKinley |
1896, 1900 Republican President Ohio, America; Cuba, Philippines |
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Coxey's army |
1894 Jacob Coxey, Unemployed Ohio, Washington DC |
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Progressivism |
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Robert M. La Follette |
1924 Progressive, Congressman, Governor Wisconsin Ran as Progressive President |
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Margaret Sanger |
1914(newsletter), 1916(Clinic) Nurse, writer, sex educator Brooklyn, New York |
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Booker T. Washington |
1881(Leader), 1895(Atlanta Compromise) Slave, Author, Educator Tuskegee Institute, Alabama |
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W. E. B. DuBois |
1905 (organization,) 1935 (Book) Author, leader: Niagara Movement Harvard; Niagara Falls, Ontario; NAACP [Black Reconstruction in America] |
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Plessy vs. Ferguson |
1896 Homer A. Plessy, John H. Ferguson, Races New Orleans |
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NAACP |
1909 Mary White Ovington, William Englich Walling, Henry Moskowitz, Abraham Lincoln Baltimore, New York City |
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Laissez-faire |
1824 "Adam Smith," Free Capitalism Unregulated American Capitalism |
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
1911 Women, Unions, Triangle Waist company Manhattan, New York |
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Upton Sinclair |
1906,1937 Author, Journalist Economic underground |
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The Jungle |
1906 Sinclair, Upper-Middle Class Meat factories, Industrial centers |
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Pure Food and Drug Act |
1906 Sinclair, Congress, Swindlers Meat factories, Pharmacies |
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Meat Inspection Act |
1906 Sinclair, Congress Meat factories, Assembly lines |
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Industrial Workers of the World |
1905-Now Debs Haymaker Riot, Industrial Centers |
