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35 Cards in this Set
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What are the two groups in the guilded age? |
Tramps and millionaires |
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Workers union |
People from all genders and races joined together against the working conditions |
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First union? |
National Labor Union (NLU) |
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Scab |
Someone who works during a strike |
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William 'Boss' Tweed |
Stole millions of dollars from the city with help from his Tweed ring. He was able to pass a new city charter allowing him and his friends to control the city treasury. |
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Tammary Hall |
Political machine, was eventually moved somewhere else |
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Who was in the Tweed ring? |
Tweed, Mayor Hall, Peter Sweeny, and Connolly |
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Harper's weekly? |
Printed articles exposing Tweed and his cronies. Eventually took them down. |
Newspaper! |
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What happened to Tweed? |
Tweed was convicted, sent to prison, released, reprisoned, then escaped |
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Thomas Nast |
Harshest critic toward Tweed and his men. Illustrated terrible cartoons about them. |
He's an illustrator |
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Why did immigrants come to America? |
Work! |
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Where did millions of Americans move? |
The city! |
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Childhood labor? |
Kids would quit school to work to support their family |
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Factory work |
Increasing efficiency. Paid by what they produced. Some employers sped up machines. Endangered workers health and safety. |
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Strict work environment in factories |
-Factory work ruled by clock, farm at own pace -Performed one small task over and over and over -Discipline was strict -Poor conditions, in 1882, average workers killed per week 675 |
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Women in work place? |
Confined to low skilled. Low wage jobs. |
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Children in work place? |
In the 1880s children made up more than 5% of the workforce |
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Connective bargaining |
Workers as a group negotiate with the employers |
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Why did workers begin striking? |
Opposition to horrible conditions and lack of rights |
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Where did the old immigrants come from? |
Northern Europe |
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Who were the old immigrants? |
Protestants from northern Europe. Skilled workers. |
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Where did new immigrants come from? |
Southern Europe |
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Who were the new immigrants? |
Catholics and jews. Unskilled workers trying to survive. |
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How did people react to the new immigrants? |
Terribly. They got angry and created mobs. Nativism. |
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Why would people leave their homelands? |
Famine, persecution, economic reasons, and war. |
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Why did they come to America? |
Jobs and religious freedom |
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Why did so little immigrants come from china? |
Chinese exclusion act. They are very different from Americans. |
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Manifest destiny |
Widely held belief in that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent |
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Union Pacific RR? |
Started in Nebraska, moved west. Irish immigrant workers. |
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Central pacific RR? |
Started in California and moved east. Chinese immigrant workers. |
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Homestead act |
FREE PUBLIC LAND |
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Morrill Land Grant Act |
Expanded land for colleges to focus on agriculture and the arts |
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Bonanza farms |
Very large farms producing large amounts of wheat Machinery Cheap abundant land |
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Assimilation |
Giving up ones own culture and traditions to become more like another |
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Battle of wounded knee |
-Creation of Ghost Dance -Land and way of life restored -massacre of unarmed Native Americans by America soldiers -300 were killed |
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