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Gilded Age Flashcards

1
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What does Gilded mean

A

Great on the outside but not on the inside

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What was the major source of corruption in 1860s government

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Spoils system

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What is the Spoils Systems

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Allows for Government officials to Elect their friends into office without any qualification

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What caused the split in the republican party

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Spoils system

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What parts did Republicans split into because of the spoils system

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Stalwarts Half Breeds and Independents

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Stalwarts

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Fully Supported the idea of a spoils system

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Half Breed

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Wanted reforms on spoil system but not completely against it

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Independent-spoils system

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Fully against the idea of a spoils system

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9
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What presidents were in the gilded age

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Hayes-McKinley

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10
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Who won 1876 Election

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Hayes won

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11
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What did Hayes think about the spoils system

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against it

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Compromise of 1877

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Hayes agreed to be president if he agreed to end reconstruction

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1880 election winner

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James A Garfield

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14
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What were Garfield’s ideas on Spoil System

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Half Breed

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15
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Who is Garfield’s running mate

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Arthur

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16
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What are Arthurs ideas on the spoil system

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Stalwart

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17
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Who killed James Garfield and why

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Charles Guiteau because he was a Stalwart

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18
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Who ended Spoil System

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Arthur

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19
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What replaces the spoil system

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Pendleton Civil Service

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20
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Who won 1884 Election

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Grover Cleveland

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21
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What are the two first of the 1884 election

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first ever democrat president, first time the running president did not get elected as the nominee

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Grover Clevlands policy 1 term

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opposed tariffs and favored large business

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23
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1888 elections who won

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Harrison

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24
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panic of 1883

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4 YEAR DEPPRESION

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25
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What does Cleveland do about panic of 1883

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nothing

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26
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Who signs Sherman anti trust law and when

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Harrison in 1890

27
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What does Harrison do in order to enforce anti trust

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nothing

28
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1892 election

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Cleveland reruns and wins

29
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1896 election winner

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McKinley

30
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What led to our economy in 1865

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Increases in certain products

31
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What government factors led to the massive boom in 1900

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  • Tariffs on Steels from others
  • Encouraged Railroad construction
  • The Homestead act encouraged wheat and corn production by giving free acres of land to people who grew on land for 5 years
  • Loose immigration policy
  • no taxes on large businesses
32
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Homestead act

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gave people land after 5 years of using it

33
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What boom occured in the late 1800s

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Economic boom with the use of America resources and new technological advances

34
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The Laissez - Faire approach

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  • Created by Adam Smith
  • Least amount of government regulations
35
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Horatio Alger

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Wrote mark the Matchstick Boy and is said to work hard and pays off to make it wealthy

36
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Russell Conwell

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gave Acres of Diamonds sermon saying it was wrong to be poor

37
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Carnegie

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Gospel of wealth

38
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Main Buisness people in the late 1800s

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  • Vanderbilt
  • Rockefeller
  • Carnegie
  • JP Morgan
39
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Vanderbelt

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Sold everything to go into railroad business and became rich

40
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Rockefeller

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Standard oil and controlled 90 percent of oil and was very ravager in his dealings

41
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Carnegie

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Scottish steel man who gave away money

42
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JP Morgan

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Banker who went into steel

43
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Edward Bellamy

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Looking backward and was critic of Lasiez faire

44
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Critics of laissez-faire capitalism

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small business
consumers
social reforms
radicals

45
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Samuel Morse

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Morse Code and then ran out of business because of telephone

46
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Alexander Graham Bell

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Telephone; Atandt

47
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Edison

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1882 built a power plant used DC power and was very expensive and didn’t travel far

48
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George Westinghouse

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Developed AC current and beat Edison to supply the country

49
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James Duke

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American Tabacco Co.; duke university

50
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Northern Greed

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Northern industrialist wanted to keep the south down keep as only source of raw materials

51
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Lewis Hine

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got pictures of kids at work and inspire government to pass child labor laws

52
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Sherman Anti Trust Act

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  • intended to prevent monopolies but originally used by the got against trade unions
53
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National Labor Union

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  • Goals higher wages and 8 hour work week, got it for federal employees
  • was the 1st one to accept everyone (except china)
54
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Knights of Labor

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campaigned for social reforms like health and safety codes

55
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  • Who made the knights of labor
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  • made right after civil war 1869 by Terence Powderly
56
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Why did knights of labor end

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the Hay market square incident in Chicago where a bomb killed several police by anarchist in the group and this ruined their reputation

57
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Who did Knights of labor accept

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everyone except except liquor dealers gamblers lawyers bankers and stock brokers

58
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The Pullman Strike

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Eugene Debs led a strike against Pullman Co. that shut down Chicago-west coast

59
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How did the US government make Pullman strike illegal

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Attorney General Olney had a mail car attached to a train and sent train into Chicago and when striking workers didn’t deliver they said it was illegal

60
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  • American Federation of Labor
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  • Only took skilled laborers; led by Sammuel Gompers; took over Knights of Labors
61
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Grange

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Farmers union that pressured state legislatures to intervene to being railroaded into bankruptcy

62
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Wabash decision

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First real step to regulate commerce

63
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1887 Interstate Commerce Act (ICA)

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Congress can regulate Interstate Commerce with the interstate commerce committee

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