gilded age

Question 1

war of currents

Answer 1

edison v tesla

Question 2

nativism

Answer 2

anti immigrants

Question 3

what did middlemen do

Answer 3

helped immigrants find employment and housing; charged for services

Question 4

what immigrants were primarily targeted

Answer 4

catholics and jews from southern and eastern europe; asians

Question 5

apa

Answer 5

american protection association; anti immigrant

limited catholic rights to protect protestant jobs

Question 6

irl

Answer 6

immigrant restriction league
literacy test (assuming southern and eastern europeans would fail)

Question 7

naturalization act

Answer 7

1870
limited citizens to white and black people
prevent chinese from becoming citizens
not lifted until 1943

Question 8

chinese exclusion act

Answer 8

1882

pushed by nativists and labor unions

Question 9

graft

Answer 9

political corruption for personal gain

Question 10

patronage

Answer 10

give friends jobs

Question 11

tammany hall

Answer 11

patronage

Question 12

mugwamps

Answer 12

republicans

voted for cleveland over james blaine bc of scandals

Question 13

stalwarts

Answer 13

in favor of patronage

Question 14

half breeds

Answer 14

in favor of civil service reform

Question 15

grant

Answer 15

corruption
whiskey ring
credit mobilier scandal
republican

Question 16

compromise of 1877

Answer 16

hayes (repub) won election
republicans withdrew from south
reconstruction ended

Question 17

garfield

Answer 17

assassinated
stalwart
led to pendleton civil service reform act

Question 18

chester a arthur

Answer 18

stalwart to half breed
elected through spoils system
abandoned it
one and done

Question 19

grange

Answer 19

1866-1880s

Question 20

farmers alliance

Answer 20

1880s-1892

Question 21

populist party

Answer 21

1892-1920

omaha platform

Question 22

omaha platform

Answer 22

direct election of senators
use of initiative and referendums
unlimited coinage of silver
graduated income tax
8 hour day
becomes ruling doctrine of 2 parties

Question 23

election of 1896

Answer 23

decline of populists
couldn’t unite poor whites and blacks
platform adopted by 2 parties

Question 24

william jennings bryan

Answer 24

democratic nominee 4 times
unlimited coinage of silver
fueled by panics of 1873 and 1893

Question 25

illinois constitution 1870

Answer 25

wanted to regulate discrimination in rates for railroads

Question 26

munn v illinois

Answer 26

gov could regulate any business with public interest for good of ppl

Question 27

national anti monopoly league

Answer 27

1881 new york railroad reforms

Question 28

wabash v illinois

Answer 28

states could not regulate interstate railroad traffic | railroad legislation useless

Question 29

interstate commerce act

Answer 29

cleveland 1887 no discriminatory rates interstate commerce commission

Question 30

ICC

Answer 30

irrelevant | couldn't fix rates

Question 31

trusts

Answer 31

monopolies railroads oil steel

Question 32

first wave of titans

Answer 32

more aggressive with spending | jay gould, etc.

Question 33

vertical integration

Answer 33

carnegie | control all processes

Question 34

horizontal integration

Answer 34

rockefeller | buy out competition

Question 35

great railroad strike 1877

Answer 35

bc of wage cuts in railroads railroad burning inspired rise of labor unions all across country

Question 36

knights of labor

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most powerful union following GRS 1877 wanted 8 hour work day equal pay for women included minorities both skilled and unskilled believed in boycotts and arbitration not strikes political reform and graduated income tax

Question 37

american federation of labor

Answer 37

``` samuel gompers separate craft unions skilled labor only aristocracy of labor collective bargaining ```

Question 38

collective bargaining

Answer 38

similar jobs (not same) unite to have stronger argument

Question 39

american railway union

Answer 39

great northern railway strike pullman strikes will develop into socialists

Question 40

industrial workers of the world

Answer 40

wobblies goal is one big union of all workers no discrimination

Question 41

eugene debs

Answer 41

american railway union | socialist party

Question 42

terence v. powderly

Answer 42

knights of labor

Question 43

mother jones

Answer 43

wobblies

Question 44

samuel gompers

Answer 44

american federation of labor

Question 45

big bill hollywood

Answer 45

wobblies and western federation of miners

Question 46

pinkerton agency

Answer 46

regulate labor movement

Question 47

haymarket affair

Answer 47

``` 8 hour day workers in chicago someone threw bomb one officer killed then, six later bad for knights of labor ```

Question 48

homestead strike

Answer 48

``` carnegie plant in PA hired new nonunion workers when they protested pinkerton agents to protect new workers shots fired plant ended with nonunion workers ```

Question 49

coxey's army

Answer 49

marched to d.c. to end unemployment | panic of 1893

Question 50

molly maguires

Answer 50

miners- irish immigrants | attacked and sometimes killed mine leaders

Question 51

lawrence strike 1912

Answer 51

14,000 strikers different countries diff languagess protesting pay cuts

Question 52

ludlow strikes 1914

Answer 52

against rockefeller wanted more wages, less work time ludlow massacre- 20 ppl killed

Question 53

triangle shirt factory

Answer 53

1914 146 people killed new reforms