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What does Gilded mean

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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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What presidents were in the gilded age

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Hayes-McKinley

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Who won 1876 Election

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Hayes won

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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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What were Garfield’s ideas on Spoil System

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Half Breed

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Who is Garfield’s running mate

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Arthur

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What are Arthurs ideas on the spoil system

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Stalwart

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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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Who ended Spoil System

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Arthur

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What replaces the spoil system

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Pendleton Civil Service

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Who won 1884 Election

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Grover Cleveland

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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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1888 elections who won

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Harrison

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panic of 1883

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4 YEAR DEPPRESION

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What does Cleveland do about panic of 1883
nothing
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Who signs Sherman anti trust law and when
Harrison in 1890
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What does Harrison do in order to enforce anti trust
nothing
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1892 election
Cleveland reruns and wins
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1896 election winner
McKinley
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What led to our economy in 1865
Increases in certain products
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What government factors led to the massive boom in 1900
- 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
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Homestead act
gave people land after 5 years of using it
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What boom occured in the late 1800s
Economic boom with the use of America resources and new technological advances
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The Laissez - Faire approach
- **Created by Adam Smith** - Least amount of government regulations
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Horatio Alger
Wrote mark the Matchstick Boy and is said to work hard and pays off to make it wealthy
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Russell Conwell
gave Acres of Diamonds sermon saying it was wrong to be poor
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Carnegie
Gospel of wealth
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Main Buisness people in the late 1800s
- Vanderbilt - Rockefeller - **Carnegie** - JP Morgan
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Vanderbelt
Sold everything to go into railroad business and became rich
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Rockefeller
Standard oil and controlled 90 percent of oil and was very ravager in his dealings
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Carnegie
Scottish steel man who gave away money
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JP Morgan
Banker who went into steel
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Edward Bellamy
Looking backward and was critic of Lasiez faire
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Critics of laissez-faire capitalism
small business consumers social reforms radicals
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Samuel Morse
Morse Code and then ran out of business because of telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone; Atandt
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Edison
1882 built a power plant used DC power and was very expensive and didn't travel far
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George Westinghouse
Developed AC current and beat Edison to supply the country
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James Duke
American Tabacco Co.; duke university
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Northern Greed
Northern industrialist wanted to keep the south down keep as only source of raw materials
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Lewis Hine
got pictures of kids at work and inspire government to pass child labor laws
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Sherman Anti Trust Act
- intended to prevent monopolies but originally used by the got against trade unions
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National Labor Union
- Goals higher wages and 8 hour work week, got it for federal employees - was the 1st one to accept everyone (except china)
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Knights of Labor
campaigned for social reforms like health and safety codes
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- Who made the knights of labor
- made right after civil war 1869 by Terence Powderly
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Why did knights of labor end
the Hay market square incident in Chicago where a bomb killed several police by anarchist in the group and this ruined their reputation
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Who did Knights of labor accept
everyone except except liquor dealers gamblers lawyers bankers and stock brokers
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The Pullman Strike
Eugene Debs led a strike against Pullman Co. that shut down Chicago-west coast
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How did the US government make Pullman strike illegal
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
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- American Federation of Labor
- Only took skilled laborers; led by Sammuel Gompers; took over Knights of Labors
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Grange
Farmers union that pressured state legislatures to intervene to being railroaded into bankruptcy
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Wabash decision
First real step to regulate commerce
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1887 Interstate Commerce Act (ICA)
Congress can regulate Interstate Commerce with the interstate commerce committee

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