Unit 4: Modernizing with Democratic Capitalism from 1865-1914 Flashcards
(41 cards)
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Farmers’ Alliance
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The Grange
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Populism
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Panic of 1893
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Bimetallism
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Gold standard
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William McKinley
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William Jennings Bryan and the ‘Cross of Gold’
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John D. Rockefeller
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J.P. Morgan
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Andrew Carnegie
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Denis Kearney
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Knights of Labor
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American Federation of Labor
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Progressivism
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Referendum, recall and initiative
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Socialism
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Interstate Commerce Act
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American Protective Association
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Henry George
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Edward Bellamy
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Gospel of Wealth
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Muckrakers
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Jane Addams
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Upton Sinclair
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John Muir
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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Meat Inspection Act
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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To what degree did farmers unify into local and regional organizations to confront the new realities of mechanized agriculture and dependence on the evolving railroad system?
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As migrant populations increased in number and the American bison population was decimated, how did competition for land and resources in the West among white settlers, American Indians, and Mexican Americans lead to an increase in violent conflict?
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To what degree did Americans’ living standards improve and inequality grow during the Industrial Revolution?
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How did many business leaders seek increased profits by consolidating corporations into large trusts and holding companies?
36
Describe the battle between labor and management over wages and working conditions.
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How did political machines, settlement houses, and women’s help groups offer opportunities for the unfortunate in the tough urban environment?
38
Describe the cultural and intellectual arguments used to justify the success of those at the top of the socioeconomic structure as both appropriate and inevitable.
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How did corruption in government, especially as it related to big business, energize the public to demand an increase in popular control and reform of local, state, and national governments, ranging from minor changes to major overhauls of the capitalist system?
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How did journalists and Progressive reformers — largely urban and middle class, and often female — work to reform existing social and political institutions at the local, state, and federal levels by creating new organizations aimed at addressing social problems associated with an industrial society, in the late 1890s and the early years of the 20th century?
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How did progressives promote federal legislation to regulate economic and environmental abuses, and also seek to expand democracy?
