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Civil War to the 1920s
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Undergraduate 1
10/05/2007

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Market Revolution
Definition
Economic and social system where:
1.Self-interests are pursued
2.Goods/Services/Work have monetary value
3.Competing individuals
Emerges in early 1800s
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Household Economy
Definition
People use what they make or grow, very local, money rarely changes hands
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Task Oriented Work
Definition
Agricultural background, pre-market economy, jobs had to be completed at a certain time of year
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Time Oriented Work
Definition
Develops in the early 1800s, paid wages for steady, productive work
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Paternalism
Definition
Common in pre-market times, very hieriachal
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Self-Made Man
Definition
Individual who moves up in society
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Self Control
Definition
Belief of Victorians, repression of passions, support of virtues
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Domesticity
Definition
Belief of the Victorians that the home and family were the centers of morality and an escape from the competition of the market
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Sylvester Graham
Definition
Victorian speaker that advocated to control sexual urges.
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Catherine Beecher, "Treatise on Domestic Economy"
Definition
Considered the Bible of American women, gave advice on how to create a moral home.
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Christian Gentlemen
Definition
Self-made man, very competitive in the market, but practices self-control and restraint at home. Male ideal in the Victorian era
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True Woman
Definition
Victorian ideal woman, at disposal of husband and children, creature of virtue and chastity
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St. Monday
Definition
Traditional "holiday" of the working class where people came in hungover to Monday work
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Temperance
Definition
movement to stop alcohol consupmtion, Victorians were for it, working class against it.
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Ostend Manifesto
Definition
plan of expanding Southern cotton economy south to Latin America, Mexico to maintain slavery market.

Showed emphasis on market expansion
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Definition
novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that fueled the North's arguement and showed the evils of slavery and bar morals
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George Fitzhugh, "Cannibals All"
Definition
Showed the Southern criticism of North, said ordered Southern slavery was preferable to the North's selfishness where workers were abused and discarded
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Singer Sewing Machine
Definition
Example of a company that grew exponentially during the Civil War (making uniforms) and showed economic growth and prosperity
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Free Labor
Definition
An ideology Republicans believed in that the ability to use your work in your own way was the basis of freedom
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Plantation Novels
Definition
written from the 1830s-1850s and gave a picture of a very smooth, stable society run by a caring, paternal slaveowner
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Bleeding Kansas
Definition
Brings up issues of slavery and westward expansion, bceomes battleground of guerilla warfar, detonating Civil War
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Total War
Definition
North destroyed economic infrastructue of the South (factories, railroads, etc.)
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Andrew Johnson
Definition
Follows Lincoln as President, promotes his plan for Reconstruction of the South (moderate)
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Radical Republicans
Definition
Represented by President Ulysses S. Grant, supported the establishment of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
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Thaddeus Stevens
Definition
Believed that the South had committed treason and needed to be dealt with harshly
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Freedman's Bureau
Definition
government organization to aid ex-slaves, but wasn't very successful
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Definition
Elected President in 1876 in a controversial election
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Samuel Tilden
Definition
Democrat that won the popular vote (and appeared to win electoral) in the election of 1876 but loses when a corrupt committee decides against him
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
Hayes wins the Presidency, military presence in the South ended, Southerners put on Cabinet, Southerners regain control of government jobs in the South
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The New South
Definition
Began to to follow the plans of the Redeemers
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Henry Grady
Definition
writing that encouraged the New South
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
develops in the 1880s, economic intimidation
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Crop Lien System
Definition
basically sharecropping in the South w/ black laborers that become bound to the land
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Jim Crow Laws
Definition
legal separation in the South
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Transcontinental Railroad
Definition
finished in 1869, linked East/West US
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Oklahoma Land Rush
Definition
100,000 rushed to claim land, settled by 1893
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Horatio Alger
Definition
Popular novelist, wrote books about young men who succeded by hard work
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Andrew Carnegie
Definition
Head of Carnegie Steel, shows virtues of a Victorian gentleman and is a public hero even though he mistreated workers
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Gospel of Wealth
Definition
speech made into a book that said businessmen had an obligation to turn money back into society
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Confidence Man
Definition
Opposite of self-made man, cheats and manipulates to get ahead
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Jay Gould
Definition
example of a confidence man, flaunted his money and was involved with the New York Gold Conspiracy
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New York Gold Conspiracy
Definition
A group hoarded gold, causing prices to rise, then dumped gold back onto the market to make a fortune
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Kosher Food Riot
Definition
prices of meat were rising a lot so the Jewish burned the food
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Pullmen Strike
Definition
workers went on strike, shooting and fighting broke out, President has to step in so mail can be delivered
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Sharecropping
Definition
occured in South in late 1800s poor areas where big landowners rented land to poor farmers in exchange for a large percentage of the crop
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The Grange
Definition
1.5 million farmers who banded together and pooled their resources in the 1870s
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National Farmer's Alliance
Definition
pushed a political agenda in the 1880s for farmers. ex: wanted government regulation of railroads
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The People's Party (Populists)
Definition
3rd party movement, culmination of farmer's response to their situation, attempted to unite all farmers of all races, very successful at the local level
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Tom Watson
Definition
spokesmam for the Populist party
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National Railroad Strike
Definition
wage cuts in railroad industry caused strikes, violence broke out in 1877
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Haymarket Riot
Definition
Chicago 1886, homemade bombs killed many during a riot, 8 radicals were brought to trial on flimsy evidence, all were convicted and 4 were executed, split the country
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Homestead Strike
Definition
steel mill of Carnegie, wages wer cut so strike was organized, gun battle breaks out between strikers and Pinkerton Detective Agency
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Coxey's Army
Definition
People marched on foot to Washington D.C. and set up tents to protest high enemployment rates, government destroyed the tent city, after depression of 1893
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Knights of Labor
Definition
reform union, wanted 8hr. workday, abolition of child labor, equal pay regardless of gender
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Eugene V. Debs
Definition
leader of American Socialist Party, advocates worker control of basic industry
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American Federation of Labor
Definition
Founded in 1880s, wanted concrete benefits, higher wages, lower hours, better conditions, used threat of a national strike
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Samuel Gompers
Definition
leader of the American Federation of Labor
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Scientific Racism
Definition
belief spread by Victorian "scientists" that some ethnic groups were biologically inferior to northern Europeans
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Definition
Encouraged immigraton quotas to limit the amount of Southern/Eastern Europeans
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Race Suicide
Definition
Belief that the Northern European race was dying out b/c birth rate was falling
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Theodore Roosevelt
Definition
President, example of a Victorian Gentleman
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Monopoly Capitalism
Definition
Shift from small businesses to large coporations around 1900
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Charles Schwab
Definition
CEO of US Steel, a very modern company supported by stockholders
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Standard Time
Definition
Created by the railroad to increase their effiency, later approved by the government
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Herbert Spencer
Definition
British writer that warned of the dangers of overwork, hero of businessmen
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Liberal Protestantism
Definition
dominant Victorian religion in the late 1800s, a more social and positive religion, less hell speech
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Neurasthenia
Definition
"disease" that affected many during the late 1800s, basically a sense of hopelessness and paralysis of will that led to insomnia and fear of responsiblity
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