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| A time period when society looked good on the outside, but also experienced many problems. |
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Second Industrial Revolution
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| a time after the Civil War of high industrial growth, large factories, new technology, and big business. |
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| Inventor/Innovator who invented/innovated the light bulb and electricity distribution impact. Light bulbs let factories boost production with a night shift; electrically powered big factory machines. |
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John D. Rockefeller
#MONOPLY |
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| Captain of the Oil industry becoming a vial source of energy to fuel industrialization. Became the richest man in American History, however, his monopolistic business practices hurt competition and small businesses |
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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| Captain of the railroad industry. The growth of railroads was vital to increased settlement and trade. The power of railroads also led to business and government corruption. |
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| Often compared with Americans for unskilled factory jobs and were seen as “stealing jobs”. |
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| The herding and moving of cattle over long distances. |
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Chineses Banned ACt
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| Banned chinese immigration in 1882. |
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Political Machines
#PARTYPoltical |
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| City political organizations designed to gain and keep power. |
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Thomas Nast
#ALLTEAALLSHADE |
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| Drew political cartoons criticizing Tammany Hall. |
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| A home made from sod or grass. |
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Credit Mobilier Scandal
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| Congressmen were bribed to let a railroad construction company to overcharge taxpayer money. Often, government officials favored wealthy business owners over “common” people. |
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| Required many jobs to be given based on a “civil service” exam and qualification, NOT the spoils system. |
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Yellow-dog contract
#MYDAWWG |
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| Workers had to promise not to join a union of hired. |
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| Strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage. |
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Great Railroad Strike of 1877
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| Public perception of unions became more negative, and would continue to during the Gilded Age. State and federal governments sided with employers, not unions, and would continue to during the Gilded Age. |
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| Name given to business men who took advantage of government policies, but hurt the country. |
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| Established sale of cheap land in the West- 160 acres for $10. |
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| Before each hunt Plain Indians performed a buffalo dance. On foot it took a whole tribe to catch a buffalo, they are very dangerous. The buffalo heart was left on the plains as an offering. Men and women would record their lives on buffalo hides using pictograpghs. |
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Morrill Land Grant Act
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| Helped create agricultural and technical colleges to teach skills needed in the west. |
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Pacific Railway Act
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| Authorized building a transcontinental railroad. |
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Reservation system
#PRTVIATELAND |
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| Small areas of land Native Americans were forced to move to, usually with few natural resources. Rules and resources were controlled often by government officials. Reservations segregated Native Americans from settlers and encouraged them to adopt american culture. |
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| A major Sioux leader led people off reservations to hunt buffalo. |
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| A major Ne Pierce leader who resisted being placed on a reservation in Idaho. |
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Battle of Little Bighorn
#NativeVICROY |
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| Located in Montana. The battle was the most significant victory for Native Americans over the United States military. The US government increased military efforts to crush resistance. |
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This law offered individual Native Americans 160 acre homesteads for farming.
Intended to break up tribes and encourage Native Americans to assimilate. Failed because Native Americans refused to abandon tribes. |
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| This essay evaluated the role of the western frontier on the United States. |
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Wounded Knee Massacre
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"Ghost dance: movement Native Americans performed this ritual, hoping it would cause whites to leave and buffalo to return. Though nonviolent, federal authorities banned it on reservations
Significance. The wounded knee massacre marked the last significant resistance of Native Americans during the plains Indians wars. |
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A Century of Dishonor
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| book that criticized the history of broken treaties with and violence against Native Americans. |
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| Wrote novels glorifying getting rich through honesty, morality, and hard work. |
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Andrew Carnegie
#ManOfSteel |
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| Captain of the steel industry. Vital to the construction of railroad factories, city buildings, etc. |
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| Captain of the banking industry. Vital to financing the growth of many businesses. |
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| Applied “survival of the fittest” principles to justify the gap between rich and poor as natural. |
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