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He stayed involved because he wanted to go against planter elite, class motivated
congress impeached him
racist comments |
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| An attempt to reform the Indians: Southern reconstruction governments |
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Allotment: 160 land for each indian family
60 million lost to settlers
27 million lost later, debts?
assimilate indians
Available citizenship |
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a fraternal organization for American farmers that encourages farm families to band together for their common economic and political well-being.
banded to together
Fell apart because farmers separated to make own profits |
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Free coinage of silver
Restrictions of Immigration
8 hour day |
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Sioux Indians turned to ghost dances that came from Wovoka, would bring back native American lands and would cause the whites to disappear and buffalo return
Army attacked them, Indians escaped but they caught up with them and massacre |
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Began as a secret fraternal organization until Terence V. Powderly, included everyone but excluded non-producers.
Goals: 8 hour day, end child labor, and utopian reform
Too loose of structure. Problems like hay market caused destruction |
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American Federation of Labor
Loose alliance of national craft unions, avoided politics.
specific practical objectives: higher wages, shorter hours and better conditions
ignored/opposed women workers and made it difficult for blacks |
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| who were skilled workers? |
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Taylorism
Scientific Time Management
Separated the workers from satisfying aspects of the job |
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too many
no monopolies
standardizations (railroads and time zones) |
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| Principle of limited liability |
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| Limits on risk, can’t take all your money |
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| Own every aspect of your business |
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| Bessemer plants demanded extensive capital investment, abundant raw materials and sophisticated production techniques |
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Laiz-faire
Subsidies
Railroads
Maintain High Tariffs |
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Presidents didn’t accomplish much, “custodial” presidents
Jobs really just was patronage,
Some attempts at reform after the assassination of Garfield
No taxes, Tariffs, taxes on alcohol and tobacco, and etc.
Surplus on money
Not much to do
Democrats had House and Republicans had Congress
High voter turn out
Era of low expectations |
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Had the house during gilded age
State rights over federal rights
Outside south: Party of the working class, urban party, Catholics and Jews, non protestant, new comers
South: White supremacy,
No tariffs low tariffs
Saw US as having conflicting interests |
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Had the congress during gilded age
More enthusiastic for federal government, government funding (railroad)
Usually Northern/western protestants
African Americans, some in the south, but disenfranchised
Kept alive the glory of the civil war
Waving the bloody shirt: Remember who the good and bad guys are
City and the factories, accepting of big changes of urbanization and industrialization
High Tariffs: to protect American industry
Party of ideas and change |
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1883 Pendleton Act
Reform the patronage system
Spoil system
Patronage increased party loyalty and voting
Jobs really just was patronage, loyal party supporters given places |
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| reform teh patronage system |
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| Doctrine of separate spheres |
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| Where men are seen as having the qualities for politics and women are not, they are moral. |
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| Andrew Carnegie and unions were fighting |
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Cutting the wages of the cart builders
Lease housing to their workers, and keep raising the rent |
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The American railway union joined Pullman strike because of Eugene by refusing to handle trains that carried Pullman sleeping cars
Refused to call off the Pullman strike, imprisoned for violating a court injunction
Becomes a socialist |
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creater: abner doubleday;
nostalgia- laid back;
family friendly;
harry wright 1869 first competetive teams |
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corrupt;
serious injuries and death;
colleges start dropping football;
1909 NCAA to monitor |
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banning alchol
asked saloons to close;
frances willard- president;
less threatening way to get vote |
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We need a navy to have better foreign relations
Coaling stations, take control of places to make them neutral
Need a canal
Young eager politicians push congress to fund the new navy |
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| economic reasons for empire |
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too productive, can't absorb it all;
foreign markets=lots of exporting;
play catch up with europe; |
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| refers to the period of political and administrative unrest that prevailed in Cuba during the period between the end of the 10 year war (1868-1878) and the final Independence of Cuba from Spanish |
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| custodial presidents; industrialization; labor unret; corruption; growing problems with urbanization; flux in immigration; depression |
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| attitudes of progressives |
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| acceptance of corporate capitalism; curb abuses of industry; faith in progress; belief in interventionism; evangelicals want to help people; social gospel/control; applying sciene to social problems; muckraking; federal government can solve problems |
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| conservative progressism; bully pulpit; achievements: inspired public opinion and public reform; trustbuster; |
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| Types of progressive reform |
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massive areas to the national forests;
FDA;
limited women's working hours;
increase in education;
child labor laws;
temperance; |
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| 1903 Women’s trade union league- better conditions; national american women's suffrage association, president carrie chapman catt; plan was to start local; national women's party- Alice Paul, extreme, femnist; full freedom for women; stop their effots to put into war |
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| civil rights for all americans |
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| right to vote for black men |
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Learning trades would help, and hold back on social change
Seen as too accommodating of whites
Famous speech: 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech
But we need to come together
We can be separate |
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Opposite of Washington
Says demand equality and take action
Creates NAACP |
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Uprising of unions;
Working conditions;
Moved to the city;
Women and children came into the workforce;
Immigration; |
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Rise of industrialization/urbanization
essay |
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Creation of assembly line;
Mass production;
Production of steel- build cities;
Living conditions;
Railroads;
Standardization;
Rise of white collar; |
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| Rise of consumerism/amusement |
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Standardization of products;
Technology allows for growth in sports;
Parks;
Need the items;
Buying cars, thing were more afforadable;
Movies;
Department stores; geared towards woman;
New products: Mechanized cash registers, Brand names start to matter, Canned food is new, Household ice boxes, radiators, typewriters: women now in offices, skyscrapers, photography, marketing, bicycles, change in a view in Christmas: commercialization, |
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