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| IDENTIFY THE THEME OF MARK TWAIN AND CHARLES WARNER'S THE GILDED AGE |
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| satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. |
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NAME THE MAN WHO PIONEERED THE NATIONS
FIRST BIG BUSINESS |
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| JAY GOULD AND THE RAILROADS |
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| DISCUSS HOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AIDED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THER RAILROADS |
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| The Republican Party, firmly entrenched in Washington in the wake of the Civil War, worked closely with business interests, subsidizing the transcontinental railroad system with land grants of a staggering 100 million acres of public land and $64 million in tax incentives and direct aid. |
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| SHOW HOW THE STOCK MARKET PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN THE GROWTH OF INDUSTRY |
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| The Republican Party, firmly entrenched in Washington in the wake of the Civil War, worked closely with business interests, subsidizing the transcontinental railroad system with land grants of a staggering 100 million acres of public land and $64 million in tax incentives and direct aid. |
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| NAME THE MAN WHO CAME TO DOMINATE THE STEEL INDUSTRY AND DESCRIBE HOW HE DID IT |
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| Andrew Carnegie USING VERTICAL INTEGRATION The growth of the steel industry proceeded directly from railroad building. |
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| NAME THE MAN WHO CAME TO DOMINATE THE OIL INDUSTRY AND DESCRIBE HOW HE DID IT |
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| John D. Rockefeller USING HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION HE pioneered a new form of corporate structure—the trust |
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| DISCUSS THE IMPACT OF MASS PRODUCTION ON AMERICANS IN THE GILDED AGE |
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| Mass production slashed prices and made available a wide array of new products |
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| IDENTIFY THE INVENTIONS THAT MOST REVOLUTIONIZED AMERICAN LIVES IN TH GILDED AGE |
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| TELEPHONE (Alexander Graham Bell), ELECTRICITY (tHOMAS EDISON) |
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| DEFINE FINANCE CAPITALISM AND NAME AMERICA'S PREEMINENT FINANCE CAPITALIST |
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| investment sponsored by banks and bankers.John Pierpont Morgan |
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| EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OLIGOPOLY AND MONOPOLY |
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OLIGOPOLY - competitive system IN WHICH several companies control production.
MONOPOLY - NO COMPETION, ONE COMPANY CONTROLS THE PRODUCTION |
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| DEFINE SOCIAL DARWINISM AND DISCUSS HOW IT WAS USED TO GLORIFY GREAT WEALTH AND CURB SOCIAL REFORM |
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A social theory that argued that all progress in human society came as the result of competition and natural selection.
HOW: it justified economic inequality. |
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| DISCUSS HOW THE US SUPREME COURT SUPPORTED THE RISE OF CORPORATE CAPITALISM |
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| the Court increasingly reinterpreted the Constitution to protect business from taxation, regulation, labor organization, and antitrust legislation BY CONSIDERING corporations AS “persons.” (14TH AMMEND. ON SANTA Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad) |
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| SHOW HOW RELIGION AND ETHNICITY PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT TOLE IN THE GILDED AGE POLITICS |
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| Protestants from the old-line denominations, particularly Presbyterians and Methodists, flocked to the Republican Party, which championed a series of moral reforms, including local laws requiring businesses to close in observance of the Sabbath. In the burgeoning cities, the Democratic Party courted immigrants and working-class Catholic and Jewish voters charging, rightly, that Republican moral crusades often masked attacks on immigrant culture. |
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| LIST THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW SOUTH |
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IT remained agricultural
cheap labor and abundant natural resources
TOBBACO DOMINATION
iron and steel industry |
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| DISCUSS IDA WELL'S CAMPAIGN AGAIST RACISM IN THE NEW SOUTH |
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| She began to collect data on lynching and discovered that in the decade between 1882 and 1892, lynching rose in the South by an overwhelming 200 percent, with more than 241 people killed |
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| EXPLAIN HOW CIVIL SERVICE REFORM HELPED BREAK THE POWER OF THE PARTY BOSSES IN THE GILDED AGE |
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| Half of the postal jobs and most of the customhouse jobs, the largest share of the spoilsmen's bounty, passed to the control of the Civil Service Commission. The new law also prohibited federal jobholders from contributing to political campaigns, thus drying up the major source of the party bosses' revenue. |
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| IDENTIFY THE FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE ATTEMPTS TO CURB THE POWER OF BIG BUSINESS ON BEHALF OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST |
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* the Supreme Court dealt the antitrust law a crippling blow in United States v. E. C. Knight Company. In its decision, the Court ruled that “manufacture” did not constitute “trade.”
* Congress to pass the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890. The act outlawed pools and trusts, ruling that businesses could no longer enter into agreements to restrict competition. |
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