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Gilded Age Review

The document discusses many topics from the late 19th century including nativism against immigrants, poor living conditions for workers, discriminatory laws against African Americans, the rise of large corporations and monopolies, political corruption, and reform efforts including labor unions and populism.

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Gilded Age Review

The document discusses many topics from the late 19th century including nativism against immigrants, poor living conditions for workers, discriminatory laws against African Americans, the rise of large corporations and monopolies, political corruption, and reform efforts including labor unions and populism.

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Unfair Treatment A New Beginning Corrupt Policies

Nativism - Americans were Laissez-Faire - The 1st time Vertical Integration - Buys
against immigrants moving government told to stay out of out all the companies in the
into the States, making their economy and companies buyer company’s supply
lives harder Corporation - Company with chain
Tenements - Poor housings owners of it as stockholders, Horizontal Integration -
for workers in the cities FIRST TIME OUTSIDERS Buying out all competitors
Urbanization - Long work COULD OWN A PART OF created monopolies
hours & little pay for A COMPANY Political Machine -
immigrants Stock Holder - Partial Autocratic group; Maintained
Chinese Exclusion Act - owners of company; normal political and administrative
Limited how much Chinese people couldn’t own a part of control of an area
could immigrate to the States a company by buying their “Boss” Tweed - dishonest
Populism - Commons cannot stocks before NY senate plundered
do what elites can do Social Gospel – improve $30-$200 Million from the
Grandfather Clause - Tried society through charity and city; head of Tammany Hall
to prevent African Americans justice Tammany Hall - Democratic
from voting Pendleton Act – to become a political machine of NY
Jim Crow Laws - Racially political candidate had to take Honest Graft - Exercising
segregated & discriminated an exam power for personal gain
against African Americans Social Darwinism / Herbert (Plunkitt)
Spencer - natural selection on Monopoly - One
people = people need to start person/company gainst
evolving and self-improve to control of an industry with no
survive competitors
Graduated Income Tax - High Tariffs - Raised prices
Tax the rich, save the poor on imported goods necessary
W.E.B. DuBois - African for many people
Americans need to focus on Closed Shops – hired only
college education to succeed union workers
Poll Tax - everyone had to
pay this tax
Risk-Takers Dramatic Change “Help is on the Way”
“Streetcar Suburb” – living Alexander Graham Bell - AFL – major labor union
in a rural area and working in his invention of the telephone during the time… did not
the city led to a change in allow women or
Pacific Railroad Act - Gov. communication. African-Americans
offered incentives to investors Thomas Edison - Invented Jane Adams / Settlement
of transcontinental railroad incandescent light bulb, the Houses – helped low-income
Land Grants - Allowed phonograph, the motion families with health care and
people to apply for land in the picture camera, improved the education
West on which they can settle telegraph & telephone Interstate Commerce Act –
and cultivate it Transcontinental Railroad - goal was to regulate trade
Entrepreneurs - People risk Faster and more efficient Unions - supported a
starting their own business in transportation across the diversity workers
hopes of making more $ continent Philanthropy - People help
Booker T. Washington - Get Americanization – adapt to others for the greater good
good at a trait to go straight American culture and forget The Grange - assist farmers
into workforce for a chance to your own in numerous ways
buy land earlier in life Stalwarts – name given to Farmers’ Alliance - Tried to
political bosses improve economic conditions
Marxism - called for workers for farmers
revolt to overturn capitalism Inflation - Inflated farmer’s
for communism crop prices
William Jennings Bryan -
Helped farmers via Silver
standard, taxing the rich, and
allowing the direct election of
Senators

Industrialization

Immigration

Gilded Age

Politics and Reform

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