Steel | ||
Oil | ||
Flour Milling | ||
Tobacco | ||
Meat Packing | ||
Steam Ships | ||
founded National Labor Union | ||
founded AFL | ||
Knights of Labor | ||
Pullman strike labor | ||
United Mine Workers | ||
child labor laws | ||
strikebreaker or replacement worker | ||
one company controls an industry | ||
corporation formed by separate companies | ||
only the strong survive | ||
company buys out its suppliers | ||
companies making same product merge | ||
Telegraph | ||
Air brakes | ||
Transatlantic telegraph | ||
Process to vulcanized rubber | ||
Safety pin | ||
American inventor of steel process | ||
Built Brooklyn Bridge | ||
Sewing Machine | ||
Filed over 1000 patents | ||
British inventor of steel process | ||
Skyscraper Architect | ||
Reaper | ||
Merchandising pioneer | ||
"Greatest Show on Earth" | ||
Typewriter | ||
Steel Plow | ||
Developed train cars | ||
Telephone | ||
First oil well | ||
Built first skyscraper | ||
"Throw enough, some will stick" | ||
"You vote for mine, I'll vote for yours" | ||
the support for a bill comes from the lower levels of the party general public | ||
party heals wounds after nomination battle | ||
Sherman went home to visit constituents | ||
party supporter through and through | ||
Republican Party | ||
Metaphor for graft and corruption | ||
"old guard" republicans | ||
applying christian principles to social problems | ||
came before the civil war, mostly from Northern & Western Europe | ||
came after the civil war to feed labor frenzy in the US, from Eastern and Southern Europe | ||
involved, convicted, hanged, because of Haymarket Riot | ||
Irish miners went on strike in PA for the mine worker's union | ||
Union Pacific RR | ||
Central Pacific RR | ||
god Knights of Labor going | ||
Social Darwinism | ||
Financed Great Northern RR | ||
great military leader whose presidency foundered in corruption and political ineptitude | ||
bold and unprincipled financier whose plot to corner the US gold market nearly succeeded in 1869 | ||
heavyweight NY political boss whose widespread fraud landed him in jail in 1871 | ||
colorful, eccentric newspaper editor who carried the Liberal Republican and Democratic banners against Grant in 1872 | ||
Wealthy NY financier whose bank collapse in 1873 set off an economic depression | ||
Irish-born leader of the anti-Chinese movement in California | ||
Redical Populist leader whose early success turned sour, and who then became a vicious racist. | ||
Imperious NY senator and leader of the "Stalwart" faction of Republicans | ||
Charming but corrupt "Half-Breed" Republican senator and presidential nominee in 1884 | ||
Winner of the contested 1876 election who presided over the end of Reconstruction and a sharp economic downturn | ||
President whose assassination after only a few months in office spurred the passage of a civil-service law | ||
Term for the racial segregation laws imposed in the 1890's | ||
first Democratic president since the Civil War; defender of laissez-faire economics and low tariffs | ||
Eloquent young congressman from Nebraska who became the most prominent advocate of "free silver" in the early 1890's | ||
enormously wealthy banker whose secret bailout of the federal government in 1895 aroused fierce public anger |
Chapter 23 APUSH Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
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