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Chapter 23 APUSH Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age

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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

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