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| American Federation of Labor |
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| Was a Union that was formed in 1886 that organized skilled workers in specialty lines and emphasized a few workplace issues rather than broad social programs. |
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| The battle headed by Colenel Custer where he was defeated by the Sioux and Cheyennes, headed by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in Montana, 1876. |
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| Where representatives of a Union negotiate on behalf of all of its members. |
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| A law made in 1887 that took away tribal ownership of land and granted it to individual ownership by either the Indians or the white settlers. |
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| The idea that the gov't should expand the money in the country by purchasing and coining all the silver offered to it. |
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| The term applied to the late nineteenth century that refers to the shallow display and worship of wealth |
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| Required that potential voters demonstrate that their grandfathers had been eligible to vote. Was used in the South as a way to keep the blacks from voting, since most of their grandfathers had been slaves. |
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| State laws enacted in the Midwest that regulated rates for railroads, grain elevator operators, and other MIDDLEMEN. |
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| The mass movement of blacks from the rural south to the urban North, spurred especially by an influx of job opportunities during World War I and the 1920's. |
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| A law passed by Congress in May 1862 that granted 160 acres of land to anyone in exchange for the agreement that they would improve the land and build a house on it within 5 years of the grant. |
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| The merging of competitors in the same industry |
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| Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) |
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| The first agency formed that regulated railroad practices (1887) |
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| The law that epxanded federal power over business by prhibiting pooling qand discriminatory rates by railroads and established the ICC (1887) |
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| Segregation laws that were enacted and became widespread in the South in the 1890's. They were named for a minstrel show character portrayed satirically by white actors in blackface. |
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| A labor union formed in 1869 that consisted of both skilled and unskilled workers regardless of race or gender. It peaked in the 1880's but was disbanded after violent strikes in response to their advocacy of a strict 8 hour work day. |
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| The philosophy that government should not interfere with the economy, especially though regulation. |
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| The term used to describe Elitist and conservative reformsers who favored sound money and limited gov't and opposed tarrifs and the spoils system. |
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| An interracial organization formed by Dr. Bois in 1910 that was dedicated to the retoration of blacks political and social rights. |
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| Pendleton Civil Service Act |
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| A law formed in 1883 to reform the Spoils System. Prohibited gov't workers from making political contributions and creating the Civil Service Commission to oversee that new office workers are appointed based on merit, rather than politics. |
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| The decision by the Supreme Court that stated that Louisiana's railroad segregation laws didn't conflict with the Constitution as long as they provided equal accomodations. |
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| The practice of choosing people for office based on who had supported the electee the best, rather than basing it on their actual merit. |
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| A major third party of the 1890's that was formed on the basis of the Southern Farmers' Alliance and other reform organizations that maunted electoral challenges against the democrats in the South and the Republicans in the West. |
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| A venerable third party that is still in existence that wants to abolish alcohol but has also introduced many important ideas in the American politics. |
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| A system of racial control that separated the races, initialls by custom but increasingly by law during and after reconstruction. |
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| The first federal anti-trust measure that wanted to promote economic business combinations in restraint of trade or commerce. |
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| The use of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to explain that within society, the fittest and wealthiest survive while the weakest and poorest perish, and that the gov't is unable to change this natural process. |
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| A misleading slogan that referred to the conservative policy of restricting the monery supply and adhering to the gold standard |
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| Small, porly ventilated shops or appartments crammed with workers, often family members, who pieced together gsarments. |
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| A national organization or farm owners that was formed after the Civil War. Also known as the The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandy |
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| The consolidation of the numerous production functions |
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| Women's Christian Temperance Union |
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| National organization formed after the Civil War dedicated to prohibiting the sale and distribution of alcohol |
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