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Mark Twain came up with the term
applied to the late 19th century am. which refers to the shallow display and worship of wealth |
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| How did American technology change? |
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1879 - lightbulb
general electric company
motion pictures
by 1910 the u.s. was centered more on factories than farms |
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| the merger of competitors in the same industry |
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| one firm tries to control all the companies in that buisness |
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improved refrigerated railway cars
major railways wouldn't buy it because they feared losing the heavy investment they had already made in cattle cars |
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| how did the rise of coorporations affect workers? |
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| there was less work for poor people, the coorporations wanted skilled artisans |
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| what was the settlement house |
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| a house for homeless people that included facilities and education to help them improve their educaiton |
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| Who was Andrew Carnegie and what was his Gospel of Wealth? |
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gospel of wealth said that work and perserverance lead to wealth, saying that poverty was a character flaw
carnegie said that upper class had to set an example |
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| theory saying that the fittest and wealthiest survive, the weak and the poor perish, and the government is unable to alter this "natural" process |
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| who were the knights of labor |
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led by terrence v. powderly
it led railroad strikes in small places and it recruited blacks as well as women (gave equal pay) |
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| american federation of labor |
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collective bargaining - negotiations between management and union representatives
emphasized a few workplace issues rather than a broad social program |
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| Mexicans, chinese, japanese, polish, jewish |
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| scientists "proved" that immigrants weren't good enough |
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| 2 reasons for the increase of cities |
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| immigration there by those looking for higher paying jobs and trying to escape religious persecution |
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| city that hosted the cenntennial |
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The centennial exposition of 1876 in philidelphia
pulled out the declaration of independence and constitution
showed off telegraph and telephone |
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| what happened to firms when the cities increased |
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| the cities were overpopulated and the firms went bankrupt |
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| cigarette manufacturer; gained control of most of the tobacco industry |
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| owned a cable car company |
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| cramped quarters, unsafe, often without easy ways out, minimum wage |
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| small, cramped, poorily ventilated rooms where workers were forced to work |
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| attitudes towards female workers |
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| most thought the woman should stay at home and care for the family, and those who did work were thought of negatively |
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| founded the Hull House in 1889 |
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| headed the Knights of Labor |
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didn't like the AFL
wouldn't let the workers in because he didn't like that they supported it |
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| during the pullman strike, he ordered a boycott of any trains with pullman cars |
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| wrote a book "how the other half lives" that exposed poverty and said that the upper class cared little of those of little wealth |
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| which industry was hit by the great uprising |
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| the railroad industry was slowed |
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in may 1886, a bomb exploded in haymarket square during a meeting that was to protest police killing four unarmed workers during a strike.
the bomb killed seven police men and four strikers |
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| major goal of american federation of labor |
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| to make it easier for workers to communicate with their employers |
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| car company cut wages and strikers walked off the job but their union was dissolved and thier leader (Eugene v. debbs) was arrested |
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| how were troops used in labor disputes |
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| to stop the strikers from going back to work and to keep the workers doing what they are supposed to. |
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| attacks against jewish citizens because they thought jews had killed the tsarist government |
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| favoring the interests of natvie born inhabitants |
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| american protective association |
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in 1887
sought to limit catholic civil rights in the us to protect the jobs of protestant workingmen |
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| the mass movement of AA from the rural southt to the urban north |
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| how were stereotypes enforced |
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by the new medium of film
by belittling others with names |
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| who were the first residents of suburbs |
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| what would you find downtown |
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| entertainment and businesses |
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| what were the contributions of pulitzer and hearst |
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| they organized the newspaper into an entertaining paper that sold much better because it could catch the eye with headlines and stories for everyone |
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| an amusement park with the first ferris wheel and sold frankfurts |
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| stores grew, with items for everything and extensive inventories. they had sales and advertising campaigns that maintained customers interests |
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football at harvard, yale
golf at the country club
skating and bicyling
professional baseball |
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| germanic, romance, slavic, celtic |
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| architect of union station |
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| 10 hours a day, 6 days a week |
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