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| controlling every aspect of manufacturing (provide supplies, produce, and distribute) |
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| Andrew Carnegie's Steel Business |
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| James B. Duke's Tobacco Business |
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| merging competitors into 1 systyem (cost cutting/efficincy) |
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| Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust |
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| Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890 |
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| Southern Industrialization "The New South" |
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| Creed to boost industry by abandoning traditional agriculture to promote industrialization |
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| "New South" new industry? |
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| Lumber, turpentine, textiles, steel and cigarettes |
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| The Homestead Act of 1862 |
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| Free 60 acres/ family - Improve it in 5 years and it's yours |
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| Cattle Ranching Boom and Bust |
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| = Cattle Ranches being reorganized into smaller family owned ranches |
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| open ranges, European investors, free grass |
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| Revolutionary barbed wire fencing enclosed farm land, market crash 1880 |
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| Key Factors of Industrialization |
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| 1. Markets 2.Natural Resources 3.Transportation 4.Capital 5. Technology 6.Government Attitude 7.Entrepenuers |
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| Need for cheap, long distance transportation for heavy loads |
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| jobs/ culture/ economy/ new technology/ stimulated other industies |
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| 1st Transcontinental Railroad |
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a.) Union Pacific west from Omaha
b.) Central Pacific east from SanFrancisco
(met @ Promontory Point, Utah May 10th 1869) |
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| To deprive of rights (voting) - One party rule in south used Multiple Box Law/ Poll Tax/ Literacy Test/ Understanding Clause/ Grandfather Clause |
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| "Jim Crow" segregation laws |
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| Official segregated blacks and whites for 1st time after reconstruction |
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| President and Founder of Tuskegee Institute |
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| Booker T.'s speech encouraging blacks to shut up about rights and make somthing of themselves first |
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| founder of the NAACP - said that Booker T. was accomadting racism and started "talented tenth" instead |
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| Anti-immigrant/ Anti-catholic |
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| American Protection Association |
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| Nativists fouded in Iowa 1887 |
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| Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 |
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| ended immigration by Chinese laborers, ended free immigration, set precedent for restriction or exclusion based on race |
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| British, Netherlands, Germany, Scandanavia |
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| Russia, Asia, Mexico, Italy, Hungary, Turkey, Greece, Romania |
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| Became head of Knights and changed Klan to Union |
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| Samuel Gompers & American Federation of Labor |
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| to protect income and status of skilled workers, focus on wage hours and conditions, used strikes |
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| National Labor Union & KNights Labor Union |
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| moral suasion and cooperation rather than confrontation with employer |
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| The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 |
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| Depression and banks collapsing turned strikes against wage cuts violent |
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| Strike against McCormick International Harvester Co. bomb went off, 4 stikers killed, 8 anarchists convicted, 4 hung |
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| Pullman car workers strike at wage cuts but no rent reductions (company town near Chicago) |
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| Let "people" do "as they please" -- no gov. regulation in economic affairs |
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| farmers, democrats, and rural republicans |
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| buisnessmen, industrialists, and most republicans |
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| backed by (and redeemable) by gold |
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| amound of goods and services goes way up and wages/earnings/prices go way down |
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| a board of trustees runs a trust controlling a number of different companies |
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| hold crops in bins while prices are low and take up to 80% loan out on crop worth |
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| used silver with gold's worth for currency(didn't work out) |
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| The populist party (1892-1912) |
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| free silver, income tax, postal savings (no bank), regulation of railroads and direct election of senators (gov. does everything) |
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| Reading railroad bankrupt - stock market collapsed - entered worst depression country had ever had |
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| marched on washington for gov. to employ the unemployed in public works and to print paper money - Coxey jailed |
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Republicans -- McKinley/Gold & high
Democrats -- Bryan/Silver & low
Populists -- Bryan/Silver & low |
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| Democrat and Populist nominee, nominated for "cross of gold" speech - lost |
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| Democrat and Populist nominee, nominated for "cross of gold" speech - lost |
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| Venezuala/British boundry dispute,GB criticized so they backed off. U.S. established dominance in the western hemisphere |
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| for taking new colonies, for economic & cultural opportunities |
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| against taking new colonies, fear of those colonies becoming non-white citizens - and against American values |
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| ship went into Havana harbor in Cuba to back up U.S. demand that Spain leave - ship blows killing 226, Feb. 15 1898 Started spanish-american war (even though spain didn't blow int) |
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| Gave Cuba independence, but Cuba must stay independent, have to large debt to another country, and U.S. got guantanamo bay |
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| Secretary of State John Hay and the Open Door Note (1899) |
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| Kept trade in a weak China open and fair among imperialist countries |
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| nationalist Chinese sought to oust forigners & imperialists from China - boxers extinguished by powers who then backed out |
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| Panama Canal Treaty (1903) |
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| French get kicked out of Columbia, but Columbia wouldn't give canal to U.S. so U.S. backs Panama in succeeding from Columbia - Treaty then gave Panama independece and U.S. got canal |
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| European nations were paid their debts and then had to stay out of the western hemisphere |
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| buys up debts western countries owed to Europe - substitute dollars for bullets |
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| Wilson's Missionary Diplomacy |
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| The U.S. has to set an example for other countries to behave - interventions in Mexico, Dominican Republic and Haiti |
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