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Economic and social system where:
1.Self-interests are pursued
2.Goods/Services/Work have monetary value
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Emerges in early 1800s |
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| People use what they make or grow, very local, money rarely changes hands |
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| Agricultural background, pre-market economy, jobs had to be completed at a certain time of year |
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| Develops in the early 1800s, paid wages for steady, productive work |
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| Common in pre-market times, very hieriachal |
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| Individual who moves up in society |
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| Belief of Victorians, repression of passions, support of virtues |
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| Belief of the Victorians that the home and family were the centers of morality and an escape from the competition of the market |
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| Victorian speaker that advocated to control sexual urges. |
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| Catherine Beecher, "Treatise on Domestic Economy" |
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| Considered the Bible of American women, gave advice on how to create a moral home. |
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| Self-made man, very competitive in the market, but practices self-control and restraint at home. Male ideal in the Victorian era |
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| Victorian ideal woman, at disposal of husband and children, creature of virtue and chastity |
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| Traditional "holiday" of the working class where people came in hungover to Monday work |
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| movement to stop alcohol consupmtion, Victorians were for it, working class against it. |
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plan of expanding Southern cotton economy south to Latin America, Mexico to maintain slavery market.
Showed emphasis on market expansion |
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| novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that fueled the North's arguement and showed the evils of slavery and bar morals |
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| George Fitzhugh, "Cannibals All" |
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| Showed the Southern criticism of North, said ordered Southern slavery was preferable to the North's selfishness where workers were abused and discarded |
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| Example of a company that grew exponentially during the Civil War (making uniforms) and showed economic growth and prosperity |
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| An ideology Republicans believed in that the ability to use your work in your own way was the basis of freedom |
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| written from the 1830s-1850s and gave a picture of a very smooth, stable society run by a caring, paternal slaveowner |
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| Brings up issues of slavery and westward expansion, bceomes battleground of guerilla warfar, detonating Civil War |
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| North destroyed economic infrastructue of the South (factories, railroads, etc.) |
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| Follows Lincoln as President, promotes his plan for Reconstruction of the South (moderate) |
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| Represented by President Ulysses S. Grant, supported the establishment of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments |
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| Believed that the South had committed treason and needed to be dealt with harshly |
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| government organization to aid ex-slaves, but wasn't very successful |
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| Elected President in 1876 in a controversial election |
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| Democrat that won the popular vote (and appeared to win electoral) in the election of 1876 but loses when a corrupt committee decides against him |
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| Hayes wins the Presidency, military presence in the South ended, Southerners put on Cabinet, Southerners regain control of government jobs in the South |
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| Began to to follow the plans of the Redeemers |
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| writing that encouraged the New South |
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| develops in the 1880s, economic intimidation |
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| basically sharecropping in the South w/ black laborers that become bound to the land |
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| legal separation in the South |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| finished in 1869, linked East/West US |
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| 100,000 rushed to claim land, settled by 1893 |
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| Popular novelist, wrote books about young men who succeded by hard work |
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| Head of Carnegie Steel, shows virtues of a Victorian gentleman and is a public hero even though he mistreated workers |
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| speech made into a book that said businessmen had an obligation to turn money back into society |
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| Opposite of self-made man, cheats and manipulates to get ahead |
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| example of a confidence man, flaunted his money and was involved with the New York Gold Conspiracy |
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| A group hoarded gold, causing prices to rise, then dumped gold back onto the market to make a fortune |
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| prices of meat were rising a lot so the Jewish burned the food |
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| workers went on strike, shooting and fighting broke out, President has to step in so mail can be delivered |
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| occured in South in late 1800s poor areas where big landowners rented land to poor farmers in exchange for a large percentage of the crop |
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| 1.5 million farmers who banded together and pooled their resources in the 1870s |
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| National Farmer's Alliance |
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| pushed a political agenda in the 1880s for farmers. ex: wanted government regulation of railroads |
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| The People's Party (Populists) |
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| 3rd party movement, culmination of farmer's response to their situation, attempted to unite all farmers of all races, very successful at the local level |
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| spokesmam for the Populist party |
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| wage cuts in railroad industry caused strikes, violence broke out in 1877 |
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| Chicago 1886, homemade bombs killed many during a riot, 8 radicals were brought to trial on flimsy evidence, all were convicted and 4 were executed, split the country |
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| steel mill of Carnegie, wages wer cut so strike was organized, gun battle breaks out between strikers and Pinkerton Detective Agency |
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| People marched on foot to Washington D.C. and set up tents to protest high enemployment rates, government destroyed the tent city, after depression of 1893 |
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| reform union, wanted 8hr. workday, abolition of child labor, equal pay regardless of gender |
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| leader of American Socialist Party, advocates worker control of basic industry |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| Founded in 1880s, wanted concrete benefits, higher wages, lower hours, better conditions, used threat of a national strike |
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| leader of the American Federation of Labor |
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| belief spread by Victorian "scientists" that some ethnic groups were biologically inferior to northern Europeans |
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| Encouraged immigraton quotas to limit the amount of Southern/Eastern Europeans |
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| Belief that the Northern European race was dying out b/c birth rate was falling |
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| President, example of a Victorian Gentleman |
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| Shift from small businesses to large coporations around 1900 |
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| CEO of US Steel, a very modern company supported by stockholders |
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| Created by the railroad to increase their effiency, later approved by the government |
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| British writer that warned of the dangers of overwork, hero of businessmen |
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| dominant Victorian religion in the late 1800s, a more social and positive religion, less hell speech |
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| "disease" that affected many during the late 1800s, basically a sense of hopelessness and paralysis of will that led to insomnia and fear of responsiblity |
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