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History 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Guilded age | A period of ecanomic change |
| Major loyalty to what two parties | Democrats and republicans |
| What did democrats split on the idea of | Slavery |
| Type of government during this time | Lasse faire |
| Guilded age introduces | Monopolies, industrialization, child labor, |
| Gov can | Deliver mail, collect taxes maintain military |
| Factory workers stature | No life insurance no work hours regulated, no minimum wage, no safety, no fire codes |
| Monopolies bring about | The horrible conditions of workers and child labor |
| Labor movement | Workers created unions as to get protection and adiment wage |
| Corrupt presidency of conkling | Gave jobs to friends and with acts later helping reform this |
| Civil service test | A need to pass a test for a gov official job |
| Halfbreeds | Wanting reform (James g Blaine) |
| Stalwarts | (Roscoe Conkling) not wanting change or reform |
| Garfield presidency | Shot in the torso later died because of doctors trying to get it out and unsantization, who won in a split vote |
| Chester Arthur | Wants sacrifice in presidency beloved to be involved in Garfield’s assasination |
| Civil service act | Anyone could apply/compete for a gov job no matter race and other stuff |
| Mugwumps | Reformers who don’t want to elect Arthur broke off from their republican party |
| Social darwinists | The mindset of “Weak will die strong will survive” it is weak to to work in factories and strong to monopolists mindset by the “elite” or rich |
| First Democrate To go into office after 30yrs of only republicans | Clevlend who was supported by mugwurmps |
| Clevlend | Served two non consecutive terms, he allegedly cheated and assaulted his wife while admitting her into an asylum |
| 1884 election | Burchard tried rallying compainion support ends up costing him the election for his belief “rum, Romanism, rebellion” labels cathlism as bad loosing by 1000 electoral votes |
| Clevlend first term as “veto governor” | Opposed bills to assist both rich and poor, vetoed over 200 pension bills for the civil war, has the most vetos to all past presidents saw his ruling as an oversear |
| Tariff issue (mckainley tariff 1890) | Tariff increases by 49% tax on imports in 1888 industry grows trust goes down causing other countries to not want to but from them |
| Trust | Companies and monopolies |
| Progressive income tax | If you make 0 you pay 0 if you make over 600,000 you pay up to 35% of tax |
| 1888 election | Clevlend looses to Harrison |
| Facotry workers forced to | Vote for their bosses preference because of non secret voting by the bosses using fear and intimidation |
| Interstate commerce act 1887 | Regulation coming back to the econamy |
| Sherman antitrust act 1890 | Regulates monopolies by breaking them up |
| 1892 Clevlend wins however looses support because of | Tariff, money issues, used federal troops in Pullman trick 1894 |
| Monopolies led to | Child labor, poor work conditions, tenament housing , gap between rich and poor increase, bad living conditions, low wages |
| Population in cities is | Overpopulated |
| Tenament house act of 1879 | Minimized how many people in a certain house or apartment |
| Populism | A political part known as the “people party” representing the people |
| Things the populists wanted | Break up banks for smaller banks, wanted rient senators to be elected, gov to own rail and telephones, for regulation.Restriction on immigration, 8hr work day, getting rid of Pinkertons, Australian secret ballot, silver coming back, single term vice pres |
| Gold bug | Favoring gold econamy |
| Sulverite | Favoring silver |
| Jennings Bryan | Religious, cross of gold speech of how gold will ruin the economy, |
| Gold starts coming into econamy | Populism starts to decline |
| Progressives | Focused on the rust belt wanted progression |
| Progressive act comes because | Such poor work environments |
| Homestead strike 1892 | Carnegie workers strike for better wages hours and conditions however pinkertons called to make them go back to work out of fear however the workers fight back leading 9 to die in the fight |
| Progressive era | Wants reform in states, |
| Muckrakers | Progressive journalists who exposed those who did bad things in businesses helps reform |
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