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Gilded Age Terms
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Standard Oil Company | -Founded by Rockefeller -horizontal combination -got trains that wanted steady supply of oil to make long business plans -got other oil companies to sell their stock to SOC -made alot of money. |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | -made to help small businesses -made it illegal to monopolize businesses |
| Grange | -movement that tried to help farmers -got few laws passed -did little to help -farmers blamed railroads and banks that charged huge fees for their hard times |
| Farmers Alliance | -alliance of farmers -fought for farmers rights -“equal rights to all, special privileges to none” -an organized agrarian movement to improve the farming economy |
| Populism | -movement started by a guy in the farmers alliance. -ype of political-social thought that juxtaposes "the people" against "the elites", and urges social and political system changes. |
| Company Town | A town that’s economy relies on whatever company is in it |
| American Railway Union | -Company owned by Eugene V. Debs -largest union of its time -one of 1st industrial unions in USA - |
| Social Gospel | -recognizes the equality in men -religious socialism |
| Nativism | -anti immigrant sentiment that was raising throughout the country at the end of the 1800’s |
| Jim Crow Laws | Southern laws that state governments made the were discriminatory and segregationist laws. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | A case where the court upheld a Louisiana law that segregated railroad passengers on the basis of “separate but equal” doctrine. |
| William Jennings Bryan | A reformer, ran for president in 1896; Ran against McKinley, |
| William McKinley | Ran for president in 1896 against McKinley; civil war veteran,outspent him in his campaign 10 to 1. McKinley won the presidency. Once in office he strengthened the executive branch and actively promoted a mixture of pro-business and expansionist measures. |
| Ida B. Wells | -young black newspaper editor in Memphis -ran an anti lynching crusade by herself. |
| Crop-lien system | a system of credits for crops used by farmers because they had little cash |
| Knights of Labor | didn’t support the wage system, represented everyone from blacks to skilled workers to woman to unskilled workers. |
| American Federation of Labor | accepted the wage system, only represented white men skilled workers, wanted better working conditions, higher wages, and shorter hours for workers |
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