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BJU US Ch16b
Gilded Age (1877-1896) BJU- 2nd half of definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Knights of Labor | labor organization was similar to the National Labor Union l ed by Terence V. Powderly, wanted 8 hour work days, equal pay for men and women, and child labor laws. |
| A.F.L. (American Federation of Labor) | This was an early national labor union In 1886, founded by Samuel Gomper. It consisted of an association of self-governing national unions. |
| Haymarket Square Roit | This was an 1886 explosion in Chicago during labor disorders that killed several people including police officers. The explosions appeared to be the result of anarchists yet the public largely placed blame on labor unions thus hurt their cause. |
| Homestead Strike | The workers at a steel plant in Pennsylvania went on strike, forcing the owner to close down. Armed guards were hired to protect the building. The strikers attacked for five months, then gave in to peace demands. |
| Eugene V. Debs | He was a labor leader who helped organize the American Railroad Union. The Union went on strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1894. |
| Pullman Strike | The railroad company decided to cut wages about one |
| Injunction | A judicial order forcing a person or group to refrain from doing something. |
| Socialism | collective government ownership as the means of production. |
| Nation Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry (Grange) | is a fraternal organization for American farmers that encourages farm families to band together for their common economic and political well-being. |
| Populists Party | a political group which began to emerge in 1891. They gained much support from farmers who turned to them to fight political injustice. They used a progressive platform. James B. Weaver ran as their presidential candidate. |
| Free Silver | Those who were in favor of silver over gold in terms of currency. States with a lot of silver wanted unlimited coinage of silver. |
| William McKinley | 25th president elected in 1896 while preaching a gold standard platform and imperialism. He won again in 1900 and was assassinated in 1901. |
| Williams Jennings Bryan | He was an eloquent congressman called the Great Commoner due to his sympathy for the common man. Bryan held the galleries spellbound for three hours as he championed the cause of free silver. |
| Urbanization | movement of the population to the cities. |
| New Immigration | Between the 1850's and 1880's, more than 5 million immigrants cascaded into America from the "mother continent." Starting in the 1880's, the "new immigrants" (mainly Italians, Croats, Slovaks, Greeks, and Poles) came swarming into the U.S. |
| Old Immigration | This was opposed to the “Old Immigration” of northern Europe (England, Ireland, Germany). |
| melting pot | diverse racial and ethnic cultures blend to form a new and unified nation. |
| Charles Darwin | In 1859, he published On the Origin of Species which dealt with the idea of evolution, an idea that strictly conflicted with the literal interpretation of the Bible known as “Creationism.” |
| Mark Twain | One of America's most popular authors. He wrote The Gilded Age and named the period |
| realism | encompasses the period of time from the Civil War to the turn of the century during which authors like Mark Twain wrote fiction devoted to accurate representation and an exploration of American lives in various contexts.Naturalism |
| Jack London | a naturalist who wrote about the wild unexplored regions of wilderness in The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Iron Heel. |
| Stephen Crane | a naturalist wrote about the seamy underside of life in urban, industrial America. (prostitutes, in such books like Maggie: Girl of the Street. and The Red Bad of Courage, a tale about a Civil War soldier. |
| Horatio Alger | He was a popular writer of the Post-Civil War time period. He who wrote more than a hundred volumes of juvenile fiction during his career, most with a "rags-to-riches" theme. He is most famous for his books Luck and Pluck and for Ragged Dick. |
| materialism | the desire for worldly possessions and the belief that only they can bring true happiness. |
| urban evangelism | large city wide campaigns in huge auditoriums in major cities. Dwight L. Moody was the movement’s leader. |
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