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The Guilded Age
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| John O' Sullivan | Who created the idea of Manifest Destiny? |
| Transcontinental railroad | settlement of the west, markets for eastern manufacturers, relief to overcrowded eastern cities |
| Irish and Chinese Immigrants | Who merged eastern/western lines near Ogden, Utah? |
| celebrations and more capitalism , profits and greed | What followed the beginning of the transcontinental railroad? |
| 200 million acres | How much land did the railroads receive from the US government after fulfilling the contracts? |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt, James Hill, and Jay Gould | Foremost men among tycoons |
| Greedy public officials | Who awarded generous terms to the railroads and had money lined pockets? |
| Railroad companies would set their own higher shipping rates and kept them a secret. | Why was it sometimes more expensive for farmers to ship goods to a nearby town than farther away? |
| They established pools. | What did railroad companies do to reduce competition? |
| access to more goods, the nation is bound together and westward movement | What were some benefits of the railroad? |
| rags-to-riches | What was the famous piece written by Horatio Alger? |
| Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, and Chester Arthur | Who were the forgettable presidents? |
| Republicans | Who dominated the Presidency and Congress |
| Eugene V. Debs | Who ran for president as a socialist and received over 900,000 votes? |
| He ran for President from his jail cell and got 919,000 votes. | After Debs was arrested for anti-war activities, what did he do? |
| William ¨big bill¨ Haywood | Who led the Wobblies which led hundreds of strikes calling for justice and overthrow of the capitalist system/ anti war movement |
| Their efforts sent messages across America that worker were being mistreated | What did the I. W. W. do? |
| People started moving the cities - 17% to over 50% | When factories started to become more popular what happened? |
| Electricity, the telephone, improved sewage, and department stores. | What were some innovations that followed? |
| The housing wasn´t safe, diseases like yellow fever and cholora spread, 25% of babies died before 1, everything stank, and poverty in the city bred crime. | What was the problem with living in urban areas at the time? |
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