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Carrie Astor's 400
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Carrie Astor's Four Hundred | an exclusive list of elite New York society members during the Gilded Age, famously defined by Caroline Schermerhorn Astor ("Mrs. Astor") and compiled with social arbiter Ward McAllister |
| Chicago Home Insurance Company Building | Completed in 1885 on LaSalle Street between Adams and Monroe, it holds the distinction of being among the world's first skyscrapers. A marvel of engineering and a testament to human ingenuity, this iconic tower forever altered the city skyline |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | the first federal civil rights bill in American history, as part of a Republican legislative program designed to shore up the objectives of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill (March 1865) and implement the intentions of the Thirteenth Amendment (in December 1865. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | March 1, 1875; guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public transportation and public accommodations and service on juries. The U.S. Supreme Court declared the act unconstitutional in the Civil Rights Cases (1883). |
| Amasa Leland Stanford | American senator from California, one of the builders of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. Stanford is grouped with the 19th-century entrepreneurial tycoons labeled “robber barons” by their critics and “captains of industry” by their champions. |
| Thaddeus Stevens | U.S. Radical Republican congressional leader during Reconstruction (1865–77) who battled for freedmen’s rights and insisted on stern requirements for readmission of Southern states into the Union after the Civil War (1861–65). |
| Josiah Strong | American Protestant clergyman and a key leader of the Social Gospel movement who used Christian principles to address poverty, crime, and urban issues |
| John L. Sullivan | American professional boxer known as the "Boston Strong Boy" who became the world's first global sports superstar and heavyweight champion |
| Louis Sullivan | an influential American architect often called the "father of skyscrapers" and the "father of modernism." |
| Charles Sumner | U.S. statesman of the American Civil War period dedicated to human equality and to the abolition of slavery. |
| William Graham Sumner | U.S. sociologist and economist, prolific publicist of Social Darwinism. |
| Gustavus Swift | American business executive. He founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century, over which he presided until his death |
| Lyman Trumbull | American lawyer, judge, and U.S. Senator from Illinois who played a pivotal role in the American Civil War and Reconstruction as the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. |
| Mark Twain | American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature" |
| Cleveland Oil War | a fierce 1872 conflict centered in Ohio involving John D. Rockefeller, his Standard Oil Company, and their maneuvers to dominate petroleum transportation and absorb competing refiners |
| Coinage Act (1873) | also known as the Mint Act of 1873 or 4th Coinage Act; was signed into law by President Grant on Feb 12, 1873, into effect on Apr 1, 1873. It overhauled U.S. Mint laws and effectively ended domestic bimetallism by halting the free coinage of silver $ |
| Colfax Massacre (1873) | armed group of white supremacists attacks a courthouse guarded by a most-Black militia in Colfax, LA on Apr 13, 1873. bloodbath ensues, the militia surrenders and the whi. sup. carry out day-long campaign of terror |
| Comstock Act (1873) | a federal anti-obscenity statute that criminalized the mailing or interstate transport of materials considered obscene, including contraceptives and abortion-related drugs or devices |
| Comstock Lode | the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States, located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson in Virginia City, Nevada |
| Congressional Election of 1824 | between July 7, 1824, and August 30, 1825, completely reshaping the US political landscape. in conjunction with the 1824 election, these congressional races brought an end to the "Era of Good Feelings" and triggered a massive political realignment |
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