0. Unit II Flashcards
Chapters 19 and 20

1. American Federation of Labor (AFL)#1
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Union formed in 1886 that organized skilled workers along craft lines and emphasized a few workplace issues rather than a broad social program.
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2. Chinese Exclusion Act Review#2
Chinese Exclusion Act
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Act that suspended Chinese immigration, limited the civil rights of resident Chinese, and forbade their naturalization.
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3. Conspicuous consumption#3
Conspicuous consumption
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Highly visible displays of wealth and consumption.
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4. #4
Coxey’s Army
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A protest march of unemployed workers, led by Populist businessman Jacob Coxey, demanding inflation and a public works program during the depression of the 1890s.
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5. #5
Free silver
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Philosophy that the government should expand the money supply by purchasing and coining all the silver offered to it.
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6. Gilded Age #6
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Term applied to late 19th-century America that refers to the shallow display and worship of wealth characteristic of that period.
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7. Gospel of wealth Review#7
Gospel of wealth
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Thesis that hard work and perseverance lead to wealth, implying that poverty is a character flaw.
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8. Grandfather clauses Review#8
Grandfather clauses
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Rules that required potential voters to demonstrate that their grandfathers had been eligible to vote; used in some Southern states after 1890 to limit the black electorate.
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9. #9
Grange
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The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, a national organization of farm owners formed after the Civil War.
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10. #10
Granger laws
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State laws enacted in the Midwest in the 1870s that regulated rates charged by railroads, grain elevator operators, and other middlemen.
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11. Great Uprising of 1877 Review
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Great Uprising of 1877
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Unsuccessful railroad strike of 1877 to protest wage cuts and the use of federal troops against strikers; the first nationwide work stoppage in American history.
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12. Horizontal combination
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Horizontal combination
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The merger of competitors in the same industry.
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13. Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
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Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
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The 1887 law that expanded federal power over business by prohibiting pooling and discriminatory rates by railroads and establishing the first federal regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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14. Segregation laws that became widespread in the South during the 1890s.
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Jim Crow Laws
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Segregation laws that became widespread in the South during the 1890s.
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15. Knights of Labor Review
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Knights of Labor
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Labor union founded in 1869 that included skilled and unskilled workers irrespective of race and gender.
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16. National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
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The organization, formed in 1890 that coordinated the ultimately successful campaign to achieve women’s right to vote.
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17. Nativism
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Favoring the interests and culture of native-born inhabitants over those of immigrants.
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18. Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
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A law of 1883 that reformed the spoils system by prohibiting government workers from making political contributions and creating the Civil Service Commission to oversee their appointment on the basis of merit rather than politics.
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19. Plessy v. Ferguson Review
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Supreme Court decision holding that Louisiana’s railroad segregation law did not violate the Constitution as long as the railroads or the state provided equal accommodations.
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20. #20
Populism
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A mass movement of the 1890s formed on the basis of the Southern Farmers’ Alliance and other reform organizations.
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21. Protective Association
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Protective Association
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Organizations formed by mine owners in response to the formation of labor unions.
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22. #22
Segregation
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A system of racial control that separated the races, initially by custom but increasingly by law during and after Reconstruction.
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23. Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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1890 act that directed the Treasury to increase the amount of currency coined from silver mined in the West and also permitted the U.S. government to print paper currency backed by the silver.
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24. Southern Farmers’ Alliance
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Southern Farmers’ Alliance
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The largest of several organizations that formed in the post-Reconstruction South to advance the interests of beleaguered small farmers.
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25. #25
Tenements
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Four to six story residential dwellings, once common in New York, built on tiny lots without regard to providing ventilation or light.
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26. Vertical integration Review
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Vertical integration
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The consolidation of numerous production functions, from the extraction of the raw materials to the distribution and marketing of the finished products, under the direction of one firm.
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27. Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
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Women’s organization whose members visited schools to educate children about the evils of alcohol, addressed prisoners, and blanketed men’s meetings with literature.
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28. Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
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Boston organization offering classes to wage-earning women.
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29. Reference Faragher, J. M. , Buhle, M. J. , Czitrom, D. , & Armitage, S
Reference Faragher, J. M., Buhle, M. J., Czitrom, D., & Armitage, S. H. (2009). Out of many: A history of the American people, Vol. I (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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