APUSH Period 6

Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, B. Harrison, & McKinley

Mark Twain

It emphasized on the many great fortunes and inequalities of wealth that were created.

Gold Ring

All the scandals dealt with his administration.

• Democratic Party in New York

• Congress discontinued the minting of SILVER dollars in the Coinage Act

• Political battle in the Republican Party

Party regulars who favored Grant and the spoils system.

Supporters of mild civil service reform. Known for "Waving the Bloody Shirt".

The phrase refers to the Republican demagogic practice of politicians referencing the blood of martyrs or heroes to inspire support or avoid criticism.

Rutherford B. Hayes

A compromise was reached - the Republicans kept the Presidency and in return promised to end Reconstruction

Promoted economic development of the arid public lands of the West.

James Garfield

He was assassinated by a despondent office seeker.

Chester A. Arthur

Set up a Civil Service Commission to administer a system based on merit rather than political connections.

Established in San Francisco and was formed in response to the high unemployment and in sympathy with the nation-wide railroad strike of that year.

• Provided a 10 year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration

Anti-Catholic

Grover Cleveland

Liberal Republicans backed Cleveland and advocated "clean government".

Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland

Regulated railroads

Benjamin Harrison

Required all silver to be used in federal coinage

Grover Cleveland

Panic of 1893 dominated his second term

Failure but succeeded in publicizing the plight of the unemployed.

William McKinley

The Depression guaranteed him a win.

National Labor Unions

The coming of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe would change the urban landscape.

The U.S would change from an agricultural nation to an industrial one.

Steel Processing

Air Brake for Trains

They argued that if men were left completely free to do as the please, evolution would take place and they would eventually evolve and become perfect.

Those would could not evolve would perish according to the concept of "survival of the fittest".

Accumulation of wealth and success

Disease, poverty, or failure

Businesses used this philosophy to justify its actions.

This terms comes from the medieval German lords who illegally charged exorbitant tolls against ships traversing the Rhine River.

This term viewed these men as ingenious and industrious leaders who transformed the American economy with their skills.

Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan

WEALTH

He argued that the accumulation of wealth was beneficial to society and that government should take no action to impede it.

• Became the richest man in the world

U.S. Steel Corporation - largest in the world

• Created American's most powerful and feared monopoly

Banking Corporations

Term was used to contrast the industrial South that emerged after the era of Reconstruction to the Old South.

Merging all groups into one homogeneous mass was the basis of Theories of Americanization

First and most important of the settlement houses.

Jane Addams

The main purpose was to provide social and educational opportunities for working class people in the neighborhood.

Settlement house in New York headed by Lillian Wald. It took care of sick residents of the Lower East Side of NYC.

Uriah Stephens

It included both skilled and unskilled workers.

The Haymarket Riot brought about much anti-union reaction, which brought an end to the Labor Unions.

Samuel Gompers

Samuel Gompers

The main purpose was focusing on economic rather than political reform.

Secret organization of Irish-Americans centered in the coal mining districts of Pennsylvania and they often resorted to violence.

Workers belonging to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers struck the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead, Pa. to protest a proposed wage cut.

Railroad Cars

She lost her husband and 4 children to an epidemic and became involved in the labor movement.

She would adopt American's laborers so they called her "Mother".

African Americans would work the land for the right to use the land and received supplies and a share of the crop for what they grew.

The name was taken from a minstrel show character that described the segregation system that developed in the South after Reconstruction.

Segregate blacks and whites from society.

A white Democratic Party overthrew the Republican Party and was full of violence.

It was completely unlike the first and was a legal mechanism. It caused the black vote and the Republican party to practically disappear in the South.

The Court said Plessy's rights were not denied to him because the separate but equal accommodations provided to blacks were equal to those provided to whites. This decision would sanctify segregation.

Washington believed that education would raise the African American people to equality in the U.S.

The speech explained Washington's major thesis that blacks could secure their constitutional rights through their own economic and moral advancement rather than through legal and political changes.

He renounced Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise accommodation policies.

He founded the National Association of Colored People (NAACP).

The goal was the secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

They changed where people lived and worked and brought about the advent of commuter.

A design to pack a maximum number of people in minimum amount of space. The dominated inner cities.

Macy's in New York

They transformed the shopping expense.

Five-and-Ten-Cent Stores

Frank W. Woolworth

They eliminated the wholesaler and it made materials available at lower prices for immigrants.

The idea was a place that was on the edge between the known and the unknown, the settled and the wild, and has a prominent place in American History.

It was passed by the Republicans that turned over vast amounts of the public domain to provide citizens.

Union Pacific (West)