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commuter trains
The ________ and trolleys allowed a growing middle class of business executives and professionals (accountants, doctors, engineers, sales clerks, teachers, store managers, and attorneys) to retreat from crowded downtowns to quieter, tree- lined "streetcar suburbs."
Civil War
Before the ________, Romanticism had dominated American literature and painting.
Cleveland
________ had first attracted national attention in 1881 when he was elected mayor of Buffalo on an anti- corruption platform.
William McKinley
________, who had sponsored the tariff bill, lost his seat (although the following year he would be elected Ohios governor)
Sherman Antitrust Act
The ________ was rarely enforced, in large part because of its vague definitions of "trusts "and "monopolies ..
Sherman Act
The ________ helped set the stage for the currency issue to eclipse all others during the financial panic that would sweep the country in 1893.
Bryan
________ carried most of the West and all of the South but found little support in the North and East.
Leonidas Polk
________, a former Confederate general who was the head of the North Carolina Alliance, traveled to Kansas and was so impressed by the size of the open- air farm rallies that he declared that farmers across the nation "have risen up and inaugurated a movement such as a world has never seen ..
San Francisco
In 1873, ________ became the first city to use cable cars that clamped onto a moving underground cable driven by a central power source.
Alabama
________ was the banner Populist state of the South, with 37 percent of its vote going to Weaver.
Lily Bart
________, the heroine of Edith Whartons The House of Mirth (1905), declares that she "must have a great deal of money "to be happy.
fiery evangelical moralist
A(n) ________, Bryan was a two- term congressman who had lost a race for the Senate in 1894, when Democrats by the dozens were swept out of office.
Ohio
In 1879, ________ congressman James Garfield warned Hayes that "if he wishes to hold any influence "with fellow Republicans, he "must abandon some of his notions of Civil Service reform ..
Grover Cleveland
Three presidents vetoed bills banning illiterate immigrants: ________ in 1897, William H. Taft in 1913, and Woodrow Wilson in 1915 and 1917.
1887
In ________, Charles W. Macune, the Southern Alliance president, urged Texas farmers to create their own Alliance Exchange to free themselves from dependence on commercial warehouses, grain elevators, food processors, and banks.
1890
By ________, the white Alliance movement had about 1.5 million members, and the Colored Farmers National Alliance claimed more than 1 million members.
Darwin
________ showed how the chance processes of evolution give energy and unity to life.
Hayes
________ had been the compromise presidential nominee of two factions fighting for control of the Republican party, the so-called Stalwarts and Half-Breeds, led, respectively, by Senators Roscoe Conkling of New York and James G. Blaine of Maine.
Iowa
In 1887, Protestant activists in ________ formed the American Protective Association (APA), a secret organization whose members pledged never to employ or vote for a Roman Catholic.
Pennsylvania
Born in ________ to Irish immigrants, Lease migrated to Kansas, taught school, raised a family, and failed at farming in the mid- 1880s.
Chicago
The Democratic convention, held in ________, was one of the great turning points in political history.
Mark Twain
Centered in the large cities and major universities of the northeast, the Mugwumps were mostly professors, editors, and writers who included in their number the most famous American of the time, writer and humorist ________.
Mugwumps
The ________, a self-appointed group of reformers dedicated to promoting honest government, saw the election as a "moral rather than political "contest.
Otis Elevator Company
In 1889, the ________ installed the first electric elevator, which made it possible to construct much taller buildings.
Social Darwinism
________ implied the need for hands-off, laissez-faire government policies; it argued against the regulation of business or of required minimum standards for sanitation and housing.
Irish
During the 1880s, Protestant Republicans infuriated many immigrants and Catholics of ________, Italian, or German backgrounds by promoting efforts to limit or prohibit the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Congress
Throughout American history, ________ has passed laws regulating immigration; largely, these statutes have been inconsistent in their goals and frequently motivated by racial and ethnic prejudice.
Englishman Herbert Spencer
________, a leading social philosopher, was the first major prophet of what came to be called social Darwinism.
Saloons
________ were the workingmans social club and were especially popular among male immigrants seeking companionship in a strange land.
Monetary inflation
________ was popular with farmers because it allowed them to repay their debts with cheaper money.
Gilded Age
Political life during the ________ was shaped by three main factors: the balance of power between Democrats and Republicans, the high level of public participation in everyday politics, and the often corrupt alliance between business and political leaders at all levels of government.
civil service reform
He supported ________, opposed expanding the money supply, and preferred free trade to high tariffs.
Spencer
________ argued that human society and its institutions, like the organisms studied by Darwin, evolved through the same process of natural selection.
President Rutherford B Hayes
________ brought to the White House in 1877 both a lingering controversy over the disputed election results (critics called him "His Fraudulency "or "His Accidency) "and uprightness that was in sharp contrast to the barely concealed graft of the Grant era.
Civil War
The period from the end of the ________ to the beginning of the twentieth century was an era noted for the widening social and economic gap between the powerful and the powerless, the haves and have- nots.
1890
In ________, farm activists in Colorado joined with miners and railroad workers to form the Independent Party, and Nebraska farmers formed the Peoples Independent Party.
William McKinley
________, the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 raised duties (taxes) on imported manufactured goods to their highest level ever and added many agricultural products to the tariff list to appease farmers.
Hayes
________ appointed a Democrat as postmaster general in an effort to clean up an office infamous for trading jobs for political favors.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Though badly needed, the ________ was a toothless hoax intended to make it appear that Congress was clamping down on the gigantic corporations dominating more and more industries.
election of 1896
The ________ symbolized the central conflict of the Gilded Age: the clashing cultural and economic values of two Americas, one older, small- scale, and rural, the other newer, large-scale, and urban.
Cleveland
Although ________ was known for his honesty and integrity, he was hurt by two personal issues: the discovery that he had paid for a substitute to take his place in the Union army during the Civil War, and a juicy sex scandal that erupted when a Buffalo newspaper revealed that ________, a bachelor, had befriended an attractive widow named Maria Halpin, who named him the father of her baby born in 1874.
Cleveland
In 1887, ________ argued that Congress should reduce both the tariff rates and the number of imported goods subject to tariffs to enable European companies to compete in the American marketplace.
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