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Gilded age and great depression
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11th Grade
04/24/2014

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gilded age
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many people were poor and they tried to hide it with covering things with gold
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political machines
Definition
took control of cities by rigging elections; used illegal means to gain votes (boss marcy tweed)
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Hawley-smoot tarrif
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1930. Hoover's attempt to save the economy but resulted in the hault of all foreign trade. His goal was to protect american jobs and farmers.
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1928 election
Definition
republican- Hoover
Democrats- alfred Smith
issues- prohibition, urban vs rural values, immigration, religion. Smith lost because he was on the wrong side of all of these conflicts
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nativism
Definition
hostility from native born americans toward new immigrants. Catholics formed "know nothing" party
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tarrif
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tax on goods
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tenement or slum living
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dumbell tenements, caused death by disease
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gentlemen's agreement
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1907. Jap government limited unskilled workers to the US in exchange for San Francisco lifting segregation
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old immigrants
Definition
protestant who came from north and west Europe. moved to great plains
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Mckinley Tariff
Definition
1892. big business favors. raised tariffs on manufactured goods to the highest price to date
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Chinese exclusion act
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West encouraged. 1882. Denied citizenship to people born in China and the immigraation of chineese laborers for 10 years. US feared their customs and practices. California group that formed against Chinese were named the working mans party.
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where the German and Irish arived
Definition
NY City Ellis Island
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where the Chinese and Japanese arrived
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California at Angle Island
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patornage
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A.K.A. spoil system. Giving government jobs to people who helped get president elected. Replaced by the merit system
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Wilson-Gorman tariff
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1894. Revenue act. imposed 2% income tax, first peacetime income tax
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civil service reform act
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A.K.A. Pendleton act of 1883. Government administration. EStablished civil service commission to ensure that jobs would be given to those who qualified through examination
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civil service commission
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ensured jobs would be given according to qualifications through examinations
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boss tweed
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Tweed ring. Ran Tammany Hall
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reasons for depression
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farm debt
stock market speculation
use of credit
uneven distribution of income
traditional government policy
overproduction of consumer goods
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margin call
Definition
stockbrokers demand for immediate repayment of a loan
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margin buying
Definition
purchasing stocks with borrowed money as little as 10% could be paid down on secured stocks
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results of stock market crash
Definition
car industry crashed
workers got laid off
banks went under
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hoovers attempts to rescue the us
Definition
rugged individualism
state government helps
RFC (trickle down theory)
hawley smoot tariff
international trade went down
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veterans bonous
Definition
organized a march on Washington to demand bonus. tried to pass patman bonus bill. Hoover orderd military force under general mcarthur to remove veterans
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patman bonus bill
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veterans wanted bonus in installments throughout the years
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election of 1932
Definition
democrat- FDR
republican- Hoover
issue- depression
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new immigrants and push and pull factors
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catholic and Jews coming from south and east Europe
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black thursday
Definition
stock market plunge began on wallstreet
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black tuesday
Definition
the stock market crash
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reconstruction finance corporation
Definition
lend government funds to endangered banks
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trickle down theory
Definition
give money to the rich and it will fall down to the poor FAILED
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