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Chapter 19 Terms
AP US History terms for chapter 19 of The American Promise
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10th Grade
01/24/2011

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Jacob Riis
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reporter turned photographer to randomly go into tenements unannounced and take pictures as they were, revealing the horribleness of such things
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Samuel Gompers
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founded the Organized Trades and Labor Unions in 1881 and it turned into the American Federation of Labor, skilled workers and strikes
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Terrence Powderly
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head of the Knights of Labor during their rise to power in the 1880s, championed arbitration and preferred to use boycotts over riots
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Louis Sullivan
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one of the world's finest architects, gave Chicago its buildings, "form follows function"
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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landscape architect, designed Central Park in NYC and grounds for the U.S. Capitol, plus around the nation
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Boss Tweed
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most notorious of city bosses, political party organized at the grassroots level, kept Dems together through the use of bribery and graft, had control of NYC
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Thomas Nast
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cartoonist who made bossism understandable to normal people, Harper's Weekly
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Lincoln Steffens
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journalist, "Shame of Cities" series of articles exposing corruption
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Great Railway Strike of 1877
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started by brakemen in WV over pay cuts, spread throughout nation and types of labor, death and violence
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Ellis Island
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immigration center in NYC, opened in 1900
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American Federation of Labor
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Gompers, coordinated the activities of craft unions throughout the nation, fan of strikes
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Haymarket Riot
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AFL and Knights of Labor cooperated for striking/rioting in Chicago, death and wounds on both sides (but mainly workers)
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Coney Island
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cheap amusement center opened in NYC, appealed to middle class
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Central Park
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Olmstead, breath of fresh air away from city, in middle of NYC (but not really accessible to low class
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Tammany Hall
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New York's citywide Democratic machine, run by Boss Tweed
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bossism
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use of bribery and graft to control city without ever taking office, Tweed
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Columbian Exposition
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Chicago in 1893, grandest world's fair yet with entertainment and culture, White City
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