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Chapter 19
Politics and Reform
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History
12th Grade
09/29/2011

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Gilded
Definition
shallow and glitter
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Professional Bureaucracy
Definition
congressional committees and elite specialists
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James G. Blaine
Definition
Representative that was very powerful and popular
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Roscoe Conkling
Definition
Representative from New York who said government was all about patronage -- never drafted a bill
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Laissez-faire
Definition
(hands off) Economic life free of government interference
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Four important issues
Definition
tariff (tax on imports), money (gold vs. silver standard), civil service, and railroad reform
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Local Issues
Definition
railroads, schools, temperance, and race
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Social Darwinism
Definition
the strong will survive and the fittest move on
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Charles Darwin
Definition
People get stronger (wealthy) and will survive. Poverty gets rid of the weak (poor)
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Henry George
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social reformer that said progress was good but at what social cost and loss of christian values
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Jane Addams
Definition
started the Hull House to help women and children
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Charles Shelton
Definition
wrote books asking them of business and city leaders hoping for reform
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Bossism (boss system)
Definition
give people jobs in return for votes and money to the party
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Samuel Jones
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(self made man) had the Golden Rule Factory and became the mayor of Toledo. He tried to reform but had little success
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
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founded by Stanton and Anthony to help woman's suffrage
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Woman's Voting arguments (3)
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1. Pass Self-protection laws
2. Clean up morals
3. counteract the undesirable influence of ignorant, illiterate, immoral male immigrants
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Two Reasons voting was up in the Gilded Age
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1. Professional Bureaucracy
2. Party realignment
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5 Areas Benjamin Harrison addressed
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1. Pension for civil war veterans
2. Trusts
3. Tariffs
4. Money question
5. Rights for blacks
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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Made it illegal to have restraint of trade which stops large business combinations.
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McKinley Tariff
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set higher protective tariffs
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The Depression of 1893
Definition
Starts in Europe when the oversea buyers cut back. The Europeans aren't investing in the U.S. Crop prices fall wages drop overproduction
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William McKinley
Definition
supports a protective tariff, gold standard and had a huge support from Standard Oil. Considered first modern day president
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