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Life at the Turn of the Century
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9th Grade
10/01/2010

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Gilded Age
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post construction era , covered in thin layer of gold but made of iron

 

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Spoils System
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under this system, elected officials appointed friends and supporters to government jobs regardless of their qualifications, a lot of bribery and corruption
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James Garfield's assasination
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July 2, 1881, shot by a mentally unstable lawyer at a Washington DC railroad station
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
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1883, classified government jobs and tested applicants' fitness for them, also stated that federal employees couldn't be required to campaign funds or be fired for political reasons
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William McKinley's Assasination
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September 6, 1901, McKinley went on a tour of Buffalo, new york, was shot by a nutty guy who called himself an anarchist
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Tenements

 

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low-cost apartments designed to house as many families as an owner could pack in
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Political machine
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an unoffcial city organization designed to keep a particular group or party in power  and usually headed by a single powerful boss
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Graft
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use of one's job to gain profit
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George B. Cox
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fairly honest politcical machine boss, won office and used his post to guarentee elction victories and business contracts for the part faithful, but improved the quality of police forces and city services
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William Marcy Tweed
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notorious boss, gained access to city treasury and plundered it stealing millions
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Tammany Hall
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the political club William Marcy Tweed controlled, ran NY democractic party
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Thomas Nast
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used his brilliant political cartoons to prove William Marcy Tweed's wrongdoings to the public
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Settlement House
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a kind of community center, community center that helped immigrants
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Jane Addams
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created a settlement house in Chicago to help their iimigrant neighbors
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Hull House
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the settlement house Jane Addams started that helped immigrants adapt to US life
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Nativism
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policy of favoring native born Americans over immigrants
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Temperance Movement
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an organized campaign to eliminate alchol consumption
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Carry Nation
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famous activist who smashed illegal saloons with a hatchet all over Kansas
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Dumbell Tenements
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specail tenements shaped like dumbells
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