Chapter 26 Jeporady/ Glided Age Jeporady

What was mined out of the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859?

Union that allowed only skilled workers to join

Negative name for wealthy industrialists during the 19th Century

Riot between workers and police in Chicago, bomb was thrown

Government takes a hands off approach to business

Legislation passed by Congress that prevented special rates on railroads and required rates to be posted

Founder of Tuskegee Institute, vocational education to make money, whites see you as equals

Those who believed that a person’s wealth and success was dependent upon how hard they worked

A person has the right to make as much money as possible, but should then give much of it away

Womens group that sought to eliminate alcohol

Cross of Gold speech

His writings and political cartoons exposed "Boss" Tweed

Leader of the Stalwarts

President responsible for patronage reform after Garfield’s death

Was awarded the presidency as a result of the Compromise of 1877

Time marked by governmental corruption, horrible working conditions, mass immigration, and wealthy industrialists

Creed that stated the South should industrialize, led by Henry Grady

First Billion dollar corporation

Bankers’ banker, loaned Cleveland and US government gold

Sensational journalism used to attract readers and expose corruption

Jobs for votes

Seperate but equal

When the govenment stopped mining silver

Founder of the Grange (patrons of husbandry

Dominating competition by controlling all phases of an industry

Author who was interested in women’s psychology and used women as central character

What is the term for a miner panning for gold in a creek bed?

When the mine busted, what was most likely to happen to the boom town that had grown up around the mine?

What was necessary to carry on a big mining operation like sinking a shaft mine?

Why was mining important in opening the west?

What was it called when cowboys walked the cows from the open range in Texas to meet the transcontinental railroad?

Who created the long drive and saw in it economic potential?

What was the inspiration for the American cowboy?

What made the post Civil War cattle industry possible in the first place?

What ended the open range cattle industry?

Who invented barbed wire?

What did John Deere invent that allowed farmers on the plains to cut through thick prairie sod?

Why did plains newcomers build homes out of sod?

What was the farming method called in which plows cut deeply into the soil to bring up moist earth to give crops water?

In the 1880’s, what was the problem that ended the big bonanza farms?

Who were the major members of the Populist Party?

What was the issue of the election of 1896?

The free coinage of silver to inflate the money supply and bring the farmer relief

Who was the 1896 Populist candidate for President?

What was the "Crime of ’73?"

Silver was dropped from the Federal coinage list (silver would not be coined!)

List 5 parts of the Populist platform.

Government control of utilities, an income tax, the secret ballot, the free and unlimited coinage of silver, direct elections of Senators, government-sponsored savings banks

What was the official name of the Grange?

What farmer’s organization replaced the Grange?

He and his followers marched on Washington, DC to ask Congress for a jobs stimulus program.

What law allowed western settlers acreage in exchange for living on it and farming it?

In competition with world grain producers, what was a major problem faced by settlers on the Great Plains in the 1870’s?

He published his frontier thesis in 1893, three years after the Federal Census Office issued its report on the closing of the frontier.