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gave �Cross of Gold� speech as Populist presidential candidate

� marked beginning of U.S. war against Native American

� largest Indian victory over U.S. army � defeat of General Custer

� marked end of U.S. war against Native Americans in 1890

� gave land tracts to individual Indian families

� began federal government regulation of railroads

� demands of Populist party in 1896 elec.

� dollars backed only by gold

� dollars backed with gold AND silver

� currency issued by gov�t during Civil War, not backed by metal

� used steam engine to drill for oil

� invented the air brake for RRs, thus making them safer

� used Bessemer process for steel production, wrote Gospel of Wealth

� Standard Oil

� banking, U.S. Steel

� railroads

• � wrote �rags to riches� novels of Gilded age
• Samuel Gompers
• � labor union organizer � led American Federation of Labor

� labor organizer

� began settlement house movement with Hull House

� head of Tammany Hall, powerful NY political machine

� political cartoonist, exposed Tweed corruption

�trusts & monopolies illegal

� limited Japanese immigration

� federal jobs to be awarded on basis of merit

� a company takes over companies that contribute to production of product, including suppliers and transportation

� merging of companies that produce similar products

� vote by general public to accept or reject an initiative

� republicans who voted for Grover Cleveland, a democrat, in election of 1884

� program of progressive reforms by Roosevelt administration

� fought against the evils of alcohol with a Bible and a hatchet

� civil rights activist who urged blacks to work to improve selves and earn racial equality, gave �Atlanta Compromise� speech

� civil rights activist who demanded immediate racial equality and helped found NAACP

� federal gov�t (T.R.) intervened to arbitrate and settle

� �separate but equal� public facilities for different races is constitutional

� direct election of senators

� created a national banking system with regional control