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Presidential Reconstruction Plan
Lincoln's and Johnson's plan to bring both the north and south back to the way they were before the Civil War.
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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
outlined Lincoln's plan for reunion and reconstruction
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Wade-Davis Bill
written by Radical Republicans Benjamin Wade and Henry Winter Davis
proposed plan for reconstruction
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Andrew Johnson
17th president
plan for reconstruction
only southern senator to stay in the senate
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Freedman's Bureau
aided distressed freed slaves during reconstruction period
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Black Codes
laws passed in southern states that restricted the freedoms of the blacks and encouraged them to work and receive low wages
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Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction
wanted emancipation and reconstruction that benefited the blacks
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Radical Republicans
a faction of the republican party that opposed slavery and distrusted ex-confederates.
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Charles Sumner
involved in emancipation, reconstruction, and civil rights
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Thaddeus Stephens
Abolitionist
involved in reconstruction
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Benjamin Wade
radical republican
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
Protect rights of African Americans after Civil War
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Fourteenth Amendment
equal protection
child born in the U.S. is a U.S. citizen
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Reconstruction Acts
4 acts
confederate states to be readmitted into the Union
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Tenure of Office Act
law enacted to restrict power of the president by not allowing him to remove certain office holders without the approval of the senate
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Edwin Stanton
Lincoln's secretary of war
used his management to help lead union troops to victory
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impeachment
the act of removing a federal office holder from their office
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Fifteenth Amendment
prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizens right to vote
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scalawags
southern whites who supported reconstruction and the republican party
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carpetbaggers
northerners who moved south during the reconstruction era
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Blanche K. Bruce
first black senator to serve a full term
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Hiram Revels
minister in African Methodist Episcopal Church
senator and congressman
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sharecropping
land owner allows tenant to use land in return for share of crops produced
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spoilsmen
a person who seeks profit from the spoils system
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patronage
granting favors, giving contracts, or making appointments to office in return for political support.
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Jane Addams
created the Hull House
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Frank L. Baum
created the Wizard of Oz
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Catharine Beecher
was a proponent of Victorian Morality
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Edward Bellamy
wrote Looking Backwards
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William Jennings Bryan
"Cross of Gold" speech
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Andrew Carnegie
critic of imperialism and the Spanish American War
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Carrie Chapman Catt
President of the National American Women's Suffrage Association
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Anthony Comstock
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
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Leon Czolgosz
assassinated President McKinley
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Herbert Croly
wrote newspaper The New Republic
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Eugene V. Debbs
president of the American Railway Union
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John Dewey
Education Reform
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Theodore Dreiser
wrote The Financier
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W.E.B. DuBois
wrote The Souls of Black Folk
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William Lloyd Garrison
wrote The Liberator
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Washington Gladden
Social Gospel Movement
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Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
First Progressive Supreme Court Justice
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William James
wrote "Pragmatism"
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Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones
reform mayor of Toledo, Ohio
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Scott Joplin
wrote "Maple Leaf Rag"
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Florence Kelley
National Consumers' League/ labor reform
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Rudyard Kipling
wrote The White Man's Burden
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Robert LaFollette
Wisconsin Political Reformer
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Mary Lease
Farmer's Alliance
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Henry Cabot Lodge
supported immigration restrictions
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
wrote Influence of Sea Power Upon History
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Frederick Law Olmstead
Designer of city parks
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Alice Paul
Congressional Union Party/ Women's Party
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Jacob Riis
wrote How the Other Half Lives
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Margaret Sanger
birth control advocate
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Lincoln Steffens
wrote Shame of the Cities
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Ida Tarbell
wrote History of Standard Oil
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Frederick Jackson Turner
wrote Frontier Thesis
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William Tweed
boss of Tammany Hall
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Robert Wagner
reformed NY state labor laws
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Booker T. Washington
created the Tuskegee Institute
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Ida B. Wells
spoke out against lynching
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Frank Lloyd Wright
modernist architect
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Jay Gould
leading American railroad developer and speculator
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Credit Mobilier
scandal involving Union Pacific Railroad and Credit Mobilier of America construction company
in relation to building of eastern part of first transcontinental railroad
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William Tweed
boss of Tammany Hall
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Thomas Nast
German immigrant
"Father of the American Cartoon"
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Liberal Republicans
short lived third party of 1872 that attempted to curb Grant administration corruption
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Horace Greely
Colorful, eccentric newspaper editor who carried the liberal republicans and the democrat banners against Grant in 1872
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Panic of 1873
financial crisis that triggered depression in North America and Europe
1873-1879
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Greenbacks
paper currency issued by the federal government that had no gold or silver backing it
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Redeemers
white democrats who used political power to oppress black community
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Ku Klux Klan
whit supremacist society that was originally founded as a social club by former confederate soldiers after the civil war
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Force Acts
government forbid the use of force or terror to prohibit someone from voting because of their race
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Amnesty Act of 1872
removed the last of the restrictions on former confederates except for the leaders
allowed southern conservatives to vote for democrats to retake control of congress
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Governor of Ohio nominated by the republicans for the election of 1876
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Samuel J. Tilden
Democratic nominee for the presidential election of 1876
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Compromise of 1877
imbalance in number of popular votes
Hayes to become president under the conditions that he must immediately remove federal support for the republicans in the south and support the building of the transcontinental railroad
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Comstock Lode
richest known U.S. deposit of silver ore
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Suspended Chinese immigration
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cattle drivers
cowboys leading large herds of cattle north
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cowboys
a hired man who tends to cattle and performs many of his duties on horseback
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barbed wire
Joseph Glidden's cheaper way to make fencing
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Great Plains
the frontier that was settled by thousands during the homestead act of 1862
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Oklahoma Territory
A territory that was once set aside for use by Native Americans that was thrown open for settlement in 1889
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Frederick Jackson Turner
Frontier Thesis
argued that 300 years of frontier experience played a fundamental role in shaping the unique character of American society
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Indian Reservations
large tracts of land assigned to plains tribes with definite boundaries
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Indian Wars
Sporadic outbursts of fighting between U.S. troops and plains people
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Sitting Bull
A leader in the Red River War against the Comanche and a second Sioux war
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Crazy Horse
a leader in the Red River War against the Comanchs, and a second Sioux War
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George Custer
A commander that was defeated by the Sioux Indians at Little Big Horn in 1876
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Little Big Horn
battle between the Sioux Indians and U.S. troops that resulted in U.S. defeat in 1876
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Chief Joseph
A man who led a band of Nez Perce Indians into Canada. The effort was ended in defeat and surrender in 1877
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Helen Hunt Jackson
Author of the book: A Century of Dishonor
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Dawes Severalty Act
A new approach designed to break up tribal organizations. New policy proved a failure
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Ghost Dance
The last effort of Native americans to resis U.s. domination and drive whites from their ancestral lands, came through as a religious movement
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Wounded Knee
A massacre in which over 200 Native American Men, women, and children were gunned down by the U.S. Army in the Dakotas. Marked the end of the Indian wars.
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Indian Reorganization Act
An act that promoted the reestablishment of tribal organization and culture
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New South
The vision of some southerners of a self-sufficient Southern economy built on modern capitalist values, industrial growth, and improved transportation
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crop lien system
The borrowing of supplies by farmers from local merchants with a lien, or mortgage on their crops to be paid at harvest
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George Washington Carver
An African American scientist at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, who promoted the growing of such crops as peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans
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Tuskegee Institute
A scientific institute in Alabama
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Farmer's Southern Alliance
An organization that rallied behind political reforms to solve the farmer's economic problems
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Colored Farmer's National Alliance
An organization for colored farmers who rallied behind political reforms to solve the farmers' economic problems
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segregation laws
laws created by the reedemers in order to treat African Americans as social inferiors by separating them from whites in public facilities
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Civil Rights Cases of 1883
A case in which the court ruled that Congress could not legislate against the racial descrimination practiced by private citizens, which included railroads, hotels, and other businesses used by the public
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Plessy v. Ferguson
A landmark case in which the Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana law requiring "separate but equal accommodations" for white and black passengers on railroads. The court ruled that the Louisiana law did not violate the 14th ammendment's guarantee of "equal protection of the laws"
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Jim Crow Laws
A wave of segregation laws
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grandfather clause
made it impossible for anyone to vote who didnt have a grandfather who had placed ballots in elections before reconstruction
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poll tax
a tax on voting making it impossible for poor people to vote
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literacy test
a literacy test required in order to be able to vote
made it impossible for poorly educated blacks and immigrants to vote
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Henry Turner
a bishop who formed the International Migration Society in 1894 to help American blacks emigrate to Africa
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Ida B. Wells
Editor of the Memphis Free Speech, a black newspaper
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Booker T. Washington
former slave who graduated from Hampton Institute.
He established an agricultural school in Tuskegee Alabama
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National Negro Business League
a league which established 320 chapters across the country to support business owned and operated by African American
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Grange Movement/ Grangers
Organized by Oliver H. Kelley primarily as a social and educational organization for farmers and their families. Took political action to defend members against middlemen, trusts, and railroads.
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Granger Laws
laws that regulated the rates charges by railroads and elevators.
Made it illegal for railroads to fix prices by means of pools and give rebates
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Munn v. Illinois
Supreme Court upheld right of a state to regulate business of a public nature such as railroads
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Wabash v. Illinois
Supreme Court ruled that individual states could not regulate interstate commerce
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Interstate Commerce Act
Required all railroad rated to be reasonable and just.
Set up first federal regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce Commision
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farmers' alliances
Alliances formed in different states and regions to serve farmers' needs for education in the latest scientific methods as well as for organized economic and political action
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Ocala Platform
A platform that supported direct election of U.S. senators, lowered tariff rates, set a graduated income tax, and created a new banking system regulated by the federal government
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Consolidation of Railroads
uniformity, new technology, price fixing, monopolies, improved transportation lowers prices, time zones, government regulation of business
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Vanderbilt
Steamboats
railroads
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Gould
Railroads
watering stock
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J.P. Morgan
Banks
railroads
keeps country from going bankrupt
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Rockefeller
Standard oil
refining
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Sherman anti-trust act
- "Combinations in restraint of trade"
- - price fixing, monopoly
ineffective
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U.S. v. E. C. Knight
- weakened sherman anti-trust act
- SC rules narrowly
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U.S. v. swift
Manufacturing is part of a stream of commerce
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Advertising
Attract customers
brand loyalty
sell overstock
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South slow to industrialize
Lack of capital
lack of education
racism
lack of cities/lack of labor
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Urban growth
Immigrants -11 million
farms to cities/ economic opportunity
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Challenges to Immigration
South europe - spain, italy, greece, balkans
eastern europe- russia, jews
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Challenges
- Ellis island - medical inspection
- employment opportunities (low skill jobs only)
- dangerous voyage
- language barrier
- nativism
- ethnic communities
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Slums
- Crowded
- poor accomidations
- pollution
- high infant mortality
- crime
- fire
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Department store
One stop shopping
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Higher education
- Sports
- coed education
- better training for doctors
- expansion of higher ed private colleges
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Leisure time
- Need for social distraction from factory life
- disposable income
- artificial light
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Gilded age reform movements
- Labor
- socialism
- poverty morality
- NY children's aid society
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Labor movement
Wages and hours
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Socialism
- Gov't should own business
- share profit
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Poverty morality
- Poverty was a result of a person's immorality
- jacob Riis - how the other half lives
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NY Children's Aid Society
Orphanages
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Rebates
Discounts issued by railroad companies
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