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Gilded Age chp. 2-4

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Captains of Industry (robber barons)   show
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Rockefeller   show
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show a captain of industry in the steel business who believed strongly in the concept of social Darwinism and unrestricted competition  
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show an american financier who financed the reorganization of railroads and industrial consolidation.  
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show a famous inventor who created the phonograph and the light bulb. his contributions to technology changed the lives of everyone in the gilded age  
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show famous for creating the telephone, he changed communication in the U.S. forever with his contributions to technology  
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show Also known as the Great Upheaval. It started in West Virginia when the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company cut wages for the 3rd time. At the end of the strike over 1000 people were imprisoned and around 100 had been killed  
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show In 1886, a labor protest rally in Chicago Haymarket Square turned into a riot after an unknown person threw a bomb at police  
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show an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, starting a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.  
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show The theory that Darwin's idea of "survival of the fittest" in nature could also be applied to human beings in society.  
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settlement house movement   show
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Social Gospel   show
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Political Machines   show
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Gilded Age   show
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show a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters as reward for their support  
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show a series of movements for the improvement of civil services jobs and denounced the spoils system as unjust and corrupt  
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mugwump   show
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stalwarts   show
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the Grange   show
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Populist Party   show
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show Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey. it was caused by a lack of government assistance in making new jobs during the economic decline  
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