Gilded Age (1877-1896) -1st half of definitions
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| Cornelius Vanderbilt | show 🗑
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| show | He was a steel tycoon. He was a master of “vertical integration.”
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| show | This was a business method where a corporation bought out other businesses along its line of production.
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| John D. Rockefeller | show 🗑
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| show | absorption into a single company of several companies involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level.
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| J.P. Morgan | show 🗑
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| U.S. Steel Company | show 🗑
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| James B. Duke | show 🗑
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| show | He was the inventor of the telephone.
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| show | He was the perfector of the incandescent light bulb, and many other inventions such as the phonograph, mimeograph, dictaphone, and moving pictures.
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| Roscoe Conkling | show 🗑
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| show | This was a political machine led by Roscoe Conkling of New York in the late 19th Century. Their goal was to seek power in government. They also supported the spoils system.
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| James A. Garfield | show 🗑
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| show | He was the VP of James A. Garfield. After President Garfield was assassinated, in September of 1881, he assumed the presidency. He was chosen to run as vice president, primarily, to gain the Stalwarts’ votes. He was also in favor of civil service reform.
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| show | 22nd &24th president in 1884 election. He had an illegitimate child. Consequently, the election turned into a mudslinging contest. Cleveland won, becoming the first Democratic president since Buchanan.
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| show | attempt to regulate the railroads. It had only mild success but served as the first time government tried to regulate business for the good of society.
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| show | He was called "Young Tippecanoe" because of grandfather had also been a president. He was a Republican and was elected 23rd president in 1888.
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| show | In 1890 A federal law that committed the American government to opposing monopolies and trust, it prohibits contracts, combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade.
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| show | This was what some people called the Magna Carta of civil-service reform. It created a merit system of making appointments to government jobs on the basis of aptitude rather than who-you-know, or the spoils system.
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