People's History - Exam 1
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- Yellow-Dog Contracts
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- Said "Not allowed to join union"
- Women weavers striking - Farmer's Alliances
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- Organized US farmers
- Core of Populist movement
- Nationalization
- Wanted sub-treasury
- Bulking - Eugene V. Debs
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- Founder of:
- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
- American Railway Union - Pullman Strike
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- 50,000 workers
- Wages not increased
- Eugene Debs - Boycott all Pullman cars
- 2,000 state troops break it - Pinkerton Army
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- Homestead strike
- Surrendered
- Rent-a-cops - Homestead Strike
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- Pittsburgh
- Carnegie got Frick to make strike by creating large inventories
- Pinkerton Army (surrendered)
- State Militia won after - Haymarket Square (Riot)
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- Wanted 8 hour day
- McCormick calls police
- Police die in explosion
- May Day - Samuel Gompers
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- Founded AFC
- Socialist - American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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- limited membership to workers and organizatonsof union workers
- Reped skilled workers - Knights of Labor
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- Grouped workers by inudstry, regardless of trade or skill
- Got 8 hour day
- Arbitrition rather than strikes
- Ended child labor - Bassemer Process
- - Fast way of producing iron
- Taylorism
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- Management being able to control every detail of production
- New auto industry - Federick W. Taylor
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- Analyzed every job in mill
- Made system for efficent labor
- Increased mechanization
- Book: Scientific Management - Thomas Edison
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- Inventor
- Promised Jersey politicians 1,000 for favorable legislation - Kelly Converter
- Steel Converter
- Monopoly
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- Standard Oil, US Steel, Pennsylvania Railroad
- Benefit from "welfare state"
- Made sure senators passed tarrifs - Refrigerated Cars
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- McCormick could transport meats
- (Or) Meats in general could be processed - Horatio Alger
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- Useful myth for control
- Said that if you worked hard enough, you would make it - Vertical Integration
- - Investing in mines, cole, railroads (all business in those industries)
- Horizontal Integration
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- Social Darwinism
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- Survival of fittest
- Carnegie & Elites justified wealth because they felt they were fit
- leads to a "national suffering" - Andrew Carnegie
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- Leading steel producer
- Wrote "Gospel of Wealth" - Gospel of Wealth
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- Carnegie's apology
- Encouraged people to give back thier wealth - Eminent Domain
- - Used to take farmer's land and give it to canal or railroad companies as subsidies
- Scabs
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- Workers of different minorities
- Subsitutes
- Worked cheaper
- For causing racial or ethnic conflict - Molly Maguires
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- Irish strikers
- Heavy on violence - League of Nations
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- Part of the Treaty of Versailes
- Part didn't want it because it made the constitution NOT supreme
- US did not join after WWI - Sedition Act
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- Illegal to mutter any language against war in Europe
- Socialst against war; thrown in jail
- Wobblies too - U-Boats
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- Germans invented
- Part of technology for WWI - Granger Movement
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- Farmers banding together
- Wanted state regulation
- Grain Silos, storage
- A cooperative local movement - Populists Party
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- People's party
- Scarred the government because they started winning seats at every level of gov
- James Weaver - Article X
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New multi lateral nations
- league could act as a last resort
- League of Nations - Woodwrow Wilson
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- President during WWI
- Proposed Treaty of Versailes
- Wanted to keep neutral in war - Sussex Pledge
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- Gets Germans to promise not to sink anymore ships
- Germans step back to protect civilian life
- Germans blown away (taken advantage of) - Treaty of Versailles
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- Treaty to tie US into League of Nations
- Rejected because it would subvert constitution - Sherman Act
- - Gov action to limit monopolies
- Hellen Keller
- Socialist
- Alfred Thayer Mahan
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- Knew that if US wanted empire, they had to control seas
- Proposed water way through continent - William Randolf Hurst
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- Inserted funny pages
- Yellow Kid
- Sends persn to Cuba to get pics - Joseph Pullitzer
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- Makes up war stories to sell papers
- Sensationalist media - Yellow Kid
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- Part of funny papers
- Poked fun at stuff going on in country - Yellow Journalism
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- Scandal mongering, jingoism
- Sensationalist
- Used by Pulitzer and Hearst - Margaret Sanger
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- Progressive
- Birth control advocate - Upton Sinclair
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- Wrote "The Jungle"
- Book caused publc uproar and got Meat Inspection Act - Meat Inspection Act
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- Meat companies asked Congress to pass this to quiet socialists
- Didn't really check meat - Carrie Nation
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- Attacked saloons with a hatched
- Against alcohol
- For Temperance Movement - Proclamation of Neutrality
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- Progressive language
- Woodwrow Wilson
- Treaty to keep US out of war
- chance to end imperalism
- "A Peace without victory"
- "A War To End All Wars"
- Moral High Ground - Temperance Movement
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- Against alcohol consumption
- Carrie Nation - William Taft
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Granted:
- Graduated income tax
- Senators elected by popular vote - Amendment 16
- Graduated income tax
- Amendment 17
- Senators elected by popular vote
- Amendment 18
- Prohibition
- Amendment 19
- Gurantees right for women to vote
- Amendment 20
- - Starting and ending terms for President
- Amendment 21
- - Ended Prohibition
- American Luberty League
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- Defend and uphold constitution
- Foster the right to work, earn, save, and acquire property - American Protective League
- - Federal police and bereau of investigation in support of the anti German empire and against anti-war citizens
- War Guilt Clause
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- Clause in Treaty of Versalies
- Said Germany had to take full responsiblity for starting WWI - Triple Alliance
- - Treaty for Germany, Austria-Hungry, and Italy to support one another in war
- Triple Entente
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- Britian, France, Russia
- Opposed central powers during WWI - Westinghouse Airbrakes
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- Got rid of break man
- Theme of techonology - 16 to 1
- 16 ounces of gold to 1 silver
- Terence Powderly
- Leader of Knights of Labor
- DeLome Letter
- Letter inted to be sent to Spanish, intercepted by media -- criticized McKinley
- Christopher Sholes
- Invented typewriter
- WCTU
- Christian Temperence union - prohibition
- Settlement Movement
- Movement to improve conditions in society-- to eliminate poverty -- Jane Adams
- L Frank Baum
- Writer of The Wizard of Oz
- Coxey's Army
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- Protest march to Washington
- Coxey arrested for walking on grass - Progressivism
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- Moderate change
- lip service to issues
- - Northern Securities
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- Railroad conglomerate
- Vicitm of Roosevelt's trustbusting - Anthracite Coal Strike
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- Long coal strike
- Roosevelt attempting to mediate with the Square Deal - Federal Reserve Act
- created the Federal Reserve System which was the central bank for America
- Pure Food and Drug Act
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Federal inspection of food
- Companies pushed for it - Lusitiana
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Germans torpedoed it
- Provoked protest from Americans - Teller Amendment
- joint resolution that led to the Spanish-American war
- William Prager
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US-German
- Applied to army, laughed out