Presidentss
In the election of 1877, this individual tried to eliminate a corrupt system in government hiring but was unsuccessful.
Rutherford B. Hayes
This title implies that these men were the personification of greed and callousness.
Robber Barons
Congress expanded its power to regulate business with the passage of which Act, in 1890?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act. This made monopolizing illegal.
Many immigrants lived in this type of housing.
The 1890 census showed that for the first time, most Americans were in what kind of jobs?
Non-agricultural occupations. Working in the cities in textile industries.
The election of 1877 was notorious because it caused a clash between?
Division between the Republican Party.
This individual was known as the "Commodore" because he started off with a ferry service.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Which Act established a merit-based system for selecting, hiring and managing government employees?
Pendleton Act
Nativism
The riot in Chicago protesting long work hours.
Haymarket Riot
Half-Breeds and the Stalwarts. James Garfield was the half-breed and Chester Arthur a Stalwart because Vice President.
Captains of Industry fell into two categories.
Market entrepreneurs and political entrepreneurs
This was a political practice where the winning party rewarded its supporters, friends and campaign donors with government jobs.
Spoils System.
Samuel Gompers was the leader of which Union?
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Which industries provided the most jobs?
Manufacturing and service industries.
Chester Arthur is known for reforming?
Civil Service System.
This method allowed a captain of industry to control every aspect of production.
Vertical Integration
This Act established that railroad rates must be published, and be "reasonable and just."
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Immigrants were primarily coming from which areas?
Southern and Eastern Europe.
Which strike prompted the Federal government to get involved?
Pullman Strike
The election of 1884 was all about mudslinging. Who were the candidates?
Republicans chose James Blaine; and the Democrats nominated Grover Cleveland.
Causes of the Industiral Revolution
Population Increase, innovative spirit, sympathetic government and new sources of power.
Four problems dominated American politics from the mid 1870s to the end of the century.
Government corruption, civil service reform, change in the tarriffs and regulating trusts.
Opposition to immigration grew because:
Took jobs away from Americans, lowered the nations standard of living, increased diversity of religion and brought radicals and revolutionaries.
What is the ruling in Munn v. Illinois?
States can use its police powers to regulate business that was public in nature (serviced the public) even though its privately owned.