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The scandal involving bribes to congress from railroads
Credit Mobilier
the economic slavery in the South
Sharecropping
the Pendleton Act was a part of an examination system to provide what reforms and end what practice
civil service/patronage
the govt. gave land and money to railroads as part of
subsidies
when wealthy people apply Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to justify their wealth
social darwinism
The political machine found in NYC that was a good example of Politics during the Gilded Age
Tweed Ring
two ways that southern govt.'s stripped voting rights from freedmen
literacy test/poll taxes
What replaced agriculture as the main US economic activities at the end of the Civil War
Manufacturing
as a result of the Wabash St Louis, and Pacific RR Act was the formation of the ________ ______ Act to regulate trade from state to state
Interstate Commerce Act
the ideology that the wealthy should do right with their money and help the needy
The Compromise of 1877 ended
Radical reconstruction
the exemption from whites to laws limiting suffrage
grandfather clause
the 1st large companies were
railroads
The interstate commerce Act was designed to reduce the ____ _____ attitude of the govt. staying out of the economy.
Laizze Faire
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was not effective in battling large corporations because
of corruption and congresses lack of willingness to take on big business
The segregation laws designed to segregate and discriminate against AA
Jim Crow
The group that was targeted by en exclusion act designed to stop their immigration
Chinese
the downside to railroad consolidation
monopolies and price fixing
The business practice that a business buys up all the competition and forms a monopoly.
horizontal
The laborers had what issues
long hours, low pay, horrible conditions
Plessy v Ferguson brought what doctrine
Separate but equal
Why were immigrants on the west coast denied entry into the US
lower wages/job competition
the railroad that connected the east and west
transcontinental
when a business controls all the businesses involved in the manufacturing process.
vertical integration
Name two strikes unions used
Railroad Strike 1877/Homestead Strike 1892