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Who reorganized several major railroads and became a powerful railroad magnate?
JP Morgan
Which party supported business and industry with hard money policies and tariffs?
The Republican Party
Who ran in the 1896 election?
William McKinley (R) and William Jennings Bryan (D)
What did the statue of liberty represent?
a sign of welcome, promising opportunity and freedom from oppression for new immigrants.
Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, became the capital of the nation's _________ industry
What is the tobacco industry
Acquired the New York and Harlem Railroad in 1862-1863
Vanderbilt
Which party opposed tariffs and adopted the free silver platform?
The Democrat party
How did This election affect Urban dominance?
this election was a victory for big businesses, Urban centers, conservative economics and moderate, middle-class values
What are push and pull factors?
Pushes are negative factors of why people leave their countries and pull factors are positive aspects of the country they are going to.
Southern railroad companies rapidly converted to the standard gauge rails used in the North and West, so the South was integrated into the National ____ Network
What is the National Rail Network
Who founded the Standard Oil Company
Rockefeller
Which party was under the interest of framers and endorsed silver coinage to settle debts?
The peoples (populist) party
what resulted in the defeat of William Bryan?
this initiated the era of republican dominance
Who were the "old immigrants"?
The British Isles, Germany and Scandinavia.
To attract businesses, local governments offered tax exemptions to investors and the promise of ______- ______ labor
What is low-wage labor
Who was the 21st president of the United States who served during the Gilded Age?
Grover Cleveland
what year did the populist party emerge?
1890s
fill in the blank.... "the populist party declined after 1896 and soon ceased to be a _____________ "
national party
who were the "new immigrants"
Italians, Greeks, Croats, Slovaks, Poles and Russians
Henry Grady, the editor of the _______ _________, spread the gospel of the "New South"
What is the Atlanta Constitution
Facilitated the creation of the national forest reserves through an amendment to the Land Revision Act of 1891
Benjamin Harrison
Voters turned up at a _________ rate during the gilded age than any other time in history. It was the _____ of political participation
higher, golden age
why was the election of 1896 so important?
this election was the most emotional e;section in history. This election was still reflecting on the civil war and the nation still had to deal with the issues from the previous 20 years.
What was the first immigration law put into place?
Chinese exclusion act
Birmingham, Alabama, developed into one of the nation's leading ________ producers
What is steel