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begun by Uriah Stephens as a secret Society, the Knights admitted anyone fighting for fair wages, including women and African-Americans. The Knights were blamed for the Haymarket Square Riot and bombing that left both deaths and injuries behind.
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The first transportation system to connect the East and West Coasts.
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Jim Fisk and Jay Gould bought large amounts of gold in order to force the U.S. Treasury to sell gold from the reserves to fight the high cost of gold.
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George Westinghouse invented the air brake in 1869 which revolutionized railway travel. The air brake made rail travel much safer by improving train stopping time and ability.
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Oil Tycoon John D. Rockefeller established the first branch of Standard Oil Company in Ohio in 1870. (DAY AND MONTH NOT ACCURATE)
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Prohibits the denial of suffrage based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Banking Tycoon J. Pierpont Morgan partnered with banker Anthony J. Drexel to form Drexel, Morgan & Co. The company was renamed J.P. Morgan & Co in 1895 when it supplied the U.S Government with $62 million to restore the treasury.
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Union Pacific Railroad insiders formed the Credit Mibilier construction company in order to hire themselves at inflated prices.Government officials paid to stay quiet. (DAY AND MONTH NOT ACCURATE)
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Famous painting by "American Renaissance" artist Winslow Homer. (DAY AND MONTH NOT ACCURATE)
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Repealed the part of the 14th amendment that forbade former Confederates from holding public office.
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Liberal Republican Party backed Horace Greeley who lost to Ulysses S. Grant in the Election of 1872. Liberal Republicans got congress to pass the Amnesty Act of 1872.
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Ulysses S. Grant won re-election.
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The men elected President between 1872 and 1884 are often called the Forgettable Presidents due to the lack of any noteworthy accomplishments or scandals. This includes Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, and Chester Arthur.
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Published in "Gilded Age: A Tale of Today". (DAY AND MONTH NOT ACCURATE)
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Overspeculation of land led to too many people taking out loans that they could not pay back. (DAY AND MONTH NOT ACCURATE)
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Another "American Renaissance" artist. (DAY AND MONTH NOT ACCURATE)
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Required the government to withdraw greenbacks and redeem paper currency in gold at face value.
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Ended Reconstruction: removed military from South, appointed a Democrat to Cabinet, and appointed federal money to railroad construction in Mississippi.
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Democrat Samuel J. Tilden beat Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Settled Presidential election of 1876. Rutherford B. Hayes became President and federal troops left the South.
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A strike of railroad workers in Pennsylvania was put down with force by federal troops. This strike sparked nationwide strikes known as the Great Upheaval.
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Required federal government to purchase and coin more silver which increased inflation.
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Greenbacks could be redeemed for gold at face value. (DAY AND MONTH NOT ACCURATE)
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Republican James A. Garfield won the election, but was shot soon after by stalwart Charles A. Guiteau, leaving Vice President Chester A. Arthur to assume the Presidency.
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Social Darwinist William Graham Sumner wrote his essay "Sociology" to focus on the "survival of the fittest" concept, and the relationship between sociology and biology.
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President Chester Arthur refused to move into the White House until it was redecorated by glassmaker and interior designer Louis Comfort Tiffany. (DAY AND MONTH NOT ACCURATE)
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Banned Chinese immigration to United States.
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Created a Civil Servic Comission stating that federal employees could not be required to contribute to campaign funds or be fired for political reasons.
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Born Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain published much of his work during the Gilded Age. (DAY AND MONTH NOT ACCURATE)
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Republican James G. Blaine lost to Democrat Grover Cleveland.
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Glassmaker and interior designer Louis Comfort Tiffany founded Tiffany Glass Company to make a name for himself.
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Largest union grouping ever in America, founded with hopes of working with the Knights of Labor to provide fair wages for Americans. (DAY NOT ACCURATE)
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During a peaceful strike in Haymarket Square Chicago, an unknown individual threw a stick of dynamite at police officers attempting to break up the strike. At least 7 officers and 4 civilians were killed or wounded.
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Estasblished to regulate the railroad industry by requiring that all railroad rates be "reasonable and just" but did not give the government the power to break up the monopolies.
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Democrat Grover Cleveland lost thr re-election to Republican Benjamin Harrison.
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U.S. Treasury bought 4.5 million ounces of silver to pay those who mined it. Doubled amount of Silver that could be purchased under the Bland-Allison Law of 1878.
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raised productive tariff levels by 50%.
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In order to give back to his community, steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie founded institutions like Carnegie Hall and Carnegie-Mellon University with the millions he made from the steel industry. (DAY NOT ACCURATE)
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Steel Tycoon, Andrew Carnegie began the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892 with the help of Henry Clay Frick. By using the process of vertical integration, Carnegie bought both railroads and steel mines to create a monopoly on the versatile metal. (DAY AND MONTH NOT ACCURATE)
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Strike at Carnegie Steel COmpany. 7 dead, one of the most violent strikes in American history.
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Grover Cleveland won a second term beating both the Republican and Populist party candidates.
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Interior designer Candace Wheeler designed the Women's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, IL. (DAY AND MONTH NOT ACCURATE).
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Financial panic that included banks closing, businesses and manufacturers closing, and declines in the Stock Market. Finally Allieviated in November, 1893. (DAY NOT ACCURATE)
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Held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus landing in the New World.
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Socialist Eugene V. Debs helped found the ARU in 1893 which was later responsible for the Pullman Strike, the largest strike in American History.
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After the Pullman Company fired 5000 workers in response to the workers' refusal to accept a pay cut, Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs and the American Railway Union organized the Pullman Strike, the largest strike in American History.
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Restricted U.S. sugar imports which led to an economic downturn in Cuba. Also an income tax.
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Supreme Court ruled that income taxes imposed by Income Tax Act of 1894 were direct taxes and were unconstitutional.
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Another "American Renaissance" writer who wrote about the horrors of the Civil War.
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Legalized segregation as long as the facilities were "separate but equal".
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Republican William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennengs Bryan.
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"The American Pageant 12e Chapter 23 Politics in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896". Quizlet. 2013. Web. 27 May 2013. "Chapter 23 - Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896". CourseNotes. 2013. Web. 27 May 2013. U.S. History. 2008. Web. 27 May 2013. Photos retrieved from Wikimedia Commons.