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The 18th president, and one of the most prominent presidentidental figures during the Gilded Era. Commonly referred to as a weak dismissive president, he was constantly entangled in multiple accounts of fraud, and mismanagement.
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The Gilded Age spanned across 30 years (1870-1900), a title coined by Mark Twain to describe how the Gilded Age was glittering and shining on the outside, but corrupt and amoral underneath.
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The Standard Oil Company and Trust was an oil company owned by Rockefeller and many of his trusted associates, they owned almost the entirety of the U.S. oil supply, including transportation, production, and marketing. It originally started in Cleveland, Ohio.
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In the region of Wounded Knee Creek, located in the southwestern part of South Dakota, troops from the United States Army were responsible for the tragic death of approximately 150-300 Lakota Indians. The massacre represented the highest point of the U.S. Army's efforts in the late 19th century to quell the resistance of the Plains Indians.
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Commonly referred to as the one of the first Great Depressions, the Panic of 1873 was a catastropic stock market crash, affecting everyone countrywide. Caused by Jay Cooke and Company, a banking firm in Philadelphia.
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While this doesn’t have much to do with the Gilded Age, and what went down, one of the most prominent, and important pieces of technology was created during this same era. Cool right?
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One of the worst American defeats at the time was also one of the best for the Cheyenne and Lakota tribes. A brutal victory that killed almost every single soldier that partook in the battle.
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The country's first significant rail strike and its first nationwide strike occurred during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. The strikes and the ensuing violence briefly shut down rail transportation and compelled the governors of ten separate states to call out 60,000 militia members.
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Assimilation, one of the words that sticks out when this school is brought up. Carlisle Indian Boarding School was created for the soul purpose of assimilating Native American kids into our culture, or as Pratt said, “Kill the Indian, save the man.” Even though the school only operated for 39 years, it’s made a huge impact on Native Americans now.
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This law barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States for ten years. For the first time, the federal government prohibited an ethnic labor group from entering the country on the grounds that it harmed the good order of specific neighborhoods.
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A nationwide union umbrella group established in favor of labor reform. Most members of the AFL were knowledgeable employees from various occupations and crafts.
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A catastrophic battle that erupted out between the workers and the professional Pinkerton security guards, sent out to protect the Carnegie Steel company after many workers went on strike. This ultimately killed 16 people and injured several more.
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Pullman, a railroad and town owner, found a loophole to success. By making your workers work minimum age, and making them pay you for basic needs, makes it impossible to leave. Most, if not all workers that worked with Pullman.