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Glided Age
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The name of the period 1877-1900 that sugggested that the amazing achievements of the period were like a thin gold layer that covered many unresolved social problems
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Tenements
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Multiple family dwellings of 4-6 stories that housed dozens of poor city dweller families.
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Political Machine
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Powerful and Political organization that mobilized large working class blocs and immigrant voters. Often engaged in illegal and corrupt activity.
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Settlement house
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Institution established in the citites in the 1880s that was dedicated in helping the poor by providing a wide range of help including social and educational services.
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City Beautiful Movement
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A movement that begun in the 1880s that advocated comprehensive planning and grand redesign of Urban space. This was used to eliminated pollution and overcrowding.
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New Woman
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A term used to describe young women in the late 1890s, early 1900s that reflected there uprising levels on education, econimic independence and social + political activism.
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People's Organization
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A 3rd party effort launched in the 1890s by a group of farmer organizations, reformers and labor unions dedicated in overthrowing corporate power and increasing the voice of the masses in politics
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Farmer's Alliance
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An organization in the 1870s-1880s dedicated to help farmers struggling withe rise of costs and the falling of crop prices by advocating farmer cooperatives and laws regulating banks and railroads
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Coxey's Army
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A march protest from Ohio to Washington Dc led by jacob coxey publizicing that the federal government alleviate the sufferings left behind by the panic of 1893
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Company town
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A town built by corporations, rented by there employess that reflect both the corporations desire to help their workers and the control them
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Pullman Strike
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A bitter strike on May 11, 1894 at the Pullman palace car company that soon spread nationwide paralyzing the railroad system,
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Federal Reserve
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The act of creating a federally runned federal reserve to serve as a "banker's bank"
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Federal Reserve
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The act of creating a federally runned federal reserve to serve as a "banker's bank"
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Clayton- AntiTrust Act
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The act of prohibiting interlocking company directories and exempted trade unions from prosecution.
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Scientific Management
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The effort to use scientific knowledge to secure maximum output and profit.
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