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AMH 2020 Exam #1 Gilded Ageto make something shiny/gold looking - correct answer ✔✔Gilding
When was the rise of modern America? - correct answer ✔✔gilded age (time of incredible change)
What are the 2 ways to cope with progress? - correct answer ✔✔acceptance and embrace (fighting)
Post CW, who was ill-equipped and had a laissez-faire approach? - correct answer ✔✔the government
How did the government react after the CW? - correct answer ✔✔passively
The "forgettable presidents" known for what? - correct answer ✔✔- didn't go into office w/o agendas
- people are nostalgic for founding fathers
- founding fathers are almost like deities
How did the political parties stand on issues? - correct answer ✔✔they didn't really know
What are known as trusts? - correct answer ✔✔Monopolies
This man controlled 90% of oil capabilities and had no competition because he took them out. - correct
answer ✔✔John D. Rockefeller
There were conflicts between what for companies? - correct answer ✔✔labor and management
How were workers viewed? - correct answer ✔✔as expendable commodities
,What did workers do when they weren't treated fairly? - correct answer ✔✔formed unions and
demanded better wages, hours, and security and as a result of forming unions, people lost their lives and
jobs
There was a decline in what kind of economy? - correct answer ✔✔agrarian/farming
What is a subsistence farmer? - correct answer ✔✔one that grows what they need to survive and if
possible grow extra for a profit
Who does the shift of respect lean towards? - correct answer ✔✔businessmen (used to be farmers)
Who was immigrating into the USA? - correct answer ✔✔eastern and southern europeans
What lead to economic downturns? - correct answer ✔✔defects in financial system
What happened in the 1869 election? - correct answer ✔✔Grant won presidency
List facts about Ulysses S. Grant - correct answer ✔✔- helped defeat south in CW and had no previous
political experience
- isn't strong enough to restore power to presidency
- delegated powers to his subordinates
- his administration had a lot of scandals even though he didn't take part in them
- people abused their powers
- republican
During what time period was the balance of power in the legislative, judicial, and executive branches
unbalanced? - correct answer ✔✔Reconstruction
What moved the nation? - correct answer ✔✔Railroads
, Where did railroads first link cities? - correct answer ✔✔eastern US and then moved in the interior
(Baltimore to Cincinnati)
In the 1850s, the north and south couldn't agree on anything, except what? - correct answer ✔✔the
transcontinental railroad but couldn't agree on where to put it
What happens in 1860? - correct answer ✔✔Lincoln becomes president causing the south to secede
What is the Union Pacific-Omaha? - correct answer ✔✔when the railroad was built west and the Italians
and Irish did all the dirty work
What is the Central Pacific-Sacramento? - correct answer ✔✔when the railroad was built east
- had a much more difficult time because of the mountains
What happened on May 10th, 1869 at Promontony Point, UT? - correct answer ✔✔the rail lines meet
and now allows the country to travel coast to coast
What kind of approach did the government take to how the RR would be paid? - correct answer
✔✔hands-off/laissez-faire
What kind of economy did the RR move from? - correct answer ✔✔local to national
What happened when banks were hesitant to give loans to build the RR? - correct answer
✔✔government steps in with subsidies of land and money
What ends up being one of the biggest scandals of the RR? - correct answer ✔✔about 10 miles on either
side of the tracks on alternating sides giving away land
Describe the Credit Mobilier Scandal. - correct answer ✔✔- RR construction company was formed by
men who worked for the Union Pacific
- UP wins contract
- avg cost of 1 mile of RR was 30k, but CM charged gov 50k
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