american history exam 3

Vote turnout

Vote like your life depends on it

Peak voting was when

1856-1896

Alfred Packer

The Colorado cannibal

What Judge M. B. Gerry said to Packer

Stand up yah voracious man-eatin' ***********

and receive yir sintince. When yah came to

Hinsdale County, there was siven Dimmycrats,

But you, yah et five of 'em, ****** yah. I

sintince yah t' be hanged by th' neck ontil yer

dead, dead, dead, as a warnin' ag'in reducin' th'

Dimmycratic populayshun of this county.

Packer, you Republican cannibal, I would

sintince ya ta hell but the statutes forbid it.

Vote the way you shot!

“The lost cause” revived

“Waving the bloody shirt”

“Rum, Romanism, and rebellion”

Party Patronage “spoils system”

Urban machines “boss tweed” Tammany Hall (D)

Federal Office Seeking “route star scandal” (R)

1880 republican convention

Main republican divide

Stalwarts- patronage and spoil system

Half-breeds- reform and civil service

on the 34th ballot, on July 8th, 1880, Garfield

leapt to his feet in protest.

“No man has a right without the consent of the person voted for, to announce that person’s name and vote for him in this convention. Such consent I have not given -”

The convention chairman banged down his gavel, cutting Garfield off mid-sentence.

“The gentleman from Ohio,” he ordered, “will

resume his seat.” The stampede for Garfield was on

James A. Garfield of Ohio

A student, reformation preacher, union general,, congressmen, family man, church elder

Garfield quote

I suppose I am morbidly sensitive about any reference to my own achievements… I so much despise a man who blows his own horn,

that I go to the other extreme. I know you are rejoiced at my nomination. To me there is a streak of sadness in it that I suppose no one else can understand….”

Chester Arthur of New York

Lawyer, union general, (quartermaster), businessman (government contracts) conkling ,a hind loyalist fired by Pres. Hayes, U. S. Senator, Stakwart

James Garfield beats

“The solid south’

Charles Guiteau

Unfinished business of civil service reform

“Saving the republic”

Guiteau shoots Garfield

Garfield’s quote after being shot

“My God! What is this?”

Garfield is dying

The good wife, the good doctors, the good scientist, the good man, the good death

Guiteau quote

I saved my party and my land, Glory hallelujah!

But they have murdered me for it, And that is the reason I am going to the Lordy, Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah!

I am going to the Lordy!

“Real time” news

Drama, pathos, and morbid curiosity

Pres. Chester A. Arthur

Pendleton Act (1883)

A civil service act

Quote from Pres. Arthur

since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the president of the united states is another

“Agency”

Choose you this day who you will serve

Another Garfield quote

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves

MUGWUMPS (moral theory of history)

Moralists vs. Pragmatist acting American

The United States by 1900

From “an” industrial power to “the” industrial power

Age of invention

iron and steel

Henry Bessemer

Technology thesis

Higher tolerance for change and____

Risk

New! And improved

Drakes folly

Petroleum drilling

Kerosene used for

Light and heat

Edwin “Colonel” drake

Patents and corporations

Rewarding ideas and second chances

US patent office 1790-1860

36,000

US Patent office 1860-1890

400,000

Business incorporation benefit that’s the most important

Personal liability protection

Professional inventors: research and development

Pneumatic braking

Faster requires stopping

George Westinghouse

Thomas A Edison

Phonograph-improved light bulb, kinescope, movie camera, diode, microphone, quad telegraph, mimeograph

Lewis H Latimer

Tech changes but _____ _____ not so much

Human nature

Kinetoscope

Meat processing

Swift and armour companies

Philip Danforth Armour

Gustavus Swift

Muscular society

“Growth potential”

Gail Bordon Tinned Foods

Year round supply- all products, better and varied nutrition, decline in food borne disease

Great Mill Disaster 1878

Culture (cult) of domesticity (true womanhood)

American Home Economics Association 1908

Ellen Swallow Richards

Seven Sisters (plus Cornell)

Urban Industrial Benefits

Robber baron or…

“Captains of industry”

Characteristics of robber barons

Work driven, efficiency obsessed, visionary (situational awareness), eye for talent, ruthless

Cornelius “commodore” Vanderbilt

Andrew Carnegie

Scottish immigrant (1835-1919)

Carnegie quote

Man must have no idol and the amassing of wealth is one of the worst species of idolatry! No idol is more debasing than the worship of money!

Carnegie steel company

65% control of U. S. Steel industry

Vertical integration

Economy of scale, capitalization assets, brand, internal efficiency

Henry Clay Frick

Psychological motivationalist or ruthless psychopath

Johnstown flood- 1889

Clara Barton

ARC- founded 1881

John Pierpont Morgan

Finance robber barron

Deal of the century

Carnegie- Charles Schwab, and J.P. Morgan, selling of his share of the steel industry

U.S. steel

$1.4 Billion capitalization

67% control of market

Boards of directors

Henry Flagler

Florida railroad and hotel baron, standard oil founder to Florida riviera

Mary Lily Flagler (34)

vertical and horizontal integration

Standard oil

John D Rockefeller

70% Global production, 95% domestic market

Price reduced 75% for a gallon and sales increased ten-fold

What if there comes a pharaoh who knows not _____?

Joseph

Vanderbilt University contested estate

$105 million (%150 billion in ‘07)

“Gilded age” extravagance

Biltmore NC- 178,000 sqft

BIG

“Trusts” - cartels

Sherman Anti-trust act (1890)