History: Chapter 18

Steam radiators

made larger apartment buildings possible

Page Act

restricted Chinese Immigration, especially woman

Chinese Exclusion Act

banned Chinese laborers from entering US for 10 yrs + denying citizenship

Vauderville

inexpensive variety shows with many types of entertainment

Coney island

amusement parks provided inexpensive entiertainement

Herbert Spencer

applied evolutionary ideas to society - Social Darwinism

Lester Frank Ward

opposed Social Darwinism

William “Boss” Tweed

NYC political boss who controlled Tammany Hall; used dishonest methods to reward supporters

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

President of Woman’s Suffrage Association; petitioned President Hayes(no response)

Rutherford B. Hayes

promoted clean gov and opposed corruption - Civil Service Reform - vetoed Bland - Allison Act

Civil Service Reform

rended/reduced Spoils system by giving gov jobs based on Merit

Bland-Allison Act

increased the amount of silver coins - Hayes vetoed it

Pendleton Act

created Civil Service Commission

Mugawamps

reform minded Rs who left party to support Cleveland bc they opposed corruption

Mulligan letters

Letters used to accuse James G. Blaine of corrupt dealings

Interstate Commerce Act

created Interstate Commerce Commission - first federal regulatory agency

Benjamin Harrison

Sherman Anti Trust Act, Sherman Silver Purchase Act, McKinley Tariff Act

Sherman Anti Trust Act

intended to prevent monopolies and trusts

“Crime of 73”

Congress stopped silver coinage

Granger laws

state laws regulating railroad and grain elevator rates

Munn v. Illinois

Supreme Court ruled states could regulate businesses involved in interstate commerce

Wabash v. Illinois

limited state regulation of interstate commerce - led to fed regulation

Woman’s/Ladies Alliances

better rural conditions, education, and woman’s suffrage

Philadelphia and Reading Railroad bankruptcy

helped trigger the Panic of 1893

Pers Cleavelan’s response to Panic of 1893

repealed Sherman Silver Purchase Act

“Cross of Gold Speech”

William Jennings Bryan - attacked gold standard and financial interests

Mark Hanna

William McKinley’s campaign manager who raised lots of money