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Chapter 5 Shelby:
- Farmers Alliance
- Groups of people that sypathized with farmers.
-Helped educate farmers
-250,000 African Americans belong the colored farmers.
-Gold was becoming scared people panikced and traded all thier papaer money for gold.
-Gold bus: were bankers and bussiness men of the Northeast (republicans)
-would cause less money to be in circulation
-deflations, prices of everything fall. value of money increase and fewer poeple have money. Because rich people wanted the best of everything so if the the money that they have is worth alot more.
-Silverites: Farmers and Labarors.
-wanted more money in circulatons
-Inflation. Price of everything goes up value of money in circulation decrease more people have money, curcutiolatoin decrease more people have money.
End of Populism
-1896 Election changed when Mckinley Won the election
The end
Ch. 6.1:
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?
A wealth in natutural resources
goverment support of business
a growing urbon population
cheap lavor and markets for new products.
Laissez fairre- means let alone in french goverment policy that they are going to leave bussiness alone for number 2
-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives?
Ch. 6.2:
-What impact did railroads have on the US?
-Why were many people upset with the railroads?
-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?
Ch. 6.3:
-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie.
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller.
-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?
-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).
-How did the government try to regulate business?
-What are labor unions and what is their purpose?
Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.
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