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the city
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attracted people from countryside because it offered conveniences, entertainment, and cultural experience
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immigrant population in chicago and NYC in 1890
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87% in chicago, 80% in new york
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jewish culture
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place a high value on education
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irish
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slowest rate of economic advancement
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gentleman's agreement
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excluded immigrants - nativist
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immigrants welcome
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when they provide labor and work efficiently
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immigrants not welcome
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when they begin to increase in number and take over jobs
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jacob riis
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wrote, How the Other Half Lives - concerned with tenement life - favored getting rid of slum dewllings with out replacing the housing
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strains of urban life
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fires and disease
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theodore dreiser
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wrote Sister Carrie - about the plight of single women who moved to the city and didn't have support - wrote An American Tragedy
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tammany hall
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machine politics - andrew carnegie - william tweed was the boss
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partonage
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being rewarded with jobs in the city government or in such city agencies as the police, with jobs building or operating the transit systems, and with opportunities to rise in the political organization itself
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sears roebuck
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large market for mail-order goods by giving out a huge catalog every year
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abner doubleday
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invented baseball
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dr james naismith
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canadian working as an athletic director for a local college
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john sullivan
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heavy-weight champion of the world in 1882
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george cohan
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creator of musical comedies
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al jolson
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most famous minstrel singer
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d.w. griffith
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silent epics - carried motion pictures into new era
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louisa may alcott
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wrote little women
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mark twain
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wrote huck finn and tom sawyer
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stephen crane
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wrote red badge of courage
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frank norris
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published the Octapus
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upton sinclair
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wrote The Jungle
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winslow homer
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paintings of new england maritime like and other native subjects
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james whistler
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one of first western artists to appreciate japanese color prints and he introduced oriental concepts
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social darwinism
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human species had evolved from earlier forms of life through natural selection
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frederick jackson turner and charles beard
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argued that economic factors had beent he governing force rather that spiritual ideas
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john dewey
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leww emphasis on the learning of traditional knowledge, more emphasis on a flexible, democratic approach to schooling
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public high schools in US in 1860 and 1914
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100 in 1860, 12000 in 1914
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hampton institute
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black college
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carlisle school
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indian industrial school
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morrill land grant
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benefited colleges and universities
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first women's college
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mount holyoke
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rep. and dem. states at the end of reconstruction
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16 rep., 14 dem.
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voter percent in 1860 and 1900
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78% of eligible voters
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republicans
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nativist and anti-alcohol
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rutherford hayes
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His Fraudulency
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stalwarts
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democratic
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halfbreeds
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republican
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darkhouse president in 1880 and VP
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garfield and arthur
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garfield
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assassinated because of victimization by the spoils system
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pendleton act
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identified a limited number of federal jobs to be filled by competitive written exams rather than patronage
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sherman anti-trust act
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used most against business combinations and labor unions
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interstate commerce act
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banned discrimination in rates between long and short hauls
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wabash case
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supreme court ruled one of the G ranger laws in illinois unconstitutional
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grange movement
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movement of social and self helo association due to the isolation of rural life
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depression of 1873
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increased grange membership
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marketing cooperatives
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allowed hatred of middleman by farmers
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cooperative political action
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used by farmers against railroad, bank, and warehouse monopolies
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montgomery ward and company
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mail order business established to meet the needs of the grangers
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farmers alliance
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lambasted concentration of power in great corporations and financial institutions and promoted cooperations
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women in the farmers alliance
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prominant role - voting, offices, lectures
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ocala demands
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a party platform for a 3rd party
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omaha 1892
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people's party formed here
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electoral votes for weaver in 1892
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22
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ocala demands
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govenment warehouses, low rate interests, abolition of national banks, government ownership of railroads, telephones, and telegraphs, system of government operated postal savings bank, graduated income tax, and the inflation of the currency
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1837, 1893, and 1929
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economic downfall
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reading railroad and national cordage company
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money became tight and brought everything down with it
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health of US in 1890s
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railroads
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unemployed work force
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20%
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jacob coxey
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demanded the creation of jobs for the unemployed and inflation of currency in 1894
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specie
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precious metal
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ratio of silver to gold in 1870
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16:1
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free silver
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wanted by silver mine owners and farmers
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cross of gold speech
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made by bryan
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bryan
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supported by populist party
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mckinley
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rep. candidate
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progressives
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wanted to help women, children, industrial workers, and immigrants and to african americans somewhat - didnt want social darwinism
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muckrackers
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named by t. roosevelt - exposed scandal, corruption, and injustice
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ida tarbell
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wrote about the standard oil trust
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lincoln steffens
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wrote The Shame of Cities where he exposed the corruption of the machine government and boss rule
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salvation army
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carried work of social gospel
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Hull house
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founded by jane addams - worked closely with the university of chicago
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american medical association
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formed in 1901
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johns hopkins
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located in baltimore
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leading professions for women
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physicians, lawyers, engineers, scientists, and corporate managers
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divorces
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1 out of 21 marriages were in 1880, 1 out of 9 were in 1916
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club movement
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afforded women space for themselves without openly challenging the male-dominant order
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robert la follette
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most celebrated state level reformer
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WEB Du Bois
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more expanisve views than booker t washington
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