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American Histroy
Chapter 5 Vocabulary
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History
11th Grade
09/20/2010

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Homestead Act
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gave free land to settlers in the Great Plains
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Little Big Horn
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battle known as Custer's last stand
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Wounded Knee
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last "battle" between Indians and US military
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Sooners
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People who went to Oklahoma too soon
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Monopolies
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business investors can buy stock in
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trusts
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combinations of corporations that often became monopolies
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social darwinism
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"survival of the fittest" in society and business
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Bessemer Process
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process of making stronger steel
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Haymarket Riot
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bomb explosion blamed on union members in Chicago
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Karl Marx
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started communism
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Civil service
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government jobs to qualify people
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tenements
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original apartments
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Thomas Nast
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famous political cartoonist
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Alexander G. Bell
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invented the telephone
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Wizard of Menio Park
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nickname of Thomas Edison
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suffragette
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leader in womens voting rights
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separate but equal
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phrase that came out of Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Lynching
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hanging someone through mob action
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