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02/02/2012

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Did the life expectancy go up or down during the industrial Revolution?
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It Increased
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The act that granted land to set aside to build universtities
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The Morrill Act
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Person who believed in the Talented Tenth
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W.E.B Dubois
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What was the Talented Tenth
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the top 10% of black society would lead them into equality and rights
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Term when Rail Road owners divided shared profits
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Railroad Pools
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only transcontinental railroad built without government aid
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Great Northern Railroad
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where J.P. Morgan put other people in charge as board of directors
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Interlocking directory
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1st billion dollar copporation in America
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U.S. Steel Corporation
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1st major product of oil industry
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Kerosene
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What was in the south that was attractive to the north to moving factories there?
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Cheap labor
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What is a gibson girl
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A magazine ad that showed the power of women, independent, athletic, strong
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the term where a factory only hires people from a union
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closed shop
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The one group the knights of labor barred from their union
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Chineese
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The union group that still is around today and welcomed lots of people into their group
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American federation of labor
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1st major attempt by the federal government to regulate business
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Interstate commerce act
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which union group fell apart after the depression
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National labor union
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illegal to ship birthcontrol through the mail
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Comstock Law
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What was the spread of letters in Europe that America was the land of oppurtunity
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America Fever
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believed in black political and physical rights wanted equality eventually
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Booker T. Washington
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campaign for realism, editor of Altlantic Monthly, Biography of Lincoln
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William Dean Howells
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treats women powerful, contrast between Europe and America
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Henry James
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Sister Carrie about a poor working girl , a new "social novelist"
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Theodore Dreiser
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brought out successive - and purfied- revisions of his hardy prennial, the assassination of lincoln inspired him, (poems)
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Walt Whitman
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volumes of juvenile fiction, implanted morality and the conviction that there is always room at the top
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Horatio Alger
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typrified a new breed of American authors in revolt against the elegant refinements of the old New England school of writing.
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Mark Twain
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wrote about the seamy underside of life in urban, industrial America
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Stephen Crane
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wrote about poverty , was rich in idealism
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Henry George
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held that the truth of an idea was to be tested all above, by its practical consequences.
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pragmatism
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helped popularize steel rail , offered superior railway service at low price
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Carnegie's Tatic, combining into one organization all phases of manufacturing from mining to marketing
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Vertical integration
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meant allying with competitors to monopolize a given market; rockefeller's tatic
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Horizontal integration
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dominated oil industry
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John D. Rockefeller
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forbade combinations in restraint of trade without any distinction between good trusts and bad trusts
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Sherman's Anti Trust Act
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where owners could close their doors against rebelious workers
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lockout
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solemn agreements not to join a labor union
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yellow dog contracts
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winner and founder of the Hull House
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Jane Addams
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house for new immigrants
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Hull House
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belief of science faith and forgivemess
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Dwight L. Moody
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Came from western europe, protestant or catholic,
fit easily in american society
some experience with democracy
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Old Immigration
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came from southern eastern europe, othodox
saw industrial jobs rather then farming
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New Immigration
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Change in news papers with
Bigger headlines
Crime, scandal, sports cartoons
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Yellow Journalsim
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reason for spanish american war for telling lies in the newspaper about war in cuba
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William Randolph Hearst
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production by machines, factories, technology improvements, expanding markets, nationwide transportation network, increased capital accumulation, increase in size of cities
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Reasons of Industrainism
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extreme realsim, went beyond what you should talk about
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naturalism
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