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Ch17-19 Review
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History
11th Grade
11/08/2010

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Booker T. Washington
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the most influential spokesman for African Americans
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 Grant
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the Civil War elected President in 1868
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James J. Hill
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promoted and privately funded the Great Northern Railroad
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George Pullman
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invented sleeping car
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Sitting Bull
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Sioux medicine man
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Chief Joseph
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chief of Nez Perce, led tribe to Canadian border only to be captured
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Red Cloud
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Chief of the Sioux
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Geronimo
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led the Apaches
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 Calamity Jane
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scout for Custer
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Paul Bunyan
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 legendary figure born in Bangor,ME
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 Wovoka
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Indian Messiah
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Alexander Graham Bell
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invented telephone
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James Oliver
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invented chilled-iron plow
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Thomas Edison
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invented light bulb
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 George Washington Carver
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found over 300 uses for the peanut
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Joseph Glidden
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invented barbed wire
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Edwin L. Drake
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drilled first oil well in US
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Henry Bessemer
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invented new method of producing low cost steel
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J.P. Morgan
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founded US Steel Company
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What does "Laissez-Faire" mean?
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letting business do as it pleases
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Monopoly
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when business has no competition
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capitalism
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an economic system in which individuals are free to follow their economic pursuits as they see fit
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Protestant Work Ethic
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work as if you're working for God not for man

 Colossians 3:23

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Entrepreneur
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a person who manages and organizes a business undertaking
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Carpetbaggers
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northern politicians looking for opportunities in the South
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Poll Tax
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a tax to pay in order to vote
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Tenure of Office ACT
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the president cannot get rid of a civil officer appointed by Congress without approval from Congress
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13th Amendment
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abolished slavery
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14th Amendment
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extended citizenship to former slaves
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15th amendment
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gave blacks the right to vote
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Homestead Act
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stimulated western expansion by giving 160 acres of land to live on & improve
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Dawes Act
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broke up tribal lands, offered 160 acres & citizenship if Indians give up their way of life an adopted the American way of life
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Smith- Hughes Act
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federal funds to help high schools provide courses in agriculture
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Morrill Act
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30,000 acres of land granted to each state for each Sen/Rep to establish a state univeristy
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Birmingham
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the Pittsburgh of the South
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Battle of Little Big Horn
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Custer's Last Stand
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Wounded Knee
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last battle between Indians and Federal troops
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Colorado
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Centennial State
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Chisholm Trail
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favorite route of cowboys driving cattle north
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where the Central & Union Pacific met
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Promontory Point
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3 Factors of American Prosperity in the 19th century
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new inventions, natural resources, large labor supply, stimulant of the Civil War, cheap transportation, people of character, economic freedom
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