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Concentration Review 2/23/04
These are the matchups for the concentration game
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02/23/2004

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Church of Jesus Christ or Christian Science
Definition
The religion founded by Mary Baker Eddy
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J.P. Morgan
Definition
the banker who launched U.S. steel
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Homesteading
Definition
the practice of the U.S. government to give away public land to western settlers.
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Grover Cleveland
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the only democrat elected president during this time period
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Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
Definition
two names that have come to symbolize political corruption
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The Comstock Law
Definition
the federal law that was used to confiscate pronography and drugs used to induce(cause) abortions
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Thomas Nast
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The Cartoonist who gave the republican and democratic their animal symbols
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a pool
Definition
the earlist form of a business combination and an agreement to divide business in a given area and share the profits
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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the first federal law passed to break up trusts in 1890
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The Grange
Definition
the organization of farmers started to fight the powers of the railroads
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Frederick Jackson Turner
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the author of the frontier theory to explain American development
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Samuel Gompers
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Leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Social Darwinism
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Millionaires are the products of natural selection are an example of this philosophy
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Booker T. Washington
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He oversaw or operated the Tuskeegee institute
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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one of the founders of the NAACP
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Horizontal Integration
Definition
the practice of joining forces with competitors to monopolize a market
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the Knights of Labor
Definition
The labor union that fought for an 8 hour workday and accepted women workers as equals
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
Definition
it decreed the doctrine "seperate but equal"
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