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The New American Nation 1865-1900
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10th Grade
10/06/2014
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Gunfight at the OK Corral
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Most famous & was a 30-second gunfight
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Little Big Horn
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Custer's Last Stand, Sitting Bull, Sioux Victory
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Billy The Kid
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William Bonney
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Jessee James
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Train Robber
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Judge Parker
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Hanging Judge
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Homestead Act
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free land
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Comstock Lode
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Silver Strike
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Comstock Lode
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Silver Strike
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Exodusters
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Af. Americans that migrated west
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Bessemer Process
 Definition
Process of mass-production of steel
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Gold Standard
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Currency is fixed
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National Grange
 Definition
Assists farmers out west
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Interstate commerce act
 Definition
Regulates r.r.
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Social Darwinism
 Definition
Survival of the fittest
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Monopoly
 Definition
Exclusive control of a business
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Trust
 Definition
combining various companies into one
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Conspicuous Consumption
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To show off ones wealth
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Yellow Journalism
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Exaggerate
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Political Machienes
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Group that control the activity of a pol. party
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Graft
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Use of pol. authority for personal gain
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Sitting Bull
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Sioux Cheif
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Willa Cather
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Novels of life in the plains
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Joseph Glidden
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Barbed Wire
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Elijah McCoy
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Lubricating cup
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Thomas Edison
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Lightbulb inventor
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Marry Harris Jones
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"Mother Jones" Labor organizer
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Elisha Otis
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Elevator
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Caroline Bartlett
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"Americans housekeeper" Sanitation
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Scott Joplin
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"King of ragtime"
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William Marcy Tweed
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Tammany Hall Leader, NYC
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Grover Clevland
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22nd + 24th president, two non consecutive terms
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
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Queen Mary, populist party, sufferage
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William Jennings Bryan
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Populist leader (rural famers party)
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Florence Kelly
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Labor organizer
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Samuel Gompers
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Union Leader
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Lawerence Veiller
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NYC social reformer
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W.E.B. Dubois
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NAACP
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Frances Willard
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18th + 19th amendmants
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Mark Twain
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The Gilded Age
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James A Garfield
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20th pres , assasinated
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Susan B. Anthony
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Womens Sufferage
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Andrew Carnegie
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Steel
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Railroads
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J.P Morgan
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Banker
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John D. Rockefeller
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Oil
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George Pullman
 Definition
Railroad car, company town
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