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28 Cards in this Set
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Steel plow
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John Deere-- cut through soil of Plains and Midwest
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Bared Wire
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farmers could fence in land-- impact open range
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The railroad
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farmers could sell surplus-town grew-industries grew as a result of RR
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Electric Light
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Thomas Edison
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Bessemer Process
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quicker stronger steel production
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Compressed Gas Refrigeration
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Kept meat and produce from spoiling
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Manifest Destiny
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Began expanding in the West
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Congress built the transcontinental railroad
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1862
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The US provided free Land under what ACT
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Homestead Act
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AS more settlers moved to the west the lives of Native Americans
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disrupted
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Natives Americans were forced to live on what
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Reservations
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Daws Act
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Assimilate the Native American (make the like whites)
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exoduster- blacks who went to the west
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Populist Party
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People PArty
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President Cleveland GLover believed in the sliver standard William Byran -argued that the use of gold was a harm to the farmers(Cross 0f Gold Speech) |
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immigration arrive in Europe to also work in cities called ethnic ghettes |
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Andrew-Steel JD Rockfeller-Oil Cornelius Vanderbilt-Railroad JP Morgan-Banking |
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Knight of Labor -early union that accepted diverse memebers |
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Muckracker -a person exposed evil of business |
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Ida Tarbell-black -author exposed Standard Oil |
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Civil Service Commission -agency designed to oversee government hiring |
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spoil system-providing one's suppoters with government jobs
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Horace Mann-reformer who pushed for education
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16th-imcome taxes 17th-people elect senators instead of state legistors 18th-prohibition 19th-Women Suffage 20th-Congressional meeting-terms of elected officals |
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Interstate Commerce Act-1887-correct rall abuses Sherman Antitrust Act-made trusts which destroying competition illegal |
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Glided Age-when thing appeared good, but there were some problems Industrialization- time of majior population growth |
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Urbanization- time in which cities grew rapidly Immigration-time of major population growth |
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Westward Expansion-time in which American gained more domestic Progressive Era-when people tried to change/correct the problems of the nation |
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