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60 Cards in this Set
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Union stradegy during the Civil War
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Anaconda Plan
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taking cattle from Texas ranches to the railroads
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long drives
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President of the Confederate States of America
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Jefferson Davis
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allowed for direct election of senators
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17th amendment
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1st major land battle of the Civil War
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Battle of 1st Manassas
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first president to be impeached
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Andrew Johnson
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a company that dominates a certain industry
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monopoly
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gave black adult males the right to vote
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15th amendment
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invented the light bulb
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Thomas Edison
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cheap fictional books about the West
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Dime Novels
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portion of the profits of a corporation
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dividends
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an official pardon
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amnesty
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americas first national park
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Yellowstone
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battle that took place on the bloodiest day in U.S. History
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Antietam
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applying natural selection to society
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Social Darwinism
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where the first tanscontinental railroad met
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Promontory, Utah
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battle more commonly know as Custer's last stand
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Battle of Lottle Bighorn
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Confederate advantages during the Civil War
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knew the territory, good generals,
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President of the U.S. during the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln
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exaggerating news stories to attract readers
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yellow journalism
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principle that buisness runs best if the government stays out
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Laissez Faire Economics
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head of the executive branch
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president
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1st ten amendments of the constitution
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Bill of Rights
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had a monopoly in the oil industry
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Rockefeller
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command the Confederate army during the Civil War
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Robert E. Lee
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led the army at the Battle of Little Bighorn
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Custer
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provided free land out west
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Homestead Act
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bought from Russia in 1867
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Alaska
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a company that is broken down into shares of stock
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corporation
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most famous law man of the west
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Wyatt Earp
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abolitionist novel that helped raise anti-slavery sentiment in the North
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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invented the telephone
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Alexander Grahm Bell
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cheap housing for the poor
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tenements
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battle that was the turning point of the Civil War
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Gettysburg
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expanding in more than one step of making a product
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vertical integration
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stated tht segregation was legal if facilities were equal
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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mining from stream beds
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placer mining
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economy based on private ownership of buisness and competition
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capitalism
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abolished slavery
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13th amendment
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opening battle of the Civil War
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Battle of Fort Sumter
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expanding in one step of making a product
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horizontal integration
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had the most famous of the wild west shows
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Buffalo Bill Cody
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stated that slaves were free on January 1, 1863
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Emancipation Proclimation
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physical, social and economic rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
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reconstruction
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Supreme Court decision that stated that slaves were property, not citizens
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Dred Scott Case
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citizens vote on important legislation
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referendum
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killed more men than battle wounds during the Civil War
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disease
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Union advantages during teh Civil War
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railroad, population,
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allowed steel to be made chaeper and quicker
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Bessemer Process
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man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
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John Wilcks Booth
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gave blacks rights as citizens
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14th Amendment
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bottom accomidations on a passenger ship
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steerage
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immigration processing center in New York harbor
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Ellis Island
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author of the Jungle
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Upton Sinclair
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movement of the late 1800's that aimed to solve political, economic, and social problems of America
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progressivism
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prejudice towards immigrants by native bor citizens
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nativism
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prohibition
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18th amendment
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invented the telegraph
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Samuel Morse
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had a monopoly in the steel industry
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Carnegie
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womens suffrage
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19th amendment
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