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27 Cards in this Set
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Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier hypothesis" focused on the importance of -->
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The existence of cheap unsettled land.
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"This, then, is held to be the duty of man of wealth: to consider..."
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These sentiments are characteristics of the Gospel of Wealth
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Members of the Hudson River valley school painted
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Landscapes
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The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy V Ferguson did which of the following?
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Upheld segregated railroad facilities
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The horizontal integration of American industry that occured at the end of the 19th century was primarily a response to
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economic competition
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They Haymarket incident involved
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a riot between striker workers and police
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The precipitating factor in the 1894 Pullman strike was pullman's
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Cutting of wages w/o proportionate cuts in housing and etc.
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The only dominant broad-based labor union in the US from 1870-1890 was the
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Knights of Labor
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In his Atlanta compromise speech, Booker T Washington called for which of the following
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support for African Americans self help
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The term "rober baron" refers to
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late 19th century industrialists
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Helen Hunt Jackson's book entitled A century of dishonor (1880) recounted
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the long record of mistreatment of Native Americans
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Which of the following best accounts for the success of the American Federation of Labor in organizing labor in the late 1800's
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its policy of organizing only skilled craftsmen
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The Dawes Act did which of the following
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Divided Native American Lands into individual plots
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Jim crow laws
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mandated racial segregation in public facilities
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The Dawes Severity Act
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Offered each Indian head of family 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land
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The peace policy toward Native Americans was undertaken by president
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Which Union was hurt irrevocably by the Haymarket Square Protest
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Knights of Labor
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Who was the author of the Utopian romance "Looking Backward"
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Edward Belany
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The social gospel movement worked to improve
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the physical and spiritual state of people
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Social Darwinism argued that human history witnessed
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A struggle among the races with the strongest triumphing
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Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
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A federal law that committed the American Movement to opposing monopolies, it prohibits contracts, combination, and conspiracies in restraint of trade
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Serman Silver Purchase Act 1890
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Directed the treasury to buy even larger amounts of silver that the Bland-Allison Act and at inflated prices. The introduction of large quantities of overvalued silver into the economy lead to run on the federal gold reserves leading to the panic of 1893. Repealed in 1893.
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Pullman Strike 1894
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Started by enraged workers who were part of george pullmans "model town", it began when pullman fired three workers on a committee. Pull man refused to negotiate and troops were brought in to ensure that trains would continue to run, When orders for Pullman cars slacked off, Pullman cut wages, but did not cut rents or store prices
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Populist Party Platform/Omaha Platform
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(PEOPLES PARTY) Wanted the free coinage of silver and paper money; national income tax; direct election of senators; regulation of railroads; and other government reforms to help farmers.
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W.E.B. DuBouis
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A Black orator and essayist. Helped form NAACP. Disagreed with Booker T Washington's theories and took a militant position on race relations.
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Booker T Washington
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Educator who urged blacks to better themselves though education and economic advancement, rather then by trying to achieve equal rights.
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Plessy V. Ferguson
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Plessy was a black man who had been instructed by the NAACP to refuse to ride in the train car reserved for blacks. Supreme court held facilities could be separate if equal
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