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19 Cards in this Set
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What is a Homesteader?
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A person who settled on a piece of land for five years and farmed it.
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What is Comstock, Nevada know for?
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silver mining
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What help people move west faster.
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Transcontinental railroad
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What was the Grange?
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A group that helped the farmers.
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What did unions do?
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an organization to protect workers' rights.
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Who is John D. Rockefeller?
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He built up the oil industry.
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Who was John P. Morgan?
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He built a banking empire.
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Who was Andrew Carnegie?
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He built a steel empire and later sold it to J.P. Morgan.
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Who was George Custer?
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a General who was killed by the Sioux warriors at Little Big Horn.
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Who was Chief Joseph?
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When he surrender he vowed, "I will fight no more forever."
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Who was George Washington Carver?
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He wound more then 300 uses for peanuts.
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Who was Jane Addams?
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A social worker who began Hull House in Chicago to help people.
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Who was Gamuel Gompers?
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He founded the American Federation of Labor.
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Who was Zebulon Pike?
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He explored the Great Plains
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Who is a naturalized citizen?
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People who were born in a foreign country and were citizens of that country.
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What is a monopoly?
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Sole control of a entire business.
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What subsistence farming?
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Grew different crops to take care of the basic needs of the family.
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What is commercial farming?
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Grow 1 or 2 money make crops to support their family and farm needs.
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Who was the Populist Party?
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Farmers and working people
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