Chapter 16

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Gilded Age

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Mark Twain called the Industrial Age the____

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D. L. Moody

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an evangelist who was a Boston shoe salesman

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Sankey

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traveled and worked with D. L. Moody

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Sam Jones

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known as the "Moody of the South"

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Chapman

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Presbyterian evangelist who held meetings around the world

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Mel Trotter

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founded 67 rescue missions

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William Booth

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founded the Salvation Army

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Jane Adams

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founded a settlement known as the Hull House

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Sheldon Jackson

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One of the most active home missionaries who took the gospel to Alaska

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Jesse James

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noted train robber

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Wyatt Earp

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sheriff of Dodge County

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Battle of O. K. Corral

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the shootout at Tombstone, Arizona

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Black Hills

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the land the Sioux Indians lived in

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Crazy Horse

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attacked and killed General Custer and his men

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Geronimo

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surrendered the last great Indian battle that came about as a result of the Ghost Dance ritual

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Dawes Act

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offered land and U.S. citizenship to any head of and Indian family who would take up farming or ranching

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Homestead Act

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opened the Great Plains for settlement

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sod houses

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the kind of home that settlers most often lived in

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Joseph Glidden

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the man that came up with the idea of spinning steel strands into barbed wire for fences

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Comstock Lode

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proved to be one of the richest silver mines in the West

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Virginia City

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the silver-mining capital of the world

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Oliver Kelly

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founded the organization known as the Grange

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cooperatives

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Grangers organized businesses to try to help farmers manage their money

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inflation

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rapid increase of prices caused by a change in the distribution of money

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greenbacks

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paper money

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Greenback Labor Party

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formed to try to keep the greenbacks in circulation

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Pendleton Civil Service Act

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made it so people could not get into a government position without a competitive examination

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Grover Cleveland

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first Democrat to win the Presidency after the Civil War

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Samuel Gompers

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organized the first successful national labor union called the American Federation of Labor

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Interstate Commerce Act

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set up the Interstate Commerce Commission which regulated the shipping rates charged by the railroads

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Johnstown flood

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one of the worst natural disasters in American history

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Wyoming

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the first state admitted to the Union to grant women full political privileges

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free silver movement

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the center piece of the Populist Party

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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broke up large companies

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Grover Cleveland

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the only President to serve two terms not in direct succession to each other

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Pleasy V. Ferguson

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in what court battle did they declare that racial segregation was legal

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Atlanta Compromise

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the speech Booker T. Washington gave on how the blacks could change their treatment

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William McKinley

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Ohio governor who favored the gold standard

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Louisa May Alcott

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wrote Little Woman and other works that taught the importance of moral living and family

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General Lew Wallace

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wrote Ben Hur

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Ben Hur

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most popular novel in the late 19th century

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Charles M. Sheldon

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wrote In His Steps

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Emily Dickenson

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wrote many untitled poems that were not published until long after her death

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Walt Whitman

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wrote O Captain my Captain

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James Whitcomb Riley

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became known as "the Hoosier poet" and "the poet of common people"

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naturalist writers

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evolutionary writers

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Frederic Remington

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became known for his paintings, drawings, and bronze sculptures of cowboys and Indians

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Currier and Ives

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made prints that provided a pictorial record of American life in the 19th century

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John Philip Sousa

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a band master who became known as the "march king"

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Ira Sankey

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wrote "There Were Ninety and Nine"

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Fanny Crosby

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wrote "Blessed Assurance"