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21 Cards in this Set
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Who was a New York banker?
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J. P. Morgan
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The arrival point in America for most immigrants was...
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Ellis Island
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Who was a railroad tycoon?
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Special lands set aside for Native Americans were called...
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reservations
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Two countries that provided many railroad worders were...
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Ireland and China
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What was the name of the cattle drive path?
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Goodnight-Loving
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What industry produces materials like coal, iron and steel?
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heavy
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A refusal by workers to do their jobs is called a...
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strike
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Bottle Alley is a name for a New York...
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slum
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The author of How the Other Half Lives is...
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Jacob Riis
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The first transcontinental railroad was completed in what year?
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1869
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Through the Dawes Act, the governmnet tried to get Native Americans to take up what?
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farming
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The final defeat of the Native Americans occured where?
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Wounded Knee
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Some people blamed immigrants for what kind of pay?
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low
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Most newcommers to the city lived in...
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apartments
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Whites killed buffalo mostly for food and for..
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hides
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Thousands of Southern African Americans moved to New York City and settled in what area?
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Harlem
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The Populist Party hoped to end the raliroads' high rates through...
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nationalization
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After William McKinley was assassinated who became President?
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Theodore Roosevelt
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The Sioux leader that led his people off a reservation was...
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Sitting Bull
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Describe how immigrants in the US lived.
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The immigrants lived in their own neighborhoods mostly. Many could not afford houses so they lived in rented apartment buildings. Most families crammed into 1 bedroom apartments. They had poor sanitiation and sewer systems.
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