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24 Cards in this Set
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an organization that is authorized by law to carry on an activity but treated as though it were a single person
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CORPORATION
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an organized way of bargaining to negotiate higher wages and better working conditions
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UNION
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farming methods; growing food
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agriculture
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migration to a place you aren't native to
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immigration
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variety of cultures in a specific region
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cultural diversity
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a former union general; pushed the Union Pacific westward for Omaha, Nebraska in 1865
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Grenville Dodge
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former confederate army soldiers who drove cattle for Ranchers
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cowboys
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total control of a type of industry by one person or one company
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monopoly
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allowed the president of the US to set aside forest reserves from the land in a public domain
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Forest Reserve Act
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dignitaries from the East and West met to hammer gold & silver spikes into final rails that would join the Union Pacific and Central Pacific
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Promontory Point, Utah
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invented the lightbulb
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Thomas Edison
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invented the telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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first nationwide industrial union
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Knights of Labor
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cultivated land that isnt needed for one or more growing seasons
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fallow
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countryside
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rural
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city; well populated areas
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urban
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for $10 registration fee, an individual could file for a homestead( a tract of public land available for settlement)
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Homestead Act of 1862
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Henry Comstock staked a claim in six-mile canyon, Nevada. Comstock striked silver; news of this brought hordes of miners to Virginia City, Nevada
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Comstock Lode
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a name given to Great Plains farmers
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sodbusters
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a deadly battle costing the lives of 25 US soldiers and approximately 200 Lakota men, women, and children
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Wounded Knee
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to ABSORB a group into the culture of a larger population
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assimilate
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a large, highly-profitable wheat farm
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Bonanza farm
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or aridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and t petition the goverment for a redress of grievances
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amendment 1
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a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed
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amendment 2
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