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27 Cards in this Set
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What was the name William Marcy Tweed used based off of a Delaware Indian chief?
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Tammany Hall
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Which cartoonist received a $500,000 bribe from William Tweed not to run cartoons in the newspaper against him?
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Thomas Nat
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Who finally convicted William Tweed in 1872, and would later become the future governor of New York?
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Samuel Tilden
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Which act brought over fifty thousand prospectors to Oklahoma to get the free, Indian cleared land?
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Homestead Act
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When was the Great Oklahoma Land Rush?
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April 22, 1889
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Who did Davis quote in watching the Great Oklahoma Land Rush?
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Hamilton S. Wicks
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When and where was the first successful Union gathering, where 10,000 workers complained for higher wages, eventually getting them?
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February 17, 1860, Lynn, MA
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In 1875, Pennsylvania, what did the Irish coal worker Union call themselves, before being caught and executed for grounds of violence?
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Molly Maguires
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What and when was the first labor Union organized, later having over 700,000 members?
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Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, 1869
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The Knights of Labor Massacre happened when and where, pretty much ending the labor Union when police got involved: bombs dropping, guns a'blazing?
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May 3, 1886, Chicago
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Who were the Knights of Labor against in their massacre?
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McCormick Reaper Company
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Who were the leaders of the American Railroad Union? (E, S)
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Eugene Debs, Samuel Gompers
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What company did 60,000 laborers in the American Railroad Union go against in 1894, Chicago, where strikers were eventually killed by the military?
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Pullman Car Company
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Who founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), getting impressive gains for laborers like better wages, shorter working hours, safety, and the right to negotiate?
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Samuel Gompers
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What minority group did the AFL exclude that reduced its chances to make even more progress?
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African Americans
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What was the nickname given to prospectors who "jumped the gun" with the Great Oklahoma Land Rush?
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Sooners
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What were farm organizations called?
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Granges
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When and where did the Granges and remnants of the Knights of Labor form the People's/Populist Party?
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1892, St. Louis
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Which populist leader said, "What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell!"?
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
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Who became president in 1892?
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Grover Cleveland
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Who gave the famous speech, "Cross of Gold" in 1896?
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William Jennings Bryan
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Who won the presidential race against William Jennings Bryan and Populists in 1896 because they spent $7 million, "buying" the race?
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William McKinley
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How much of a fraction was Homer Plessy black, still enough for him to get arrested for trying to sit on a white reserved railroad coach?
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1/8
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When was the Plessy vs. Ferguson case taken to the Supreme Court, saying that "separate but equal" was constitutional?
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1896
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What were the South afraid of the blacks, with the Jim Crow laws? (P,S)
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Politics, sex
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What was the name of the entertainer who called himself Jim Crow, pretending to be a stupid African American?
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Thomas Dartmouth Rice
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Who became very educated, creating schools for African Americans in the South, trying to get blacks educated and work hard, could have a way of mesmerizing the crowd?
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Booker Washington
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