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21 Cards in this Set
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______________ are organizations of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions.
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Labor Unions
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In economics, ____________, or money stock, is the total amount of money available in an economy at a particular point in time. There are several ways to define "money", but each includes currency in circulation and demand deposits.
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Money Supply
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In economics, a __________________ exists when a specific individual or enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine price and supply.
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Monopoly
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An American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during the late 1800 and early 1900.
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J.P. Morgan
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_____________ is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States.
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NAACP
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In an attempt to assimilate Native American Children into the European American society the children were taken from their parents and sent to ________________.
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Native American Boarding Schools
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Land set aside for Native Americans, usually land poor for farming and much less than the original treaties guaranteed them.
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Native American Reservations
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The act of donating money, goods, services, time and/or effort to support a socially beneficial cause, with a defined objective and with no financial or material reward to the donor.
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Philanthropy
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Landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
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Plessy V. Ferguson
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Form of riot directed against Jews that is either spontaneous or premeditated, but has also been applied to similar incidents against other minority groups.
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Pogroms
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A disciplined political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts.
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Political Machine
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In the United States it was used to disenfranchise poor people including African Americans and Native Americans by having them pay to vote.
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Poll Tax
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A member of a political party claiming to represent the common people and/or a member of a political party formed in 1891 primarily to represent agrarian interests and to advocate the free coinage of silver and government control of monopolies
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Populist
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Republican William McKinley defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan in a campaign considered by historians to be one of the most dramatic in American history.
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Presidential election of 1896
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The push factor involves a force which acts to drive people away from a place and the pull factor is what draws them to a new location.
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Push-pull factors
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Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer, known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the less fortunate in New York City
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Jacob Riis
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Term used in late 1800s in reference to businessmen and bankers who dominated their respective industries and amassed huge personal fortunes, typically as a direct result of pursuing various anti-competitive or unfair business practices.
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Robber barons
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An American industrialist and philanthropist during the late 1800s and early 1900s and he revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.
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John D. Rockefeller
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Term used to identify the separation of different racial groups in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home.
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Segregation
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A theory that competition among all individuals, groups, nations, or ideas drives social evolution in human societies.
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Social Darwinism
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Term refers to a broad set of economic theories advocating state or collective ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, and an egalitarian society characterized by equal opportunities for all individuals and a fair or egalitarian distribution of wealth.
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Socialism
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