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23 Cards in this Set
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WCTU
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was a organization in the 1874 by women who were concerned about the destructive power of alcohol and the problems it was causing their families and society.
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Eli Whitney
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Was an American Inventor who was best known for his invention the Cottin Gin. The cotton gin made cotton into a profitable crop in the early 1800's . This invention helped strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the U.S.
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Lowell Mill Girls
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Was the name used for female textile workers in Lowell, Massachusetts in the 19th century. These women published several literary magazines to be the voice of the industry, which led to many protests and formed a union.
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Hay Market Affair
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also known as the Hay Market Riot or Massacre happened in 1886. This event was a rally in support of striking workers at the Hay Market Square in Chicago but resulted in chaos as an unknown bomb exploded and killed 8 officers.
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KKK
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Organized in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866 to terrorize former slaves who voted and held political offices during Reconstruction; a re- vived organization in the 1910s and 1920s stressed white, Anglo- Saxon, fundamentalist Protestant supremacy; the Klan revived a third time to fight the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the South.
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Sarah Grimke
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She was an American Abolitionist in the 19th century who was the daughter of John Grimke. John Grimke was a rich plantation owner and owned many slaves. Sarah was against slavery at a early age and decided to move away from her family. She eventually became a leader in the Charleston Ladies Benevolent Society.
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Ida B. Wells
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Throughout her life Wells was militant in her demands for equality and justice for African-Americans and insisted that the African-American community win justice through its own efforts.
"...A woman born in slavery, she would grow to become one of the great pioneer activists of the Civil Rights movement. A precursor of Rosa Parks, she was a suffragist, newspaper editor and publisher, investigative journalist, co-founder of the NAACP, political candidate, mother, wife, and the single most powerful leader in the anti-lynching campaign in America.” |
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Nativism
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Anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic feeling in the 1830s through the 1850s; the largest group was New York’s Order of the Star-Spangled Banner, which expanded into the American, or Know-Nothing, party in 1854.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur on May 8, 1882 It Halted Chinese immigration to the United States.
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Eerie Canal
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Most important and profitable of the barge canals of the 1820s and 1830s; stretched from Buffalo to Albany, New York, connecting the Great Lakes to the East Coast and making New York City the nation’s largest port.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. Garrison was also a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.
Seneca Falls Convention- First women’s rights meeting and the genesis of the women’s suffrage movement |
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Ann Lee
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was the leader of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, or Shakers.
In 1774 she and a small group of her followers emigrated from England to New York. After several years, they gathered at Niskayuna, renting land from the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, Albany County, New York (the area now called Colonie). They worshiped by ecstatic dancing or "shaking", which dubbed them as the Shaking Quakers, or Shakers. Ann Lee preached to the public and led the Shaker church at a time when few women did either. |
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Transcontinental Railroad
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First line across the continent from Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California, established in 1869 with the linkage of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory, Utah.
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Mormons
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Founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith,the sect (officially,the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) was a product of the intense revivalism of the “Burned-Over District’’ of New York; Smith’s successor Brigham Young led 15,000 followers to Utah in 1847 to escape persecution.
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Reconstruction
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Federal program established in 1932 under President Herbert Hoover to loan money to banks and other institutions to help them avert bankruptcy.
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Treaty of New Echota
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The treaty was amended and ratified in March 1836. The treaty established terms under which the entire Cherokee Nation was expected to move west to the Indian Territory. Although it was not approved by the Cherokee National Council, it was ratified by the U.S. Senate and became the legal basis for the forcible removal known as the Trail of Tears.
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Nat Turner
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was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 56 white deaths and over 55 black deaths, the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising prior to the American Civil War in the southern United States. He gathered supporters in Southampton County, Virginia.
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Charles Grandison Finney
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The Father of Modern Revivalism.
Finney was known for his innovations in preaching and religious meetings such as having women pray in public meetings of mixed gender, development of the "anxious seat", a place where those considering becoming Christians could come to receive prayer and public censure of individuals by name in sermons and prayers. He was also known for his use of extemporaneous preaching. |
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Freemen’s Bureau
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Reconstruction agency established in 1865 to protect the legal rights of former slaves and to assist with their education, jobs, health care, and landowning.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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U.S. Supreme Court decision supporting the legality of Jim Crow laws that permitted or required “separate but equal’’ facilities for blacks and whites.
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Triangle Fire
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It was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in New York City that killed 146 textile women in 1911. This led to Progressive legislation and helped in developing worker rights.
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W.E.B. DuBois
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First African American to earn his Phd at the University of Harvard. He was head of the NAACP that rivaled Booker T. Washington in the early 1900’s.
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Andrew Carnegie
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He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U.S. Steel.
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