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35 Cards in this Set
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Homestead |
Settlement of land for a number of years to own it |
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Transcontinental railroad |
Coast to coast rail |
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Union pacific |
West side of transcontinental railroad, Irish |
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Central pacific |
East side of transcontinental railroad, Asians |
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2nd great removal |
Moving native Americans to the plains |
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Government boarding schools |
Where native Americans were schooled in white culture |
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Daws severalty act |
Sold left over native American land to the white settlers |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Steel for steel rails (tracks), combined the process, vertical integration |
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Industrialism |
Manufacturing as the main source of economic growth |
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National market |
Trade nationally |
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Gustavus swift |
Refrigerated rail cars |
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Consumerism |
Buying more than the necessities |
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Merger |
Combining of several competing firms under a single head |
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John D. Rockefeller |
Oil, merged same companies, horizontal integration |
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Horizontal integration |
All the same |
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Vertical integration |
All the parts |
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J. P. Morgan |
Bought Carnegie's line, added more: U. S. Steel Corporation |
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Guilded Age |
Wealthy. New "nouveau riche" class |
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Social Darwinism |
Natural selection, justifies robber Barron's |
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Free silver |
Populist party support, unlimited coinage of silver |
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Union |
Organization for mutual benefit |
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Strike |
Work stoppage |
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Knights of labor |
Farmers, merchants, unskilled workers |
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Mary Harris Jones |
In knights of labor. Most effective campaigner |
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Homestead Strike |
Steel company. Hired guards so workers went back to work |
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Coeur d'Alene |
Mining. Federal troops sent in, workers back to work. |
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Pullman Strike |
Rail sleeping car. Lowered wages and fired workers during the depression |
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Injunction |
Followed Pullman strike. Order by a president to stop a fight |
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Roosevelt |
General in Spanish-American war, rough riders |
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Monroe doctrine |
Declaration saying western hemisphere is ours. If they squire land in the area it is a direct war declaration. |
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Expansionism |
Process of increasing territory in the U. S. |
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William Steward |
"idiot" who bought Alaska |
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War With Spain |
Cuba and Philippines |
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Battleship starting the war |
Battleship Maine |
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Armstice |
Ceasefire |
