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32 Cards in this Set
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Wizard of Menlow Park, created lightbulb, phonograph |
Thomas Edison |
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Created "talking telegraph" and helped set up the American Telephone and Telegraph company for long distance communication |
Alexander Graham Bell |
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Invented Morse code for use over telegraph |
Samuel Morse |
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Created a process to help improve the production of steel |
Henry Bessemer |
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Sent to Pennsylvania to drill for oil and used a new method using an oil well |
Edwin Drake |
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Immigrants traveled in the ________, an open area below the deck with limited toilets, no privacy, and poor food but for cheap tickets |
Steerage |
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Mainly entered the U.S. through here |
The "Golden Door" |
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Immigrants were ________ when they had infectious diseases. I.e. trachoma, an eye disease |
Quarantined |
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This is an area where one ethnic or racial group dominated |
Ghetto |
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This was an agreement among homeowners not to sell real estate to certain groups of people |
Restrictive covenant |
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This group of people were excluded because they accepted lower wages than others, affecting other workers' wages. They were considered "not worthy of being American" and got their own exclusion act. |
Chinese workers, Chinese Exclusion act |
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A policy that favored native-born citizens over immigrants |
Nativism |
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Tried to ban alcohol, drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other vices |
Temperance movement and purity crusaders |
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This movement tried to help immigrants improve their lives by offering education, child care, and health care. |
Settlement Movement |
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This settlement house was originally for offering home healthcare to the poor |
Henry Street Settlement |
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Attacked and slaughtered Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek |
Colonel Jon Chivington |
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Famous African american cowboy, aka Deadwood Dick |
Nat Love |
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25th president and the 3rd assassinated president |
William McKinley |
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Encourages African Americans to learn vocational skills |
Booker Washington |
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Preached the "gospel of wealth" |
Andrew Carnegie |
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Sioux chief was shot and killed, led to the battle at Wounded Knee |
Sitting Bull |
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Advocated for silver money standard |
William Jennings Bryan |
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Opened a settlement house in Chicago |
Jane Addams |
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He was assassinated which led to WWI |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
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Woman's suffrage activist, born in Adams ma. |
Susan B. Anthony |
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Author of The Jungle |
Upton Sinclair |
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Called McKinley weak, led to the Spanish-American war |
Enrique Dupuy Delome |
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Woman's suffrage activist, with Lucretia Mott, Seneca Falls NY |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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26th president, bully pulpit |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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German foreign secretary made a deal for them to declare was on the U.S. in exchange for land |
Arthus Zimmerman |
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Fought to improve workers' conditions despite personal tragedy |
Mary "mother" Jones |
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"Fighting Bob", governer, leader of progressors |
Robert Lafollete |
