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40 Cards in this Set
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Comstock Lode
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The discovery of this gold and silver deposit was the primary reason why Nevada entered the union.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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To reduce foreign competition, this act restricted further Chinese immigration for mining.
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Vaqueros
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The first cowboys. They wrangled the large herds of wild cattle in Texas.
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Barbed Wire
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This invention was used by ranchers to keep their cattle in their land and to keep other people out.
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Oklahoma Territory
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This land quickly became known as Indian territory when many Indian tribes were forced to move here.
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Sitting Bull
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He was a Sioux holy man, killed by police during an attempt to prevent him from supporting the Ghost Dance movement.
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George Custer
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He was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the Civil War and the Indian Wars.
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Helen Hunt Jackson
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She was the author of Ramona, a novel about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California.
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Dawes Severalty Act
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This act authorized the President to divide Indian tribal lands into allotments for individual families.
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Ghost Dance Movement
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A Native American religious movement that centered on the preaching of the prophet of peace Jack Wilson.
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Wounded Knee
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300 members of the Lakota Sioux tribe were killed in this last major armed conflict with the US.
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Indian Reorganization Act
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This restored certain rights to Native Americans, including local self-government and management of land.
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New South
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A term describing the rise of a south that would no longer be depended on slavery or the raising of cotton.
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George Washington Carver
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He worked in the Tuskegee Institute teaching former slaves farming techniques. He researched alternatives to cotton.
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Farmers' Alliance
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This organization grew out of the Grange movement, which formed social organizations among farmers.
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Colored Farmers' National Alliance
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An organization founded for farmers' self-protection from 'land sharks,' merchants, and horse thieves.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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The court upheld a law that required "separate but equal" accomodations in Louisiana.
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Jim Crow laws
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Laws requiring that public schools, places and transportation have separate accomodations for whites and blacks.
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Bishop Henry Turner
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A Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, he was a proponent of the "back to Africa" movement.
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Ida B. Wells
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She was an African American civil rights advocate and an early women's rights advocate who spoke out against lynching.
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Booker T. Washington
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He was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community.
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National Negro Business League
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An organization founded by Booker T. Washington to aid commercial and financial development of blacks.
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National Grange Movement
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An organization for American farmers that encouraged them to band together for their economic and political good.
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Munn v. Illinois
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This case allowed states to regulate certain businesses within their borders, including railroads.
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Wabash v. Illinois
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A Supreme Court case that severely limited the rights of states to control interstate commerce.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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An American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads.
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Panic of 1893
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A serious decline in the economy that was precipitated in part by a run on the gold supply.
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J. P. Morgan
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an American financier, banker, and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation.
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Bessemer process
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The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron.
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Andrew Carnegie
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This major philanthropist is known for building one of the most powerful and influential corporations in US history.
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Vertical integration
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This term refers to when a company controls all of the aspects of their business interest.
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U.S. Steel
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J. P. Morgan and Elbert H. Gary founded this company by merging several smaller companies.
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John D. Rockefeller
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He revolutionized the petroleum industry and founded the Standard Oil Company.
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Horizontal integration
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A strategy used by a business or corporation that seeks to sell a type of product in numerous markets.
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United States v. E. C. Knight Co.
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A United States Supreme Court case that limited the government's power to control monopolies.
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George Westinghouse
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A pioneer of the electrical industry. His system of alternating current won out over Edison's DC system.
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Horatio Alger
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He wrote 135 dime novels, most of them describing rags-to-riches stories of the American Dream.
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Iron Law of Wages.
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An theory of economics that asserted that wages would trend to the value needed to keep the workers' population constant.
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National Labor Union
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The first national labor federation in the US. It was led by William H. Sylvis.
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In re Debs
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The court ruled that the government had a right to regulate interstate commerce and ensure the operations of the Postal Service.
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