Unit 7 Jeopardy

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anthony comstock/comstock law

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enforce sexual morality in late 19th century to clean up cities.

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walter rauschenbusch

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major proponent of social gospel movement- churches should be doing social work.

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jane addams

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founder and guiding light of hull house [settlement house for immigrants]

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emma lazarus

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author of the poem on the base of statue of liberty

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american fever, intense desire to immigrate

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effect of letters home from American immigrants

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henry bessemer

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he started mass producing steel by burning impurities in iron

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brooklyn bridge

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symbol of America's industrial might and ingenuity

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cornelius vanderbilt [former steamboat person]

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new york central railroad operated by..

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interstate commerce commission

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enforce fair and above-board business practices required by interstate commerce act

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gov. land grants

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means of financing railroad construction, esp. transcontinental railroads

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cartel/pool

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divide up and control business, monopoly to control prices

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american protective association

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nativist organization supported restrictions on imigration

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W.E.B. DuBois

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advocated this position w/regard to black/white relations: equality, the talented 10th lead rest of black population to equality. immediate integration.

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chinese

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first group to be banned for nationality

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land profits

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in "progress and poverty" henry george proposed hefty tax on this "unfair" profit.

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sherman anti-trust act

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activity of labor unions was restricted by a loose interpretation of this law

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terrence powderly

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most famous leader of the knights of labor

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Booker T. Washington

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view on black/white relations: wants white people to hir black people

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yellow dog contracts

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factory owners required workers to sign these contracts to keep labor unions out

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new immigrants

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ethnic enclaves is characteristic of this segment of American society

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weakened/divided knights--skilled craftsmen defected to exclusively skilled

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inclusion of skilled and unskilled in knights of labor

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Great Northern railroad

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first railroad unsupported by government aid

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Joseph L. Pulitzer and William Randolph Herst

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became associated with yellow journalism [tabloids]

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pullman strike

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court injunction used for the first time on this strike

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ben-hur

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lewis wallace's anti-darwinist work

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victoria woodhull

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"free love" advocate, feminist

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morrill act of 1862

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established land grant colleges

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Horatio Alger

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"rags to riches" stories

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grouped together to monopolize or driven to bankruptcy

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cut throat competition w/railroads

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John D. Rockefeller

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compared company to American beauty rose

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ghost dance

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battle of wounded knee

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became employee of large mining corp w/capital to dig deep mines

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high costs of hard rock mining put placer miner in this position

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railroads

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great plains farmers depended on these for access to eastern/western markets

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new south movement

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henry grady- goal to diversify and industrialize southern economy

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judiciary branch/supreme court

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corporations generally favored by decisions of this government branch

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herbert spencer

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british philosopher of social darwinism

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dawes severalty act

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encouraged indians to own their own farms and assimilate

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william jennings bryan

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cross of gold speech

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free coinage of silver

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advocates of this monetary policy wanted to cause inflation so debts easier to pay

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settlement/agricultural tech in great plains

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windmills, etc.

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darwin's "on the origin of species"

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split church into modernists/fundamentalists

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Ida B. Wells

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led crusade against lynching

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states began to regulate railroads

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state legislature led way w/this railroad policy

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charles crocker

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first transcontinental railroad chief engineer

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frederick jackson turner

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frontier is the key to development of American character

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little big horn

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discovery of gold in black hills led to landmark clash w/sioux and allied tribes

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sooners

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oklahoma land rush nickname for those who jumped the gun.

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populist party

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free coinage of silver, graduated income tax, lower tariff rates, gov ownership of railroads