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30 Cards in this Set
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robber barons
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historians and journalists referred to the "captains of industry" as this because they tried to make them seem to be the personifications of greed and callousness
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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shipping entrepreneur
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Andrew Carnegie
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steel entrepreneur
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John D. rockefeller
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oil refining entrepreneur
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John Pierpont Morgan
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financier
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Alexander Graham Bell
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inventor of the telephone
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Thomas Alva Eidson
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America's most prolific inventor; most famous for the incandescent light bulb, phonograph, motion picture projector
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Roscoe Conkling
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corrupt New York politician who controlled the Customs House
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James A. Garfield
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reforming president who was assassinated
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Chester A. Arthur
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reformed the civil service sysstem
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Grover Cleveland
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the first Democratic president since the war; championed commerce reform
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Benjamin Harrison
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weak president; monopoly reform
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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made monopolies or "trusts" of companies illegal
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Panic of '93
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severe depression that hit America during Grover Cleveland's second administration
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American Federation of Labor
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most influential labor organizaton
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Samuel Gompers
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labor union leader
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Eugene V. Debs
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radical leader of the Socialist Party
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injunction
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a court order forbidding an action
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socialism
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philosophy that advocates the collective or government ownership or regulation of the means of production
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Populist Party
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midwestern free-silver party became prominent in the 1890s
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William McKinley
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winner of the first modern presidential election campaign (1896)
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William Jennings Bryan
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"the Great Commoner" and free-silver crusader
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Jim Crow Laws
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legislation that forced segregation or separation of the races in trains, restaurants, hotels, schools, etc.
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James Buchanan Duke
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the South's tobacco entrepreneur
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James J. Hill
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built Great Northern Railroad without any government money or special favors
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Terrance V. Powderly
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leader of the Knights of Labor
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Booker T. Washington
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sought economical solutions for blacks to better themselves
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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sought betterment of blacks through political solutions
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D. L. Moody
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leader of the movement of urban evangelism
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Fanny Crosby
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most prolific hymn writer in history
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