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was editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the candidate of the Democratic and Liberal Republican parties in the 1872 presidential election. He was defeated by President Ulysses S. Grant, and died before the casting of the electoral vote. |
Horace Greeley |
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violent labour dispute between theCarnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6, 1892, in Homestead, Pennsylvania |
Homestead Strike |
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widespread railroadstrike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894. The federal government’s response to the unrest marked the first time that an injunction was used to break a strike |
Pullman Strike |
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was founded in 1867 to advance methods of agriculture, as well as to promote the social and economic needs of farmers in the United States. |
The Grange |
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landmark U.S. legislation establishing the tradition and mechanism of permanent federal employment based on merit rather than on political party affiliation |
Pendleton Civil Service Act |
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was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. |
Homestead Act |
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nickname given to members of African American cavalryregiments of the U.S. Army who served in the western United States from 1867 to 1896, mainly fighting Indians on the frontier. The nickname was given by the Indians, but its significance is uncertain. |
Buffalo Soldiers |
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battle at the River in Montana Territory, U.S., between federal troops led by Lieut. Col. George A. Custer and Northern Plains (Lakota [Teton or Western Sioux] and Northern Cheyenne) Indians led by Sitting Bull. Custer and all the men under his immediate command were slain. There were about 50 known deaths among Sitting Bull’s followers. |
Battle of the Little Bighorn |
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first legislation enacted by the United States Congress (1890) to curb concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition. It was named for U.S. Senator John Sherman of Ohio, who was an expert on the regulation of commerce.One of the act’s main provisions outlaws all combinations that restrain trade between states or with foreign nations. |
Sherman Antitrust Act |
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Helen Hunt Jackson's book aroused the nation's conscience and stimulated political action against injustice, in this case the nation's unjust treatment of Indians |
A Century of Dishonor |
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taught at Yale from 1872 to 1909, expounded in many essays his firm belief in laissez-faire, individual liberty, and the innate inequalities among men |
William Graham Sumner |
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adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians |
Dawes Act |
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was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." Protected women against exploitation from men. |
Women's Christian Temperance Union |
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was an atrocity in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory,[3] killing and mutilating an estimated 70–163Indians, about two-thirds of whom were women and children. |
Chivington Massacre |
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racial segregation state and local laws enacted after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States that continued in force until 1965 mandating de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern U.S. states (of the former Confederacy), starting in 1890 with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. |
Jim Crow Laws |
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On Dec. 29, 1890, more than 200 Sioux men, women, and children were massacred by U.S. troops; an episode that concluded the conquest of the North American Indian. |
Battle of Wounded Knee |
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educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and the most influential spokesman for black Americans between 1895 and 1915. He was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants, who were newly oppressed by disfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries |
Booker T Washington |
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American historian best known for the “frontier thesis.” which was the symbol of opportunity in America. The west was the "cradle of Americanism" It offered equality, freedom, independence, self-reliance, individual responsibility. |
Frederick Jackson Turner |
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was an American lecturer, writer, and political activist. She was an advocate of the suffrage movement as well as temperance but she was best known for her work with the Populist party |
Mary Elizabeth Lease |
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Giant cauldrons that created steel |
Bessemer Process |
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True to Roosevelt's progressive beliefs, the platform of the party called for major reforms including women's suffrage, social welfare assistance for women and children, farm relief, revisions in banking, health insurance in industries, and worker's compensation. The party also wanted an easier method to amend the constitution. |
Bull Moose Party |
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was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. |
Andrew Carnegie |
