Us History Unit 7

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Boss Tweed

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Heavyweight New York political boss whose widespread fraud landed him in jail in 1871.

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Jim Fisk

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Bold and unprincipled financier whose plot to corner the US gold market nearly succeeded in 1869.

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Winner of the contested 1876 election who presided over the end of Reconstruction and a sharp economic downturn.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Great military leader whose presidency foundered in corruption and political ineptitude.

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Jim Crow

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Term for the racial secregation laws imposed in the 1890s.

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William Jennings Bryan

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Eloquent young Congressman from Nebraska who became the most prominent advocate of "free silver" in the early 1890s.

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James Garfield

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President whose assassination after only a few months in office spurred the passage of a civil-service law.

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Denis Kearney

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Irish born leader of the anti-Chinese movement in California.

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Tom Watson

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Radical Populist leader whose early success turned sour, and who then became a vicious racist.

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Jay Cooke

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Wealthy New York financier whose bank collapse in 1873 set off an economic depression.

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Roscoe Conkling

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Imperious New York senator and leader of the "Stalwart" faction of Republicans.

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Grover CLeveland

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First Democaratic president since the Civil War; defender of laissez-faire economics and low tariffs.

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J. P. Morgan

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Enormously wealthy banker whose secret bailout of the federal government in 1895 aroused fierce public anger.

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Horave Greeley

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Colorful, eccentric newspaper editor who carried the Liberal Republican and Democratic banners against Grant in 1872.

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James G. Blaine

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Charming byt corrupt "Half-Breed" Republican senator and presidential nominee in 1884.

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Thomas Edison

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Inventive genius of industrialization who worked on devices such as the electrical light, the photograph, and the motion picture.

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J. Pierpont Morgan

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The only businessperson in America wealthy enough to but out Andrew Caregie and organize the United States Steel Corporation

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John P. Altgeld

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Illinois governor who pardoned the Haymarket anarchists.

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Henry Grady

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Southern newspaper editor who tirelessly promoted industrialization as the salvation of the economically backward South.

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John D. Rockefeller

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ASggressive energy-industry monopolist who used tough means to build a trust based on "horizontal intergration".

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Charles Dana Gibson

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Magazine illustrator who created a romantic image of the new, independant woman.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Aggressive eastern railroad builder and consolidator who scorned the law as an obstacle to his enterprise.

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Russell Conwell

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Pro-business clergyman whose "Ares of Diamonds" speeches critized the poor.

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Andrew Carnegie

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Scottish immigrant who organized a vast new industry on the priciple of "vertical intergration".

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Leland Stanford

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Former California governer and organizer of the Central Pacific Railroad.

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Samual Gompers

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Organizer of a conservative craft-union group and advocate of "more" wages for skilled workers.

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Terence V. Powderly

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Eloquent leader of a secretive labor organization that made substatial gains in the 1880s before it suddenly collapsed.

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James J. Hill

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Public-spirited railroad builder who assisted farmers in the northern areas served by his rail lines.

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Haymarket Square

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Site of bombing, during a labor demonstration, that aroused public hysteria against strikes.

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Former teacher of the deaf whose invention created an entire new industry.

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Henry George

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Controversial reformer whose book "Progress and Poverty" advocated solving problems of economic inequality by tax on land.

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Mark Twain.

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MIcwestern-born writer and lecturer who created a new style of American literature based on social realism and humor.

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Mary Cassatt.

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American painter whose sensitive portrayals made her one of the prominent new impressionists.

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Mary Baker Eddy.

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Author and founder of a popular new religion based on priciples of spiritual healing.

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Walter Rauschenbusch.

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Leading Protestant advocate of the "social gospel" who tried to make Christianity relevant to urban and industrial problems.

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Booker T. Washington.

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Former slave who promoted industrial education and economic opportunity but not social equality for blacks.

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William James.

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Harvard student who made original controbutions to modern psychology and philosophy.

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Victoria Woodhull.

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Radical feminist propagandist whose eloquent attacks on conventional social morality shocked many Americans in the late 1870s.

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Charlotte Perkins.

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Brilliant feminist writer who advocated cooperative cooking and child-care arrangements to promote women's economic independence and equality

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Jane Addams.

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Leading social reformer who lived with the poor in the slums and pioneered new forms of activism for women.

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Anthony Comstock.

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Vigorous nineteenth-century crusader for sexual "purity" who used federal law to enforce his moral views.

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W.E.B. Du Bois.

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Harvard-educated scholar and advocate of full black social and economic equality through the leadership of a "talented tenth"

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Louis Sullivan.

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Chicago-based architech whose high-rise innovation allowed more people to crowd into limited urban space.

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Dwight L. Moody.

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Popular evangelical precher who brought the tradition of old-time revivalism to the industrial city.

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Emily Dickinson.

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Gifted but isolated New England poet, the bulk of whose works were not published until after her death