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100 Cards in this Set
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Carpet Baggers
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Northerners who went south after the civil war
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Boss Tweed
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Corrupt NYC Boss
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George Pullman
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invented sleeping Railway car
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Tenant Farmers
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Former slaves
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Union General during the civil war and 18th president of U.S
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13th amendment
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free slaves
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14th amendment
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made all people born in the U.S citizens
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15th amendment
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gave African American men the right to vote
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Radical Republicans
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Wanted to punish the South for starting the civil war
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Scalawags
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Southerners who took advantage of the south during reconstruction
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Ku Klux Klan
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used intimidation to prevent freed slaves from exercising their rights
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Poll Tax
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Pay a tax every time you vote
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Literacy tests
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pass a reading test to vote
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Grandfather Clause
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if you or your grandfather voted in the election of 1867 then you were exempt from poll tax or literacy tests
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Chief Joseph
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leader of New Perce tribe said “I will fight no more” accepted life in the reservation
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Homestead Act
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Gave 160- acres of land to anyone who farmed it for 5 years
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Dawes Act
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tried to make Native Americans farmers
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Black Codes
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laws passed in the south to keep freed slaves from becoming full member of the society
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Closing the Frontier
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April 12
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New Immigrants
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from Poland. Czechoslovakia. Italy. Greece
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Old Immigrants
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from Great Britain. Scotland. Germany
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Battle of Little Big Horn
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Last native American victory over the U.S government
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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19th president
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Sherman Anti Trust Act
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Outlawed monopolies
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Monopoly
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One company almost all or all of a business
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John D. Rockefeller
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became wealthy in oil
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Muckbreakers
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People who expose corruption in big businesses and government
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George Armstrong Custer
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Lost to Sioux at the battle of little big horn
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Joseph Glidden
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Invented barbed wire
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Yellow Journalism
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Sensational Journalism
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Results of the Spanish American war
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U.S received Puerto Rico
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Robber Barens
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Individuals who form big business that took advantage of situations and formed trusts monopolies
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William Randolph Hearst
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Publisher of NY Journal
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American Imperialism
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U.S spread its influence to China
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Chinese exclusion act
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didn’t permit Chinese immigration to U.S
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Lessez faire capitalism
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based upon supply and demand in a free market economy
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Immigrants V.S Labor Unions
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labor viewed immigrants as taking away jobs
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Orville and Wilber Wright
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invented airplane
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Andrew Johnson
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Vice president to Lincoln
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Grover Cleveland
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22nd and 24th president
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Andrew Carnegie
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wealth from steel
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Pendleton Act
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allowed the government to appoint people to jobs based on a test (Civil Service)
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James Garfield
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20th president
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Tariff
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tax on foreign goods
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Proprietorship
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Business owned by one person
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Partnership
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Business owned by two or more people
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Urban Life: Disease
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unsanitary
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Thomas Edison: invented
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light bulb
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Populists: Wanted income tax
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direct elections of Senators
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Factory conditions: unsafe
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poor ventilation
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Haymarket Riot: someone threw a bomb into a crowded meeting
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killing Union members and policemen
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Problems affecting Plains farmers: Cold winter
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Hot Summers
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Corporation
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Business made up of millions of share holders
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Sodbuster
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name given to plains farmers who made their homes from sod
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Sitting Bull
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Sioux medicine man defeated Custer
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Crazy Horse
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Sioux chief defeated Custer
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Roughriders
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Teddy Roosevelt’s regiment in the Spanish American war
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Junction
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court order to d or not to something
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Fredrick Olmstead law
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Designed central park NYC
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J.P Morgan
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Most influential banker of the 19th century
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Thomas Dewey
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Defeated Spanish at the battle of Manila in the Spanish American war
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William McKinley
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25th president during Spanish American war
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Jane Adams
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established hull house in Chicago to help the poor
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Cornelius Vanderbelt
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Made his wealth un Railroads NY central
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Uriah Stephens
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Began knights of labor
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American Federation of labor
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Only made up of skilled workers
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Terrance Powderly
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Most influential leader of the Knights of Labor
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Knights of Labor
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America’s first labor union
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Samuel Gompers
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Began American federation of labor
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Eugene V. Debs
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Head of the brotherhood of Railroad workers
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Jacob Riis
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Wrote “How the other half lives” l
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Charles Goodyear
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Vulcanized Rubber
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Urban Life
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Disease
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Thomas Edison
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invented
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Gustavus Swift
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Refrigerated railway car
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Invented telephone
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Social Darwinism
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Applied Darwin’s theory of Survival of the fittest to Society
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Grange Movement
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Organization of Farmers who worked together to improve their economic life.
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Philanthropist
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a wealthy person who gives away jis money to worthy causes
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Factory conditions
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unsafe, poor ventilation, windowless, monotonous
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Haymarket Riot
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someone threw a bomb into a crowded meeting
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Great Plains
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flat land between Mississippi river and Rocky mountains
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Indian Wars 1860 – 1890
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Wars between plain settlers and native Americans
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San Juan Hill
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Teddy Roosevelt and Roush Riders victory in the Spanish American war
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Trusts
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Same board of directors control many companies
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Clayton Anti Trust Act
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Outlawed trusts
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Sharecroppers
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Farmers who shared a portion of their crops s payment for using the land
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Chester A. Arthur
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21st president
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Freedman’s Bureau
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Set up after the civil war to help former slaves adjust to freedom
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Leader of the Rough riders in the Spanish American war
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Ida Tarbul
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A muck breaker
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George Westinghouse
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invented the airbrake for Trains
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Problems affecting Plains farmers
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Cold winter. Hot Summers. Thick sod. Violent weather. lack of trees and grasshoppers
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Big business and farmers
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took advantage of farmers and especially railroads
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Open door Policy
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anyone can trade with China
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Big Stick Policy
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Teddy Roosevelt’s Policy concerning Latin America
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Panama Canal
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Built by Roosevelt connecting the Atlantic and pacific oceans
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Temperance movement
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wanted to stop the sale and production of alcohol
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Booker T. Washington
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established the Tuskegee University to teach practical skills to African Americans
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George Washington Carver
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Invented Peanut butter and worked in developing uses fir peanuts
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