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29 Cards in this Set
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Barbed Wire
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Helped to end the open frontier
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Populism
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A political movement for the people
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Merger
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Combining 2 companies for bigger profit
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Bessemer Process
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Removing carbon from iron to make steel
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Morrill Act
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Set upb agricultural colleges and land grant universities
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Homestead Act
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160 acres of land if you farm it
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Exoduster
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African American settlers out west
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Credit Mobilier
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Construction Company used by railroads to steal money
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Graft
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Using political imfluence for personal gain
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Horizontal Integration
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Buying out your competition
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Invented the telephone
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Sherman Anti-Trust act
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failed to break up the trusts
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Pre-Union conditions
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12- 16 hour work day
dangerous working conditions |
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James Garfield
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assassinated for his belief in civil service
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Grover Cleveland
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only president elected to 2 non-consecutive terms
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nativists
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People who hated immigrants
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Boss Tweed
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Ran Tamany Hall
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John Rockefeller
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made a monopoly in the oil business
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Vertical Integration
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Buying out the means of production and delivery to the consumer
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Christopher Shoals
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Invented the typewriter
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Angel Island
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Asian immigrants entered America through this place
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Sitting Bull
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Spiritual Leader of the Siouz Nation at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
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Andrew Carnegie
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cornered the market in the steel business
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Political Machine
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organization that controlled the politics of a city or state
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tenements
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cramped urban housing where most immigrants were forced to live
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Horatio Alger
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Wrote "rags to riches" novels that were very popular
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Laissez Faire
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"Hands-Off", no govenment influence on business
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Effects of the Railroad on society in the late 19th century
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*shortened travel time
*Time zones *Cities formed at RR *More people traveled west |
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Social Darwinism
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Natural Selection amongst humans
*Let Robber Barons make money and no government interference *Poor people and working class are on the bottom - taken advantage of |
