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61 Cards in this Set
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Age of Industry |
brought new invention, agriculture, transportation, and industry as well as growth |
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entrepreneur |
one who risks personal loss to develop and market a new product |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
invented the telephone in 1876 and received a patent for it |
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Thomas Watson |
assisted in the invention of the telephone; owned a shop |
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Thomas Alva Edison |
developed the first successful incandescent light bulb; greatest inventor America has ever produced |
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George Washington Carver |
worked his own invention factory; transformed Southern agriculture; found many uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes |
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First Transcontinental Railroad |
meeting point was at Promontory Point; brought unity |
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John Roebling |
pioneered the design of suspension bridges in the US |
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Brooklyn Bridge |
in NYC; connects Manhattan and Brooklyn; first steel wire suspension bridge |
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skyscrapers |
the solution was to build up instead of out |
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Chicago, Illinois |
the first skyscraper was built there; there was a fire that destroyed the city but it was rebuilt to be the first center of skyscraper architecture |
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Wainwright Building |
1st modern American skyscraper; had 10 stories |
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Empire State Building |
102 stories; in NYC |
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John Hopkins Medical School |
opened in 1893 and began the idea of medical research |
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Providence Hospital |
the first interracial hospital in the US; established by Daniel Hale Williams |
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Andrew Carnegie |
became the worlds greatest builder of free public libraries |
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Sir Henry Bessemer |
developed an inexpensive method of turning iron ore into steel; one of the wealthiest men in the world |
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Carnegie Steel Company |
became the largest manufacturer of steel in the world |
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philanthropy |
giving away large sums of money to needy individuals and private charities |
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John Davison Rockefeller |
formed the Standard Oil Company and became the wealthiest man in America |
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Standard Oil Company |
formed a worldwide network of oil pipelines, refineries and marketing outlets |
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Union Oil Company of California |
largest independent oil company on the West Coast |
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immigrants |
from 1865 to 1914 the US welcomed about 25 million immigrants |
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Dwight L. Moody |
an evangelist; was the President of the YMCA; founded the Moody Bible Institute for the advanced training of Christian workers |
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Statue of Liberty |
given to the US by France as a gift; dedicated in 1886; completed during Grover Cleveland's 1st term |
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Mel Trotter |
founded 67 rescue missions one of which was the Salvation Army |
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The Salvation Army |
helped the homeless and needy |
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social workers |
those who were concerned with improving political and economic conditions |
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Sheldon Jackson |
took the gospel to Alaska, and set up a public school system there |
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great plains |
last great expanse of land to be settled in the US |
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Bison Disappearing |
because 1)settlement 2)wasteful shooting 3)competition for grasslands with other animals |
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Sitting Bull |
claimed the Great Spirit had warned him the white men were hurting them and they need to kill or they will die |
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Dawes Act |
offered land and US citizenship to any head of an Indian family who would take up farming or ranching |
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reservations |
lands set aside by the government for Indian settlement |
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Homestead Act |
opened the Great Plains for settlement |
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Exodus of 1879 |
Freedman from the South came to the Great Plains in this movement |
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Joseph Glidden |
came up with the idea of barbed wire |
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Colorado |
joined the US in 1876 on America's 100th birthday |
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1890 |
revealed that the frontier was officially settled |
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Oliver H. Kelly |
employee who set up Granger Laws; failed to make profit and closed down |
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inflation |
rapid increase of prices |
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James A. Garfield |
served as a president for 4 months and then was shot |
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Pendleton Civil Service Act |
provided for competitive examination for civil service workers |
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Standard time zones |
In 1883, the US was divided into standard time zones used to help railroads keep orderly schedules |
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Sherman antitrust act |
Broke up large companies; set a pattern for government regulation of American businesses |
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Injunction |
A court order |
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Segregation |
The separation of blacks and whites; it was made illegal; it meant separate but equal |
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Lynching |
Hanging out with victim by a mob; went unpunished |
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Grover Cleveland |
He was the first democrat to win the presidency after the civil war |
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Washington Monument |
Completed during Cleveland's first term; located in Washington DC |
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Trade unions |
Provide workers with opportunities to meet and discuss working conditions and wages |
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General Benjamin Harrison |
23rd president; six Western states were added during his presidency |
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New western states |
Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming |
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Wyoming |
First state to grant woman full political privileges |
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Platform |
A listing of a political party's beliefs |
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Initiative |
Process by which voters in a state can send a petition and propose a law without waiting for the legislature |
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Referendum |
Referring to a proposed law directly to the voters |
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The Atlanta compromise |
A speech given by Booker T. Washington in Atlanta Georgia expressing that black Americans should achieve economic equality first |
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The Atlanta compromise |
A speech given by Booker T. Washington in Atlanta Georgia expressing that black Americans should achieve economic equality first |
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William Jennings Bryan |
Ran as a Democrat; didn't win but he was one of the greatest orators (public speakers) in American history |
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Gold standard act |
it made gold the only standard for money value |
