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51 Cards in this Set
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Gilded Age
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Mark Twain called the Industrial Age the____
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D. L. Moody
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an evangelist who was a Boston shoe salesman
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Sankey
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traveled and worked with D. L. Moody
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Sam Jones
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known as the "Moody of the South"
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Chapman
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Presbyterian evangelist who held meetings around the world
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Mel Trotter
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founded 67 rescue missions
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William Booth
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founded the Salvation Army
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Jane Adams
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founded a settlement known as the Hull House
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Sheldon Jackson
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One of the most active home missionaries who took the gospel to Alaska
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Jesse James
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noted train robber
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Wyatt Earp
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sheriff of Dodge County
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Battle of O. K. Corral
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the shootout at Tombstone, Arizona
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Black Hills
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the land the Sioux Indians lived in
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Crazy Horse
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attacked and killed General Custer and his men
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Geronimo
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surrendered the last great Indian battle that came about as a result of the Ghost Dance ritual
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Dawes Act
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offered land and U.S. citizenship to any head of and Indian family who would take up farming or ranching
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Homestead Act
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opened the Great Plains for settlement
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sod houses
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the kind of home that settlers most often lived in
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Joseph Glidden
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the man that came up with the idea of spinning steel strands into barbed wire for fences
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Comstock Lode
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proved to be one of the richest silver mines in the West
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Virginia City
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the silver-mining capital of the world
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Oliver Kelly
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founded the organization known as the Grange
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cooperatives
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Grangers organized businesses to try to help farmers manage their money
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inflation
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rapid increase of prices caused by a change in the distribution of money
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greenbacks
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paper money
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Greenback Labor Party
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formed to try to keep the greenbacks in circulation
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
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made it so people could not get into a government position without a competitive examination
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Grover Cleveland
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first Democrat to win the Presidency after the Civil War
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Samuel Gompers
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organized the first successful national labor union called the American Federation of Labor
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Interstate Commerce Act
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set up the Interstate Commerce Commission which regulated the shipping rates charged by the railroads
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Johnstown flood
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one of the worst natural disasters in American history
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Wyoming
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the first state admitted to the Union to grant women full political privileges
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free silver movement
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the center piece of the Populist Party
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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broke up large companies
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Grover Cleveland
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the only President to serve two terms not in direct succession to each other
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Pleasy V. Ferguson
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in what court battle did they declare that racial segregation was legal
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Atlanta Compromise
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the speech Booker T. Washington gave on how the blacks could change their treatment
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William McKinley
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Ohio governor who favored the gold standard
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Louisa May Alcott
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wrote Little Woman and other works that taught the importance of moral living and family
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General Lew Wallace
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wrote Ben Hur
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Ben Hur
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most popular novel in the late 19th century
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Charles M. Sheldon
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wrote In His Steps
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Emily Dickenson
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wrote many untitled poems that were not published until long after her death
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Walt Whitman
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wrote O Captain my Captain
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James Whitcomb Riley
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became known as "the Hoosier poet" and "the poet of common people"
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naturalist writers
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evolutionary writers
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Frederic Remington
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became known for his paintings, drawings, and bronze sculptures of cowboys and Indians
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Currier and Ives
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made prints that provided a pictorial record of American life in the 19th century
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John Philip Sousa
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a band master who became known as the "march king"
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Ira Sankey
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wrote "There Were Ninety and Nine"
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Fanny Crosby
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wrote "Blessed Assurance"
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