The Gilded Age: Important People, Places, Facts

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William Jennings Bryan

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Three-time presidential nominee, who ran against McKinley on a platform advocating free coinage of silver

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Andrew Carnegie

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Industrialist who dominated the new steel industry

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Comstock Lode

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Nevada site of very rich silver mines

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Commodore George Dewey

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Commander of the U.S. naval forces that destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay

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Lt. Colonel George Custer

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American military commander who led troops massacred at Little Big Horn

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Dawes Act of 1887

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Broke up tribal lands into 160-acre plots, which were distributed among individual Indians

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Joseph Glidden

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Inventor of barbed wire, which led to the enclosure of land on the open range

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Samuel Gompers

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Leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

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Great American Desert

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The last western frontier, the Great American Plains

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Homestead Act of 1862

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Promised U.S. settlers 160 acres of public land in the West if they lived on it for five years and paid a small fee

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Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill

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American victory in Cuba

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Oliver Hudson Kelley

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Founder of the Grange, a political and social organization for farmers

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Ku Klux Klan

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Anti-African American and anti-Semitic organization

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Major General Nelson Miles

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Commander of the U.S. armed forces in Cuba during the Spanish-American War

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William Randolph Hearst

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Proponent of yellow journalism

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John D. Rockefeller

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President of Standard Oil Company

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Teddy Roosevelt

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Member of the U.S. First Volunteer Cavalry during the Spanish-American War

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Philippines

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Location of an insurrection led by nationalist guerillas after the Spanish-American War

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Puerto Rico

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A U.S. possession in the Caribbean after 1898

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Sitting Bull

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Lakota chief who eventually joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show