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38 Cards in this Set
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Sitting Bull |
Led native American resistance against U.S. government |
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Thomas Esison |
Credited with invention of the lightbulb |
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Wright Brothers |
Credited with invention of the airplane |
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John D. Rockefeller |
Monopoly of the oil industry |
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Jacob Riis |
•wrote "how thw other half lives" •exposed poverty, filth, and obercepwdedness in cities |
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Henry Ford |
Perfected the system of the assembly line to mass produce the automobile |
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Joseph Pulitzer |
Used yellow journalism to create the first modern, mass circulated news paper |
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W. E. B. Dubois |
Civil rights leader |
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William Tweed |
Corrupt politician in New York city Corrupt politician in New York city |
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William H. Taft |
•Trustbuster President •Dollar diplomacy •Got stuck in white house bathtub |
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Segregation |
Separation of blacks and whites |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
Credited of invention of the telephone |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Monopoly of the steel industry |
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J.P. Morgan |
Made his money from banking |
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Upton Sinclair (he) |
•wrote "The Jungle" •exposed umsafe and dirty working conditions in the meat industry |
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Carrie Chapman Catt |
Took over the women's rights movement heading into the 1900's |
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George Eastman |
Introduced a cheaper, easier way to own a camera // light weight camera |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
•Progressive President •trustbuster •square deal |
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Jim Crow Laws |
Made segregation legal |
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Dawes Act |
Have Native Americans land in exchange for their assimilation |
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Homestead Act |
Gave 150 acres of land to anyone willing to move West and farm it |
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Monopoly |
When one person or business controls an entire market |
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Sherman Antitrust Act |
Made monopolies illegal |
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Dollar Diplomacy |
Investing money into other countries to keep relationships going positive |
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Cattle Drive |
Getting cattle North to the train to ship to market |
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Mass Production |
Prodicing alot of product |
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Urbanization |
Growing of cities |
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Ellis Island / Angel Island |
Check points for immigrants |
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Reform |
Change for the better |
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Muchraker |
Individual who exposed problems of the U.S. in the early 1900's |
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19th Amendment |
Gave women the right to vote |
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Square Deal |
Roosevelt's policy -consumers -workers -conservation -big business |
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Transcontinental Railroad |
•connected east to west •Made travel faster •shipment of goods easier |
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Industrial Revolution |
•more factories •more products •more jobs |
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
Fire that showed working conditions were dangerous |
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Immigration |
People coming to your country from another country |
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Yellow Journalism |
•new style of reporting the news •makes it more appealing to reader -bold words -pictures -strech the truth |
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Interstate commerce |
Trade across the country |
