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What was mined out of the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859?
silver
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Union that allowed only skilled workers to join
American Federation of Labor
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Negative name for wealthy industrialists during the 19th Century
Robber barrons
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Riot between workers and police in Chicago, bomb was thrown
Haymarket Square Riot
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Government takes a hands off approach to business
Laissez-faire
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Legislation passed by Congress that prevented special rates on railroads and required rates to be posted
Interstate Commerce Act
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Founder of Tuskegee Institute, vocational education to make money, whites see you as equals
Booker T. Washington
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Those who believed that a person’s wealth and success was dependent upon how hard they worked
Social Darwinists
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A person has the right to make as much money as possible, but should then give much of it away
Gospel of Wealth
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Womens group that sought to eliminate alcohol
Women's Christian Temperance Union
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Cross of Gold speech
William Jennings Bryan
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His writings and political cartoons exposed "Boss" Tweed
Thomas Nast
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Leader of the Stalwarts
Roscoe Conkling
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President responsible for patronage reform after Garfield’s death
Chester A. Arthur
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Was awarded the presidency as a result of the Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Time marked by governmental corruption, horrible working conditions, mass immigration, and wealthy industrialists
The Glided Age
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Creed that stated the South should industrialize, led by Henry Grady
"New South"
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First Billion dollar corporation
U.S Steel Company
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Bankers’ banker, loaned Cleveland and US government gold
J.P Morgan
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Sensational journalism used to attract readers and expose corruption
Sensationalism
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Jobs for votes
political machines, political bossism
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Seperate but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
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When the govenment stopped mining silver
Crime of 73
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Founder of the Grange (patrons of husbandry
Oliver Kelly
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Dominating competition by controlling all phases of an industry
vertical integration
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Author who was interested in women’s psychology and used women as central character
Henry James
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What is the term for a miner panning for gold in a creek bed?
placer mining
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When the mine busted, what was most likely to happen to the boom town that had grown up around the mine?
ghost towns
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What was necessary to carry on a big mining operation like sinking a shaft mine?
Mining companies or corporations
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Why was mining important in opening the west?
to eventually create permanent towns
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What was it called when cowboys walked the cows from the open range in Texas to meet the transcontinental railroad?
The Long Drive
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Who created the long drive and saw in it economic potential?
Joseph McCoy
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What was the inspiration for the American cowboy?
Spanish/Mexican vaquero
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What made the post Civil War cattle industry possible in the first place?
the transcontinental railroad
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What ended the open range cattle industry?
Droughts/ Blizzards in the terrible winter of 1887-1888
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Who invented barbed wire?
Joseph Glidden
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What did John Deere invent that allowed farmers on the plains to cut through thick prairie sod?
the steel plow
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Why did plains newcomers build homes out of sod?
lack of trees for wood
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What was the farming method called in which plows cut deeply into the soil to bring up moist earth to give crops water?
dry farming
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In the 1880’s, what was the problem that ended the big bonanza farms?
drought
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Who were the major members of the Populist Party?
farmers
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What was the issue of the election of 1896?
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The free coinage of silver to inflate the money supply and bring the farmer relief
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Who was the 1896 Populist candidate for President?
William Jennings Bryan
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What was the "Crime of ’73?"
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Silver was dropped from the Federal coinage list (silver would not be coined!)
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List 5 parts of the Populist platform.
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Government control of utilities, an income tax, the secret ballot, the free and unlimited coinage of silver, direct elections of Senators, government-sponsored savings banks
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What was the official name of the Grange?
The Patronges of Husbandry
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What farmer’s organization replaced the Grange?
The Alliances
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He and his followers marched on Washington, DC to ask Congress for a jobs stimulus program.
Jacob Coxey
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What law allowed western settlers acreage in exchange for living on it and farming it?
The Homestead Act of 1862
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In competition with world grain producers, what was a major problem faced by settlers on the Great Plains in the 1870’s?
the low market value of grain
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He published his frontier thesis in 1893, three years after the Federal Census Office issued its report on the closing of the frontier.
Frederick Jackson Turner - "The Turner Thesis"
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