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Social Gospel
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social Gospel | a Protestant Christian movement from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that applied Christian ethics to social problems like poverty, inequality, and child labor |
| Special Field Order No.15 | a military directive issued by Union General William T. Sherman on January 16, 1865, that redistributed confiscated coastal land to newly freed Black families |
| Specie Payment Resumption Act of 1875 | was a U.S. federal law that put the country back on the gold standard and stopped the use of unbacked paper money |
| Stalwarts | Stalwarts are loyal, strongly built, and dependable supporters, or historically, a 19th-century faction of the U.S. Republican Party |
| Standard Oil Company | a dominant American petroleum empire and corporate trust founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, and partners |
| Swing around the Circle | disastrous 1866 speaking tour by U.S. President Andrew Johnson to gain public support for his lenient Reconstruction policies ahead of the midterm elections |
| Tammany Hall | a powerful New York City Democratic Party political machine that dominated local politics from the late 1700s to the 1960s |
| Texas v. White (1868) | a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case establishing that the United States is an indestructible union and states cannot unilaterally secede |
| Awakening The, by Kate Chopin | a 1899 novel about a married woman's journey toward sexual, artistic, and personal independence in the American South |
| Great South, The by Edward King | an 1875 travel and social commentary book written by American journalist Edward King. |