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Chapters 22-26

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show Find lost family members or seek new economic opportunities.  
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show Food, clothes, and education for emancipated slaves  
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show 10% of its voters took an oath of allegiance to the Union and pledged to abide by emancipation.  
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The Black Codes passed by many of the Southern state governments in 1865 aimed to...   show
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show A decisive defeat for Johnson and a veto-proof Republican Congress  
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show Favored states' rights and opposed direct federal involvement in individuals' lives  
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show Southern states give blacks the vote as a condition of readmittance to the Union  
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show Full citizenship and civil rights for former slaves  
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show Voting rights for former slaves  
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Women's-rights leaders opposed the 14th and 15th Amendments because...   show
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The right to vote encouraged southern black men to...   show
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The radical Reconstruction regimes in the Southern states included...   show
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show Former Union soldiers, businessmen, or professionals  
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The radical Republicans' impeachment of President Andrew Johnson resulted in...   show
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The skeptical public finally accepted Seward's purchase of Alaska because...   show
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Common term for the blacks newly liberated from slavery   show
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Federal agency that greatly assisted blacks educationally but failed in other aid efforts   show
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The largest African American denomination after slavery   show
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show 10% Plan  
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The constitutional amendment freeing all slaves   show
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The harsh Southern state laws of 1865 that limited black rights and imposed restrictions to ensure a stable black labor supply   show
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The constitutional amendment granting civil rights to freed slaves and barring former Confederates from office   show
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show Moderates  
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Republican Reconstructionists who favored keeping the South out of the federal government until a complete social and economic revolution was accomplished in the region   show
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show Union League  
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show Ex Parte Milligan  
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Derogatory term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Republican Reconstruction governments   show
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show Carpetbaggers  
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Constitutional amendment guaranteeing blacks the right to vote   show
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show Alaska  
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A constitutionally questionable law whose violation by President Johnson formed the basis for his impeachment   show
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show Civil Rights Bill of 1866  
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show Andrew Johnson  
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show William Seward  
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Laws designed to stamp out Ku Klux Klan terrorism in the South   show
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Black Republican senator from Mississippi during Reconstruction   show
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show Ku Klux Klan  
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show Exodusters  
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show Military Reconstruction Act of 1867  
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show Charles Sumner  
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show Oliver O. Howard  
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show Union League  
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show Abraham Lincoln  
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The president pro tempore of the Senate who hoped to become president of the United States after Johnson's impeachment conviction   show
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Leader of radical Republicans in the House of Representatives   show
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Cause: The South's military defeat in the Civil War   show
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Cause: The Freedmen's Bureau   show
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show Effect: Imposed slaverylike restrictions on blacks and angered the North  
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show Effect: Prompted Republicans to refuse to seat Southern delegations in Congress  
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Cause: Johnson's "swing around the circle" in the election of 1866   show
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show Effect: Forced all the Southern states to establish governments that upheld black voting and other civil rights  
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show Effect: Engaged in some corruption but also enacted many valuable social reforms  
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show Effect: Intimidated black voters and tried to keep blacks "in their place"  
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Cause: The radical Republicans' hatred of Johnson   show
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show Effect: Embittered white Southerners while doing little to really help blacks  
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Financiers Jim Fisk and Jay Gould tried to involve the Grant administration in a corrupt scheme to...   show
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show The journalistic exposes of The New York Times and cartoonist Thomas Nast  
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show Railroad corporation fraud and the subsequent bribery of congressmen  
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show His toleration of corruption and loyalty to crooked friends  
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show Inflation of the money supply by issuing more paper or silver currency  
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show Strong party loyalties, high voter turnout, and few disagreements on national issues  
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The primary goal for which all factions in both political parties contended during the Gilded Age was...   show
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The key tradeoff featured in the Compromise of 1877 was that...   show
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show False  
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show The system of unequal segregation between the races  
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The great railroad strike of 1877 revealed...   show
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The final result of the widespread anti-Chinese agitation in the West was...   show
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show A mentally unstable disappointed office seeker  
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In its first years, the Populist Party advocated, among other things...   show
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show Borrowed $65 million from JP Morgan and other bankers in order to save the monetary gold standard  
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show (Waving the) Bloody Shirt  
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show Credit Mobilier  
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show Liberal Republican Party  
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show Silver  
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"Soft money" third party that pulled over a million votes and elected 14 congressmen in 1878 by advocating inflation   show
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Mark Twain's sarcastic name for the post-Civil War era, which emphasized its atmosphere of greed and corruption   show
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show Grand Army of the Republic  
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show Stalwarts  
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show Half-Breeds  
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The complex political agreement between Republicans and Democrats that resolved the bitterly disputed election of 1876   show
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show Chinese  
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show Civil Service  
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show McKinley Tariff  
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Insurgent political party that gained widespread support among farmers in the 1890s   show
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Notorious clause in southern voting laws that exempted from literary tests and poll taxes anyone whose ancestors had voted in 1860, thereby excluding blacks   show
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Great military leader whose presidency foundered in corruption and political ineptitude   show
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Bold and unprincipled financier whose plot to corner the US gold market nearly succeeded in 1869   show
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show Boss Tweed  
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show Horace Greeley  
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show Jay Cooke  
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show Denis Kearney  
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show Tom Watson  
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show Roscoe Conkling  
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show James G. Blaine  
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show Rutherford B. Hayes  
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show James Garfield  
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show Jim Crow  
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show Grover Cleveland  
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Eloquent young Congressman from Nebraska who became the most prominent advocate of "free silver" in the early 1890s   show
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Enormously wealthy banker whose secret bailout of the federal government in 1895 aroused fierce public anger   show
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show Effect: Caused numerous scandals during President Grant's administration  
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Cause: The New York Times and cartoonist Thomas Nest   show
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show Effect: Led to the formation of the Liberal Republican party in 1872  
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Cause: The economic crash of the mid-1870s   show
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Cause: Local cultural, moral, and religious differences   show
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show Effect: Led to the withdrawal of troops from the South and the virtual end of federal reconstruction  
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show Effect: Caused anti-Chinese violence and restrictions against Chinese immigration  
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show Effect: Helped ensure passage of the Pendleton Act  
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The 1890s depression and the drain of gold from the federal treasury   show
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show Effect: Led to failure of the third party revolt in the South and a growing racial backlash  
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show Providing free grants of federal land to the railroad companies  
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show James J. Hill  
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The railroad most significantly stimulated American industrialization by...   show
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show Stock watering and bribery of public officials  
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The railroads affected even the organization of time in the United States by...   show
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show The Interstate Commerce Act  
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show Serving as the middleman between American industrialists and foreign governments  
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Two late-19th century technological inventions that especially drew women out of the home and into the workforce were...   show
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Andrew Carnegie's industrial system of "vertical integration" involved...   show
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The large trusts like Standard Oil and Swift and Armour justified their economic domination of their industries by claiming that...   show
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The oil industry first thrived in the late 1880s by producing...   show
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show Those who acquired great wealth were morally responsible to use it for the public good  
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show The South was discriminated against and held down as a supplier of raw materials to northern industry  
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show A long-term rise in the standard of living but a loss of independence and control of work  
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show Concentrating on improving wages and hours and avoiding general social reform  
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show Land grants  
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show Union Pacific Railroad  
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show Central Pacific Railroad  
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show Great Northern Railroad  
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Dishonest device by which railroad promoters artificially inflated the price of their stocks and bonds   show
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Supreme Court case of 1886 that prevented states from regulating railroads or other forms of interstate commerce   show
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Federal regulatory agency often used by rail companies to stabilize the industry and prevent ruinous competition   show
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Late 19th century invention that revolutionized communication and created a large new industry that relied heavily on female workers   show
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First of the great industrial trusts, organized through a principle of "horizontal integration" that ruthlessly incorporated or destroyed competitors   show
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show United States Steel Corporation  
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show New South  
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Black labor organization that briefly flourished in the late 1860s   show
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Secret, ritualistic labor organization that enrolled many skilled and unskilled workers but collapsed suddenly after the Haymarket Square bombing   show
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Skilled labor organization, such as those of carpenters and printers, that were most successful in conducting strikes and raising wages   show
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The conservative labor group that successfully organized a minority of American workers but left others out   show
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Former California governor and organizer of the Central Pacific Railroad   show
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show Russell Conwell  
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show James J. Hill  
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show Cornelius Vanderbilt  
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Magazine illustrator who created a romantic of the new, independent woman   show
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Former teacher of the deaf whose invention created an entire new industry   show
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Inventive genius of industrialization who worked on devices such as the electric light, the phonograph, and the motion picture   show
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show Andrew Carnegie  
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show John D. Rockefeller  
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show J. Pierpont Morgan  
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show Henry Grady  
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show Terence V. Powderly  
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show William Graham Sumner  
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Illinois governor who pardoned the Haymarket anarchists   show
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Organizer of a conservative craft-union group and advocate of "more" wages for skilled workers   show
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Cause: Federal land grants and subsidies   show
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show Effect: Stimulated the growth of a huge unified national market for American manufactured goods  
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show Created a public demand for railroad regulation, such as the Interstate Commerce Act  
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show Laid the technological basis for huge new industries and spectacular economic growth  
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show Eliminated competition and created monopolistic "trusts" in many industries  
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show Fostered growing class divisions and public demands for restraints on corporate trusts  
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show Kept the South in economic dependency as a poverty-stricken supplier of farm products and raw materials to the Northeast  
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Cause: The growing mechanization and depersonalization of factory work   show
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show Helped destroy the Knights of Labor and increased public fear of labor agitation  
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show Created a strong but narrowly based union organization  
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The new cities' glittering consumer economy was symbolized especially by the rise of...   show
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show Disposing of large quantities of consumer-generated waste material  
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show The electric trolley and the skyscraper  
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show Poland and Italy  
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Among the factors driving millions of European peasants from their homeland to American were...   show
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show Antisweatshop laws to protect women and child laborers  
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show Chinese  
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show Jews and Roman Catholics  
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show The efforts of some Christian reformers to apply their religious beliefs to new social problems  
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show The cities offered new challenges and opportunities for women  
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show The biological ideas of Charles Darwin  
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Unlike Booker T. Washington, WEB Du Bois (the smoke king) (he is black) advocated...   show
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In the late 19th century, American colleges and universities benefited especially from...   show
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American social reformers like Henry George and Edward Bellamy advocated...   show
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Authors like Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Jack London turned American literature toward a greater concern with...   show
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show Dumbbell tenement  
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show New Immigration  
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show Birds of passage  
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show Social gospel  
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Settlement house in the Chicago slums that became a model for women's involvement in urban social reform   show
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show Social work  
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show American Protective Association  
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show Roman Catholicism  
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Black educational institution founded by Booker T. Washington to provide training in agriculture and crafts   show
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show National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)  
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Henry George's best selling book that advocated social reform through the imposition of a "single tax" on land   show
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show Comstock Law  
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show Women and Economics  
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Organization formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others to promote the vote for women   show
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show Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)  
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Chicago-based architect whose high-rise   show
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show Walter Rauschenbusch  
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show Jane Addams  
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Popular evangelical preacher who brought the tradition of old-time revivalism to the industrial city   show
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Author and founder of a popular new religion based on principles of spiritual healing   show
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show Booker T. Washington  
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Harvard-educated scholar and advocate of full black social and economic equality through the leadership of a "talented tenth"   show
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show William James  
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Controversial reformer whose book Progress and Poverty advocated solving problems of economic inequality by a tax on land   show
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Gifted but isolated New England poet, the bulk of whose works were not published until after her death   show
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show Mark Twain  
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show Victoria Woodhull  
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show Anthony Comstock  
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Brilliant feminist writer who advocated cooperative cooking and child-care arrangements to promote women's economic independence and equality   show
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Well-connected and socially prominent historian who feared modern trends and sought relief in the beauty and culture of the past   show
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Cause: New industrial jobs and urban excitement   show
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Cause: Uncontrolled rapid growth and the "New Immigration" from Europe   show
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show Helped uproot European peasants from their ancestral lands and sent them seeking new opportunities in America and elsewhere  
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Cause: The cultural strangeness and poverty of southern and eastern European immigrants   show
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show Assisted immigrants and other slum dwellers and pricked middle-class consciences about urban problems  
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Cause: Darwinian science and growing urban materialism   show
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show Supported the substantial improvements in American undergraduate and graduate education in the late 19th century  
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Cause: Popular newspapers and "yellow journalism"   show
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Cause: Changes in moral and sexual attitudes   show
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Cause: The difficulties of family life in the industrial city   show
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show Repeating rifles and horses  
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show Growing competition for the rapidly dwindling hunting grounds  
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The federal government's attempt to confine Indians to certain areas through formal treaties was largely ineffective because...   show
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The warfare that led up to the Battle of Little Big Horn was set off by...   show
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Indian resistance was finally subdued because...   show
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show Creating a network of children's boarding schools and white "field matrons"  
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show A movement from individual operations to large-scale corporate businesses  
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show The use of irrigation from dammed western rivers  
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show Unemployed city dwellers could move west and thus relieve labor conflict in the East  
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show False  
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By the 1880s, most western farmers faced hard times because...   show
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show False  
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show It seemed to represent "government by injunction" designed to destroy labor unions  
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William Jennings Bryan gained the Democratic nomination in 1896 because he strongly advocated...   show
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show Eastern wage earners and city dwellers  
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show Sioux  
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show Apaches  
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Generally poor areas where vanquished Indians were eventually confined under federal control   show
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Indian religious movement, originating out of the sacred Sun Dance that the federal government attempted to stamp out in 1890   show
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Federal law that attempted to dissolve tribal landholding and establish Indians as individual farmers   show
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Huge silver and gold deposit that brought wealth and statehood to Nevada   show
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show Long drive  
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show Homestead Act  
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Improved type of fencing that enabled farmers to enclose land on the treeless plains   show
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show Oklahoma  
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show Populists (People's Party)  
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show Coin's Financial School  
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Bitter labor conflict in Chicago that brought federal intervention and the jailing of union leader Eugene V. Debs   show
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Spectacular convention speech by a young pro-silver advocate that brought him the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896   show
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Popular term for those who favored the "status quo" in metal money and opposed the pro-silver Bryanites in 1896   show
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Site of Indian massacre by militia forces in 1864   show
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Site of major US Army defeat in the Sioux War of 1876-1877   show
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Leader of the Sioux during wars of 1876-1877   show
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Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who conducted a brilliant but unsuccessful military campaign in 1877   show
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show Geronimo  
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show Helen Hunt Jackson  
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show John Wesley Powell  
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show William Hope Harvey  
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Railway union leader who converted to socialism while serving jail time during the Pullman strike   show
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Former Civil War general and Granger who ran as the Greenback Labor party candidate for president in 1880   show
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show Mary E. Lease  
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show Mark Hanna  
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Cause: The encroachment of white settlement and the violation of treaties with Indians   show
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Cause: Railroad building, disease, and the destruction of the buffalo   show
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Cause: Reformers' attempts to make Native Americans conform to white ways   show
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show Ended the romantic, colorful era of the miners' and cattlemen's frontier  
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Cause: "Dry farming," barbed wire, and irrigation   show
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show Created new psychological and economic problems for a nation accustomed to a boundlessly open West  
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show Made settlers vulnerable to vast industrial and market forces beyond their control  
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show Threatened the two-party domination of American politics by the Democrats and Republicans  
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Cause: The economic depression that began in 1893   show
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Cause: The return of prosperity after 1897 and new gold discoveries in Alaska, South Africa, and elsewhere   show
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