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Barbed Wire   Invention that encouraged the settlement of the Midwest  
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Montana   Location of many battles in the 1800s between U.S. military and Native Americans  
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Harvesters, threshers   Farm inventions that led to increased crop production  
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Populist   Political party formed in the 1890s  
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Alabama railroads   Type of transportation created to support coal and iron industries in the state of Alabama  
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W.E.B. Du Bois   Major social reformer from the progressive era  
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Telephone, typewriter   Types of Industries that showed the growth of technology in America  
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Suffrage   The right for women to vote  
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George Washington Carver   Tuskegee Institute agricultural director that helped southern farmers  
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Sherman Antitrust Act   Federal legislation that was passed to regulate business  
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Plessy v. Ferguson   Famous Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation in 1896  
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Buffalo   Native Americans of the plains depended on this animal for survival  
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Thomas Edison   Inventor of the light bulb  
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Woodrow Wilson   Democratic candidate for president in 1912  
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Muckrakers   Name that Theodore Roosevelt gave journalists who exposed corruption  
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The Grange   Name of political party given to farmers who organized politically  
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Dawes Act   A scheme by the U.S. government to settle Indians on plots of land  
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act   An act passed by Woodrow Wilson to break up monopolies  
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Steel   Major industry in the state of Alabama in the late 1800s  
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Sixteenth amendment   Required Americans to pay income taxes  
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Sitting Bull   Famous Sioux Indian chief  
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Farmer's Alliance   Farmers organization formed to fight big business  
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Robber Barons   Captains of industry during the late 1800s  
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The Jungle   A book that caused the government to increase consumer protection guidelines  
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Seventeenth Amendment   Requires that the United States senators be elected by voters in their state  
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