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Chapters 17-19 Flashcards

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1
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What were the three major subregions the Plains Indians inhabited?

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Northern Plains, Central Plains, Southern Plains

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2
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What did the Indians mainly hunt? (Animal)

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Bison / Buffalo

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3
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Who killed a ton of Buffalo to undermine the Indians?

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William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody

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4
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What did John M. Chivington do?

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Massacred a bunch of innocent Indians

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5
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What was the Fort Laramie Treaty?

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Congress designated two great plains to the Indians

Encouraged them to become christian and become like the whites

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6
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Who was Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer sent by Congress to fight?

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Indians

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7
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Who started the Red River War?

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Indians

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8
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Who was the Sioux leader?

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Sitting Bull

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9
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Who lead the Indians during Custer’s last stand?

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Sitting Bull

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10
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Who organized the Women’s National Indian Rights Association?

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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11
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What did the Dawes Severalty Act give Indians the rights of?

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US citizens

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12
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What was the dance called that the US army feared of the Indians?

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Ghost Dance

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13
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What is “Wounded Knee”?

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Sight of Indian-White battle where only one little Indian boy survived (Lost Bird)

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14
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What was promontory point?

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Celebration sight of the finish of the first transcontinental railroad

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15
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What did the first transcontinental railroad attract?

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Settlers to the mid-nation, agricultural opportunities, and Irish immigrants

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16
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What did the Timbre Culture Act of 1873 do?

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gave an additional 160 acres of land if the settlers planted 40 acres of trees

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17
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What did the Desert Land Act do?

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Gave away 640 acres of land for $1.25 as long as owners irrigated (Little rainfall areas)

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18
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What did the Timbre and Stone act do?

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160 acres of forest for $2.50 per acre

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19
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What happened in terms of economy in 1873?

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Panic of 1873

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20
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Why did Utah take the longest to become a state?

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Had to deal with mormons and polygamy?

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21
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Which act made polygamy illegal?

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Edmunds-Tucker Act

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22
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Which mexican was arrested by mexican government for acting out against america?

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Juan Cortina

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23
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Who were the White Caps?

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Violent Mexicans

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24
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What was Comstock Lode?

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Bunch of Gold found by Henry Comstock

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25
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What were to effects of the Gold Rush?

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Many people migrated to the west, west was diversified

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26
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Which work of Mark Twain’s described the gold rush as stampedes of people?

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Roughing it

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27
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Who creates Wild West shows and sold cattle in Kansas rather than Texas?

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Joseph McCoy

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28
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Who was the cattle thief who murdered many people and sheriffs?

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William Bonney

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29
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Who was Nat Love?

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Cattle Worker who was a slave descendant

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30
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During the panic of 1873, what crop did many ranchers grow when they went to the Red River Valley?

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Wheat

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31
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Large Scale farms in California’s Central Valley flourished selling what?

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Sunkist Oranges

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32
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What was the Oklahoma Land Rush?

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Indians illegally rushed to 2 million acres of Oklahoma land

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33
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What did the Oklahoma Land rush show?

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The power of the frontier myth

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34
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Which act broke up Indian reservations on Oklahoma land?

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Dawes Severalty Act

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35
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Which act would dissolve Indian territory and tribal government?

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Curtis Act

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36
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Name two writers who wrote about the frontier as a dangerous land filled with noble people

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Daniel Boone and Jame Fenimore Cooper

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37
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Who created the Buffalo Bill character in dime novels?

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Ned Buntline

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38
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Who wrote a study saying settlers needed to change their pattern of settlement?

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John Powell

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39
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Who got Congress to make Yellowstone a national park?

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Henry D. Washburn

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40
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Who cautioned americans to curb their destructive use of the landscape?

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George Marsh

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41
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Who was a wilderness protector that helped make yellowstone a national park?

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John Muir

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42
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What was one of the way railroads kept financial security?

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Sold bonds to the public

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43
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What business pathed way for large scale corporations?

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Railroads

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44
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How did Jay Gould keep the railroads in order?

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5 Major Tracks Spanning America

45
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How did railroads adjust the scheduling?

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Creating four different time zones

46
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What did the Interstate Commerce Act ban?

A

Monopolizing activity

47
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Which organization oversaw railroad practices?

A

Interstate Commerce Commission

48
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Which act empowered Railroads to set rates?

A

Hepburn Act

49
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Who ought out many railroad companies and controlled 2/3 of the US rail mileage?

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J. Pierpont Morgan

50
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Where did Carnegie work before steel?

A

Railroads

51
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How did Carnegie become successful in his industries?

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Vertical Integration

52
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Which company did Carnegie form?

A

Carnegie steel

53
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Who bought out Carnegie steel to form the US steel Corporation?

A

JP Morgan

54
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Who was the carnegie of the oil industry?

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John D. Rockefeller

55
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Which company did Rock form?

A

Standard Oil company

56
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What technique did Rock use to control all the oil companies?

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Horizontal Integration and Sherman Trust Act

57
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Which act did not allow trust acts between companies?

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Sherman Antitrust Act

58
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What did the court rule in US v. the EC Knight company?

A

Manufacturing was not interstate commerce

59
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Who created the ___ Illuminating company?

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Thomas Edison

60
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Once Edison’s company merged with another, which corporation did they form?

A

The General Electric Company

61
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Why were advertisements made?

A

Inventors had more product available than they were selling

62
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Who created the customer friendly camera?

A

George Eastman

63
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What was once of the problems with the new inventions?

A

Environmental destruction

64
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What two things did at home sewing machines encourage?

A

Mothers to make clothing and sweatshop entrepreneurs

65
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What was the South’s Lost Cause?

A

Giving money to war veterans

66
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Who wrote the New South Creed?

A

Henry W. Grady

67
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What did the New South Creed say?

A

Coal and Timber allowed for Industrial development and cheap labor

68
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What did sharecroppers think of the textile mill?

A

It was a place for rural poverty

69
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What did the Separate Spheres doctrine encourage?

A

Women to stay at home and cook and clean

70
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What did William H Sylvis fight for?

A

The one hour day

71
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Who organized the National Labor Union?

A

William H Sylbis

72
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Who led the Knights of Labor?

A

Uriah Stephens

73
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Who did the Knights of Labor exclude?

A

Bankers
Doctors
Lawyers
Stockbrokers

74
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What did the knights of labor demand?

A

Equal pay for women, end to child and convict labor, and peaceful relations

75
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Which act suspended Chinese immigration?

A

Chinese Exclusion Act

76
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Who organized the American Federation of Labor?

A

Samuel Gompers

77
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What were yellow dog contracts?

A

Contracts that many workers were forced to sign saying they wont strike

78
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Where did a bomb go off after strikers began striking?

A

Paymarket Square

79
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Where did the homestead strike occur?

A

Carnegie Steel Company

80
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What was the American Railway Union led by?

A

Eugene v. Debs

81
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What was the simple major pull factor of immigrants coming to America (mostly germans)?

A

A better life

82
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What were some ethnicities part of the new immigrants?

A

Italians, Greeks, Jews

83
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Which two customs greeted immigrants as they arrived to the americas?

A

Ellis and Angel Island

84
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What was the victorian world view?

A

People could improve themselves and hard work developed personal self discipline

85
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Who were three people who pushed the department stores?

A

Rowland H. Macy, John Wanamaker, and Marshall Field

86
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Which innovative presidents sought to reform science and medicine?

A

Andrew White and Charles Eliot

87
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What was the main difference in new research universities?

A

They covered a wide variety of courses

88
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What was the political machine?

A

America’s unique contribution to municipal government in an era of pell-mell urban growth

89
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Who used the political machine for personal gain?

A

Corrupt boses

90
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Who was satirized in Thomas Nast’s cartoon for abusing the political machine?

A

William “Boss” Tweed

91
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Who organized the New York Association for Improving the condition of the poor?

A

Robert M. Hartley

92
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Who founded the NY Children’s Aid Society?

A

Charles Loring Brace

93
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Who established the salvation army?

A

General William Booth

94
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Who worked with the Charity Organization Society as the were being accused of controlling the poor?

A

Josephine Shaw Lowell

95
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Who organized the Moral-Purity Campaign?

A

Both Anthony Comstock and Charles Parkhurst

96
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What did the Moral Purity Campaign want?

A

Gambling and lottery closed down

97
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Who fought for the Social Gospel saying men and women had to fight against social injustice

A

Washington Gladden

98
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Who purchased a mansion and opened it as a hull house, a social center for recent immigrants?

A

Jane Addams

99
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Who was Florence Kelly?

A

Worked at the hull house and was taught how to work effectively in a municipal government

100
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What was the first baseball team?

A

New York Knickerbockers

101
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Who introduced the first separate sports page?

A

Joseph Pulitzer

102
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Who was the most famous boxer of the 19th century?

A

John L. Sullivan

103
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Who sold the Maple Leaf Rag?

A

Scott Joplin

104
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What was Mark Twain’s real name?

A

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

105
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How did modernism affect American painting?

A

Winslow Homer and Thoma Eakins had to capture moments of physical difficulties in everyday life

106
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What did Frances Willard believe?

A

Women were compassionate and nurturing?

107
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What did Frances Willard form?

A

the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

108
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Who worked to make sure children stayed in school?

A

William Torrey Harris

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