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1
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People that went to California in the gold rush

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Forty-niners

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2
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Withdraw from the union

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Secession

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Used to describe the violence in the Kansas territory over slavery

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Bleeding Kansas

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Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe; considered one of the causes of the civil war

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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5
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Completed the continental US

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Gadsden Purchase

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Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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7
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Led the Underground Railroad

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Harriet Tubman

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8
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President of the confederacy

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Jefferson Davis

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9
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1st state to secede from the Union

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South Carolina

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10
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1st battle of the Civil War

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Fort Sumter

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Led a raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolt; was captured and hanged

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John Brown

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12
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Name the confederate states

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AL, MS, GA, SC, NC, FL, TX, LA, VA, TN, AR

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13
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Led confederate army in the East

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Robert E. Lee

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14
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Head of the northern army at the end of the war

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Ulysses S Grant

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15
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Peace Democrats (Northern Democrats who were against the war)

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Copperheads

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16
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First pointed projectile in the war

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Minnie ball

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17
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Earned his nickname at Bull Run

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Thomas Jackson

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18
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What is Thomas Jackson’s nickname

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Stonewall Jackson

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19
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Turning point of the war in the East

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Gettysburg

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20
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Turning point of the war in the West

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Vicksburg

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21
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Located in Tennessee; where Albert Sidney Johnson was killed; where the hornets nest occurred; bloodiest battle in the war

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Shiloh

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22
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Bloodiest one-day battle

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Antietam

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23
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The largest and worst prison camp in Georgia

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Andersonville

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24
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Issued after Antietam

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Emancipation Proclamation

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25
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Battlefield nurse that started the Red Cross

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Clara Barton

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26
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Last major confederate victory in the war

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Chickamauga

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27
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Took place during the battle of Gettysburg; 6000 were killed

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Pickett’s Charge

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28
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Practice total war in Georgia

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William Sherman

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29
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Assassinated Abraham Lincoln

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John Wilkes Booth

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30
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Rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

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Reconstruction

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31
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This amendment gave slaves the right to vote

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15th amendment

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32
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This amendment freed the slaves

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13th amendment

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33
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People in the south who helped during Reconstruction

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Scalawags

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34
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Northerners who came to the south to get rich during Reconstruction

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Carpetbaggers

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35
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Didn’t pay rent; gave landowners half of their crops

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Sharecroppers

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36
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This amendment gave slave citizenship

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14th amendment

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37
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Paid rent for land

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Tenant farmers

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38
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Largest vein of silver found in the West

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Comstock Lode

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39
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Where was the comstock lode found?

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Carson City, Nevada

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40
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Deep mining

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Quartz mining

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41
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Example of a boom town and ghost town

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Leadville, Colorado

42
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Surface mining with picks and shovels

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Placer mining

43
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Towns where gold is found and people rush to that town for gold and everyone leaves when the gold is gone

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Boomtown/Ghost Town

44
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Trail they used for cattle backs

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Chisholm Trail

45
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Where did the Chisholm and Sedalia trails end

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Abeliene (Chisholm) and Sedalia (Sedalia)

46
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Land owned by the government in the Great Plains that could be used by everyone

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Open range

47
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Gave 160 acres of land to anybody who would live on it for 5 years with a $10 fee

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Homestead Act

48
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What farmers were called in the west

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Sodbusters

49
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Where civilization meets unsettled land

50
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Last battle of the Indian War

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Wounded Knee

51
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Ambushed by the Sioux; he and his unit were all killed at Little Big Horn

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George Custer

52
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Leader of the battle of Little Big Horn

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Sitting Bull

53
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River in Wyoming where Custer was wiped out by the Sioux

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Little Big Horn

54
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People should decide what government they want

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Popular sovereignty

55
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Invented the telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

56
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Provided for the building of the Transcontinental Railroad

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Pacific Railway Act

57
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One of the Big Four who paid for the Central Pacific Railroad; later became governor of California and founded Stanford University

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Leland Stanford

58
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The building of the Transcontinental Railroad was his dream

59
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Began in Sacramento, California and moved East

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Central Pacific Railroad

60
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Began in Omaha, Nebraska and moved West

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Union Pacific Railroad

61
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Built the Great Northern Railroad and didn’t use government money to build it

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James J. Hill

62
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People bought supplies from a company they already owned, so they overcharged the railroad, and by the end, the investors were rich while the railroad was almost bankrupt

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Credit Mobilier Scandal

63
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When you buy every company needed to produce your product

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Vertical integration

64
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When you buy all the companies who are your competition

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Horizontal integration

65
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Scottish immigrant who was very poor and was the first to bring the Bessemer process to America

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Andrew Carnegie

66
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First industrial union in America

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Knights of Labor

67
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Cheapest way of passage for immigrants

68
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Europeans entered the US through this island in the East

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Ellis Island

69
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Asians entered the U.S. through this island in the West

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Angel Island

70
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The fear or dislike of immigrants

71
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Apartment buildings that immigrants lived in that were crowded and run down

72
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Head of Tammany Hall

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Boss Tweed

73
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New York political machine

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Tammany Hall

74
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Give an example of vertical integration

75
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Wrote “How the Other Half Lives”; also a muckraker

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Jacob Riis

76
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Give an example of horizontal integration

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Standard Oil Company

77
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Idea developed by Carnegie that wealthy people should engage in philanthropy

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Gospel of Wealth

78
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You can do anything you want, no matter your circumstances

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Individualism

79
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The idea that people are not successful because of circumstances they cannot control

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Naturalism

80
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Someone who uncovers the bad things in society

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Muckrakers

81
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Term coined by Mark Twain that means an age where everything looked good on the outside but it was messed up on the inside

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Gilded Age

82
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Founded Tuskegee Institute

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Booker T. Washington

83
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Created the civil service system and ended the spoils system

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Pendleton Act

84
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Created a budget deficit by putting a tariff on the wrong products

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McKinley Tariff

85
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First act passed in America against a company in restraint of trade

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

86
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Regulated any industry involved in interstate commerce

87
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African Americans that went to Kansas during reconstruction; let by Singleton

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Exodusters

88
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Laws to enforce segregation in the south

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Jim Crowe Laws

89
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First Farmer’s Alliance

90
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Began by Andrew Jackson that gave government jobs to your supporters; ended by the Pendleton Act

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Spoils System

91
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Art movement that showed feelings over reason and logic

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Romanticism

92
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Moderation in the use of alcohol

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Temperance

93
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Led the slave revolt in Virginia and was hanged and 50 people died

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Nat Turner

94
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Belief that Americans were meant to occupy the U.S.

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Manifest Destiny

95
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People who settled on land they didn’t own

96
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Led the Mormons into Utah after Joseph Smith died

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Brigham Young

97
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People who brought in at least 300 families to Texas; also named for the tracks of land given to them

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Empresarios

98
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Mission in San Antonio Texas where all the defenders dad but it became the battle cry of the war with Mexico

99
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What California was called before became a state

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Bear Flag Republic

100
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North plan to win the war

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Anaconda plan

101
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List the three terms of the Anaconda plan

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Blockade southern ports, split the confederacy at the Mississippi River, take control of Richmond

102
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List Thomas Alva Edison’s inventions

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Phonograph, Dictaphone, electric generator, battery, motion picture, and lightbulb

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