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Gilded Age Key individuals Flashcards

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Who began the term ‘Gilded Age’, after writing it as the title of his book in 1873

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Mark Twain

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Who were the authors of ‘Gilded Age’

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Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

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Who wrote the book ‘The American Commonwealth’ heavily criticising the politics of the period

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Englishman, James Bryce

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Who was the editor of the Mugwump journal The Nation who despised modern politics

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Edwin L Godkin

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Name the two twentieth century historians who had a cynical view of politics in the gilded age

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Ray Ginger and Richard Hofstadter

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Name two senators who dominated politics by their control of the new york custom house

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Thurlow Weed and Roscoe Conkling

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What were the names of the two metal importers in 1874 who had a company and paid a bribe of 50,000 dollars to roscoe conkling

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Anson Greene Phelps and William Earle Dodge

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Name the two main 1960s revisionist historians who argued that the gilded age has many positive features and the presidents were good

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Irwin Unger and H.Wayne

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Who was the president 1877-81

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Rutherford B Hayes

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Who led the Stalwarts

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Roscoe Conkling

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Who was appointed Secretary of the Interior in 1877 by Hayes

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Carl Schurz

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Who was Hayes secretary of state

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William M Evarts

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Who was the Collector of the Port of New York who supported the spoils system

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Chester A Arthur

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Who was the democratic nominee that Garfield defeated by a margin of only 10000 popular votes in 1880

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General Winfield Scott Hancock

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Who was president in 1881

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James Garfield

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Who was one of the ringleaders of the star routes that Garfield forced the resignation of

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Thomas J Brady- indicted for conspiracy in 1883

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Who was the unsuccessful lawyer and insurance salesman who believed Garfield owed him a patronage position in the diplomatic corps and that the president’s political decisions threatened to destroy the R party/

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Guiteau

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Who was president 1881-84

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Chester Arthur

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Who was the first democrat elected after the civil war who left and returned for a second term four years later

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Grover Cleveland

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Who was Grover Cleveland’s R candidate opponenent

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James G Blaine

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Who was a leading exponent of Social Darwinism

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English journalist Hebert Spencer

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Who was the robber baron for the railroads

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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What was the name of Vanderbilt’s son

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William

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Who was the robber baron for steel

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Andrew Carnegie

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In 1990, who did Carnegie sell his steel empire to for $480 mn

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JP Morgan

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Who published The Gispel Of Wealth in 1889 for philanthropy

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Carnegie

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Which robber baron was linked to the oil industry

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John D Rockefeller

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Which robber baron was linked to finance

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JP Morgan

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Name the two main inventors of the period

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Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell

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30
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Who did the Wabash Railroad in the Southwest system belong to

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Jay Gould

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Who set up the American Federation of Labor in 1885

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Samuel Gompers

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Who did the Santa Fe appoint who in 1875 visited russia to promote immigration

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C B Schmidt

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The assassination of who in 1881 set off anti semitic riots in the south and west

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Alexander II

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Under which president did the statue of liberty unveil before being a gift from france

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Cleveland on 28 oct 1886

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Which banker was excluded from the grand union hotel in new york in 1877

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Jewish banker, Joseph Seligman

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Who set up the American Protective Association in Iowa in 1887

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The lawyer, Henry F Bowers

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Who was the black newspaperwoman in Memphis who attacked the lynching fever in 1892 in a black newspaper, defending black males against a rape charge and exposed the lawlessness of lynching. She then was run out of town for her article and a mob destroyed the newspapers office?

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Ida B wells

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Who was the senator of New Hampshire in 1882 who introduced an education bill to provided millions of dollars to southern black and white schools

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Senator Henry W. Blair of New Hampshire

39
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Who was the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 named after?

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The senator, Henry Dawes of Massachusetts

40
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Who produced the first effective barbed wire in 1873, making it possible to fence land cheaply?

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Joseph Glidden

41
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Who was the populist presidential candidate who won a million votes in 1892?

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James B. Weaver

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Who in 1867 devised a route whereby cattle could be driven north from southern texas to abilene in kansas along the chishom trail to the west of any settlement

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Joseph McCoy

43
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Who in 1868 established a meatpacking business in chicago

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Philip D Armour

44
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Which 2 individuals followed Philip Armour in meatpacking businesses

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Gustavus Swift and Nelson Morris

45
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Who was a portion of the Chisholm Trail marked by

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Jesse Chisholm

46
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Which young historian in 1893 presented a conference paper entitled The Significance of the Frontier in American History- ‘The Turner Thesis’?

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Frederick Jackson Turner

47
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Name 3 historians who criticised Turner and his thesis

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Professor George Wilson Pierson, Ray Allen Billington, Glenda Riley

48
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Who was the Secretary of Navy in 1882

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William H Hunt, who was advocating naval expansion after a review he commissioned found that of 140 ships only 42 were operational

49
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Who described the ships as ‘an alphabet of floating tubs’

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John D Long of Massachusetts

50
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Name the advocate of naval expansion who wrote two hugely influential books, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History in 1890 and The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire two years later?

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Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan

51
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Who negotiated the formation of the 1875 treaty of friendship with Hawaii

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Secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard

52
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Who was President Garfield’s secretary of state, who advocated firstly a Pan-American conference in 1881, and who was Garfield’s secretary of state?

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James Blaine

53
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Who was the president 1884-1888

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Grover Cleveland

54
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Who was the president 1888-1892

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Benjamin Harrison

55
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Who was president 1893-97

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Cleveland

56
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Who was Hayes VP?

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William Wheeler

57
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Who was Hayes Defeated candidate in 1876

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Samuel Tilden, Governor of New York

58
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Who was Garfield’s VP

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Chester Arthur

59
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Who was Garfield’s defeated candidate

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Winfield Hancock

60
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Who was Cleveland’s VP in 1884

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Schuyler Colfax

61
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Who was Cleveland’s defeated candidate in 1884

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James Blaine

62
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Who was Harrison’s VP

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Henry Wilson

63
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Who was Harrison’s defeated candidate

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Glover Cleveland

64
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Who was Cleveland’s VP in 1892

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Adlai Stevenson

65
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Who was Cleveland’s defeated candidate in 1892

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Benjamin Harrison

66
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Who was the leader of the half breeds

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James Blaine

67
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Who did James Garfield accept as his running mate who was a stalwart supporter

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Chester Arthur

68
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Who assassinated James Garfield, claiming to be acting on behalf of the stalwarts

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Charles Guiteau

69
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Name two radical womens leaders

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony

70
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Who was the head of the Tuskegee Institute from 1881-1915

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Booker T Washington

71
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Who pushed forward important technological developments like the phonography in 1877 and the motion film camera in 1888

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Thomas Edison

72
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Who owned Standard Oil

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Rockefeller

73
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Who owned US Steel

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Carnegie

74
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Who expanded smaller railroads in Minnesota into a huge railroad empire across the Northwest

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James J Hill

75
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Who were the 2 financiers of the Erie Railroad

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Jay Gould and Jim Fisk

76
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Who was the financier of the St Paul and Pacific railroad

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James J Hill

77
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Who owned the New York Central and Hudson River railroad

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Vanderbilt

78
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Who invented the Bessemer process, which steelmakers shifted to in the 1880s to enable mass production of good quality steel

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Henry Bessemer

79
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Who constructed his first steelworks at Braddock in Pennsylvania in the mid 1870s?

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Carnegie

80
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Who helped the General Electric to become a giant monopoly in April 1892

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Samuel Insull, a young English immigrant

81
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Which 2 people continued to reform the Bureau of Indian Affairs to root out corruption from 1877

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President Hates and his Secretary of the Interior, Carl Schurz

82
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Who was the leader of the Nez Perce tribe during the Nez Perce war?

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Chief Joseph

83
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Who was Chief Joseph forced to surrender to

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the US Army General, general miles

84
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What gilded age event was sitting bull involved in

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Buffalo’s wild west show

85
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what gilded age event was chief joseph involved in

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Nez Perce War

86
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Which gilded age native a event was geronimo involved in

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Geronimo’s war

87
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Which gilded age native a events was general nelson miles involved in

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nez perce war, geronimos war, ghost dance rebellion

88
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Who was responsible for indian affairs from 1877

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Carl Schurz

89
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Who was the leader of the Knights of Labor who campaigned for an 8 hour day and other restrictions on employers

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Terrence Powderly

90
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Who wrote The Gilded Age book

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Mark Twain

91
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He wrote Progress and Poverty in 1879

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Henry George

92
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Who wrote the article in 1887 entitled The Limits of Laissez Faire

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Henry Carter Adams

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Who were the two main satirists and cartoonists

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Thomas Nast and Thomas Keppler

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