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Pull factors out west

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Land and mining rushes and the chance to get rich quick
railroad construction
good deals on land provided by the homestead act

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Frontier thesis

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Idea from frederick turner that american democracy was created on the frontier and european influence is dissolved the more out west you go

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The homestead act

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Provided good deals on land to encourage people to move further out west

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Problems faced by homesteaders

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Environmental problems like drought, floods, blizzards
lots of hard labor
anxious scared and lonely life

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Women role in frontier life

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Women had a more involved role because men needed more help with labor
women started to get more rights

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Elizabeth lizzie johnson

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Former teacher that left teaching and invested in cattle and was considered the texas cattle queen

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Battle of little bighorn

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US attempt to get native leader sitting bull and his rebellion onto the reservation
lots of mistakes made my custard and he dies but natives eventually lose

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Homesteaders

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Americans that moved out west for opportunity

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Ghost dance movement

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Spirtual dance done by natives before battle

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Sitting bull

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Native leader that fought against the army when they tried to put everyone on reservations

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Signicifcant points of wounded knee massacre

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All started a by a crazy man who shot at us soldiers
soldiers had surrounded natives after being scared of rebellion because of the ghost dance

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Prominent robber barons of gilded age

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jay gould, andrew carnigie, and john d rockefeller

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Horizontal integration

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Merges several companies into a system

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Vertical integration

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puts all areas of production into one buisness

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Haymarket affair

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hours long protest for an 8 hour work day, ended with a bombing that killed 7 and injured many

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Wealth gap in gilded age

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very big wealth gap between classes, hard to move up in classes

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Hull house

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houses created by jane mccadams for the poor

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International workers in gilded age

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lots of immigrants from south and east europe as well as chinese

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Knights of labor philosophy

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workers own the industries they work in

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Chinese exclusion act

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prohibited chinese immigrants from coming to america in 1882

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Politics in gilded age

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Common beliefs include limited federal government, opposed labor unions, ignored suffering, widespread corruption, parties were more similar than different
Republicans more concentrated in rural areas in the north, mid west, and western states
Protestant northerners and westerners, had 4 presidents in gilded age
Used tactic called waving bloody shirt, reminded voters of civil war and how they were lincolns party who ended slavery and war
Democrats had southern and northern cities, favored by immigrants, very religiously diverse, strongly supported segregation, only had 1 president
Political machine- unofficial political org designed to keep a party or faction in office, very common in northern cities
Political boss- presides over machine, brings in voters and immigrants in exchange for bribes, favors, and government contracts

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Anthony comstock

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guy who wanted to crackdown on obsene content

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23
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Jim crow laws

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segregation laws set to prevent blacks from having rights

24
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plessy vs ferguson

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case that upheld segregation laws after black man broke barrier on railcar

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Phillipine island warfare

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Philippine island warfare- filipinos did not like americans and emilio aguinaldo leads a movement for independence, 20000 casualties between sides(4k americans), us wins

26
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WEB Bois

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first african american to get phd from harvard, published souls of black folk to advocate for complete racial equality and resistance to discrimination

27
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Booker T washington

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former slave from virginia, then educated at a freedman school, founded tuskegee institute in alabama, black school that teached trades
Washington advocates for skills, wages, and labor to earn respect from whites
Washington also advocates for giving in to whites to gain equality

28
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Lynching

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unfair hanging of black people, normally used crimes as an excuse

29
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Taking over of hawaii

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Hawaii has sugar plantations but hurt by mckinley tariff
Queen liliuokalani of hawaii taken away from throne for anti american views and natives give the u.s. Pearl harbor then eventually hawaii as a territory

30
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open door policy in china

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americans want to sell goods in china and china is weak and boxer rebellion starts from us influence

31
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Granger laws

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the grange or “patrons of husbandry” one of first groups to join and elect representatives in state legislatures and us house of representatives, group grows to 1.5 million members by mid 1870s
Legislators pass laws fixing max grain storage rates and shipping costs
Supreme court upheld these laws^
Grange also formed farmer cooperatives, farmer co ops that provide farmers things they need at a discounted price, starts to eliminate role of merchants
Grange eventually declines in power by late 1870s, after crop prices rebound

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Panic of 1893

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economic depression caused by decreased crop prices and increasing railroad shipping rates

33
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Farmers alliance

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started in lampasas by charles macune
Organization was very community oriented to address national issues
By 1890 alliance has 3 million members across the south
National colored farmers alliance forms in separate but equal society
Supported lower tariffs, wanted to increase money supply with paper money as well as silver, also wanted to spread scientific agriculture.

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munn vs illinois and wasbesh vs illinois

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laws controlling and limiting the railroads

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Theodore roosevelt on labor unions

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roosevelt agrees on labor unions, allows for reform

36
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Teddy and gifford pinchot

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teddy starts to want to conserve nature pinchot is the director of parks

37
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The jungle

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book written in 1906 exposing meat packing industries

38
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Trust busting

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act of breaking up big companies that allowed for no competiton in the economy

39
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progressive presidents

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teddy, taft, woodraw

40
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shirtwaist factory fire

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factory fire where many woman died, later found out woman were locked in, brought lots of reform

41
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election of 1912

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Roosevelt decides to run again in 1912 to take taft off office
Republican party leaders nominate taft for primary, roosevelt runs in his own progressive(bull moose) party
Socialist eugene debs runs and wins a lot of votes for socialist
Woodraw Wilson
Eventually would win the 1912 election

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populist vs progressive movements

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populist wanted farming reforms and less government but progressives thought the government needed to do things to cause reform

43
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women roles in progressive era

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woman start to want the right to vote

44
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Margeret sanger

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argaret sanger creates birth control league in 1914, tried to spread contraception knowledge to other women
Very outspoken, argued against women being in a separate sphere of life
Sanger did not support abortion, thought it was too dangerous, did support the idea of eugenics, idea that certain races and groups of people should not have children

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Ida B wells

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Ida b wells- cofounders of naacp, nation association for the advancement of colored people, advocated for the end of lynching

46
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suffrage movement

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woman thought they should have the right of vote
advocates had margeret sanger but also alice paul who was very radical

47
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WCTU

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a group created by woman who advocated for the outlaw of drinking

48
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Panama canal

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49
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Mexican Revolution

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50
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Zimmermann telegram

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Telegram intercepted by brittish from germany to mexico telling mexico to attack the us, brought us into war

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US entry of WW1

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52
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Russian revolution

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53
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League of nations

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proposed idea to have an organization of countries to prevent war again, rejected by the us

54
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Spanish flu

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flu that went through the world in 1917 killing millions

55
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Red summer

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56
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Red scare

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