Quiz on Unit 17 Flashcards by Marcia Young | Brainscape

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Issues in the West in the late 1800s

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Water rights and fencing

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The business of managing investments in companies

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Finance capitalism

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Convicted after the Haymarket Riot

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Anarchists

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Southern democrats

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The Redeemers

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Became wealthy in shipping and railroads

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Popular form of entertainment in the period

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Wild West show

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The first big industry

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Railroads

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Leader of the Knights of Labor

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Terence Powderly

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Founded by the American Tobacco Company

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James Buchanan Duke

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Became a wealthy leader in the oil industry

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John D. Rockefeller

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Immigrant processing center in New York Harbor

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Ellis Island

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Pioneered in catalog sales

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Aaron Montgomery Ward

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Agreements that brought many immigrants to the U.S.

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Contract labor

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Major events that attracted millions

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World’s fairs or expositions

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Contributed to the Second Industrial Revolution

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Electric power

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Involved in the coal mining industry

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Molly Maguires

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Socialist leader of the American Railway Union

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Eugene V. Debs

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Industrial Workers of the World

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Wobblies

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A chartered business that is a legal person

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Corporation

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Open to industry, less dependent on farming

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New South