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Passed to control freedmen and women and exploit them on plantations

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Black codes

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Former senator from Tennessee

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Johnson

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Divided the ten southern states into five military districts

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Military reconstruction act of 1867

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The passage of this act was a deliberate attempt to weaken the power of the presidency

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Tenure of office act

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4
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Johnson was impeached when he tried to dismiss this secretary of war

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Stanton

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Republican candidate in 1868 election

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Grant

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Democratic candidate in the 1868 election

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Seymour

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The amendment that prohibited any government from denying any male citizen the right to vote

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15th amendment

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8
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African Americans who served as senators from Mississippi

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Bruce and revels

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9
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Southern whites who supported republican policies

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Scalawags

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Northerners who went south after the civil war

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Carpetbaggers

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Helped to educate both whites and African Americans

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The freedmens bereau

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12
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Most common form of farm work for freed individuals

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Sharecropping

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13
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Term often associated with the KKK

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Midnight rides

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14
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Campaigned against grant unsuccessfully in 1872

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Greely

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15
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How the southerners referred to the use of federal troops

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Bayonet rule

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Southern democrats who claimed that they had saved the south from republican rule

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Redeemers

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An idea Henry Grady came up with

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The new south

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18
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Founder of the American tobacco company

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Duke

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19
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A crop that hampered the economic development in the south

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A cash crop

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20
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Three tactics designed to keep blacks from voting

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Poll tax literacy test and the grandfather clause

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21
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The Supreme Court law that upheld the Jim Crow laws

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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22
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This is one of his famous quotes:”The slave went free stood a brief moment in the sun: then moved back again towards slavery

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W. E. B Dubois

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T/F the wade Davis bill demanded that ten percent of the eligible voters in the south take an oath of allegiance

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F

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T/F presidents Lincoln and Johnson were in total disagreement over the reconstruction in the south

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F

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T/F the leader of the radical democrats during reconstruction was senator Thaddeus Stevens

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F

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T/F the military reconstruction act divided the south into five military districts

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T

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T/F the command of the army act required that all presidential orders must go through a u.s. Military commander

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T

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T/F the compromise of 1877 resulted in the removal of military rule from the south

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T

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T/F reconstruction can be considered as both a success and a failure

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T

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30
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T/F the separate but equal doctrine ruled the south for more than fifty years

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T

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T/F the Redeemers adopted conservative policies such as lower taxes, less public spending, and reduced government services

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T

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32
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Painted the west

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Remington

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33
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Spoke for progressive education

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Dewey

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34
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Af of l

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Gompers

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35
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Lynching public

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Wells

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36
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Black hand terrorist

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Gavrilo princips

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37
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Century of dishonor

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HElen hunt Jackson

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38
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Radical republican

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Thaddeus Stevens

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39
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Worked with dud on book

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Mark twain

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40
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Author gilded age

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Twain Dudley

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41
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Luck and pluck rags to riches

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Alger

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42
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1868 republican candidate

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Grant

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43
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Jungle

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Upton sinclair

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44
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Call of the wild

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London

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45
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Women’s suffrage assoc.

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Susan b Anthony

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46
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Wizard of Menlo park

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Edison

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47
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Challenged big business

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Roosevelt teddy

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48
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Donated libraries

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Carnegie

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49
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First to be impeached

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Johnson

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50
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Jazz composer

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Joplin

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51
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Purchase of Alaska

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Seward

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52
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New York world

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Pulitzer

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53
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Fight no more forever

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Joseph

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54
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World War One hero

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York

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55
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Cartoonist

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Nast

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56
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Radical civil rights leader

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DuBois

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57
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Archduke assassinated

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Sarajevo

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58
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Walk softly and carry a big stick

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Teddy Roosevelt

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59
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Impressionism

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Mary Cassatt

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60
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Worked with Anthony

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Stanton

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61
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Racial prejudice made it fail

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Populist party

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62
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Loved big warships

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Mahan

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63
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First state for women’s vote

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Wyoming

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64
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Type of farm work after civil war

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Sharecropping

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65
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New York morning journal

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Hearst

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66
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Leader of Germany wwi

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Keizer wilhelm II

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67
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Passed to control freedmen

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Black codes

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68
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Leader of Bolsheviks

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Lenin

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69
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The Shane of the cities

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Steffens

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70
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Gold spike hammered here

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Promontory point

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71
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Cowtown Kansas

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Dodge city

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72
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Laid track west

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Central pacific

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73
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Slow approach to racial equality

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Booker t Washington

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74
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Westward from Omaha

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Union Pacific

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75
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Birthplace of jazz

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New Orleans

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76
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Defeated trying to start League of Nations

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Wilson

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77
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1958 found gold here

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Pikes peak

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78
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Rocks

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Ore

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79
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Financial aid or land grants from the government

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Subsidies

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80
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One of the richest gold strikes

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Comstock lode

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81
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Worked eastward from Sacramento California

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Central pacific

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82
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Groups of people in Boomtowns that delivered justice without judge or jury

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Vigilantes

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83
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When was the transcontinental railroad completed

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May 10,1869

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84
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Drove the spike into promontory point

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Leland Stanford

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85
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Color of promontory point spike

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Gold

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86
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Famous boomtown

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Virginia city, Nevada

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87
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Famous cowtowns

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Abilene, dodge city Kansas, Cheyenne Wyoming

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88
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African Americans who migrated from the south to Kansas

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Exodusters

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89
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Dried out buffalo meat

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Jerky

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Large areas of land set aside for native Americans

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Reservations

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Two large reservations are located in ________and _______

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Oklahoma and Dakota

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More than 100 men, women, and children killed by colonel J.M. Chivington near here

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Sand creek Colorado

93
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Framers troubles blamed on these three groups

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Bankers, railroads, and eastern manufacturers

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Populist nominated to run for president

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Weaver

95
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Last Native American to surrender formally

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Geronimo

96
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Organized to fight for better rights for farmers

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Farmers alliances

97
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Stores where farmers bought from each other

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Coops

98
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Defeated William Jennings Bryant in the election of 1896

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McKinley

99
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T/F many prospectors were disappointed when they learned their “gold” was actually pyrite

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T

100
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T/F copper became one of the key metals found in Montana, Utah, and Arizona

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T

101
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There are five time zones

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F

102
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T/F overgrazing helped end the cattle kingdom

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T

103
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T/F single women and widows could not take advantage of the homestead act

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F

104
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T/F the Longhorns were introduced by the Spanish

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T

105
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T/F a century of dishonor was written by Helen hunt Jackson

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T

106
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T/F railroads and free land helped bring settlers to the plains

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T

107
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Five factors that helped end the cattle kingdom

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Overgrazing, harsh winters, barbed wire, too many cows, and a newer fatter breed of cattle was introduced

108
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Seven goals of the populist party

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One term for the president, income tax, shorter working hours, private ballots, personal election of the senators, and government owned railroads

109
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Five challenges to the plains farmers

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Too much rain, drought, wildfires, tornadoes, and locusts

110
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Half the globe

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Hemisphere

111
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An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth

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Equator

112
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What does the earth rotate on

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Axis

113
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True representation of the earth

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Globe

114
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Symbol key

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Legend

115
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East or west of the prime meridian

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Longitude

116
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23°30’ north of the equater

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Tropic of Cancer

117
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0° longitude

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Prime meridean

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Map showing natural features

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Physical map

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Letter, picture, sign representing something

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Symbol

120
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North or south of the equator

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Latitude

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23°30 south

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Tropic of Capricorn

122
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Imaginary line along180°

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International date line

123
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Shows boundaries of nations

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Political map

124
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Relationship between map distance and real distance

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Scale

125
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An imaginary line of 0° longitude

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Meridean

126
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Imaginary boundary of north polar region

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Arctic circle

127
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Series of 24 zones

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Time zones

128
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Map showing elevations

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Topographic map

129
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System of parralels and meridians

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Grid

130
Q

Imaginary line connecting same points of latitude

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Parallel

131
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Imaginary boundary of south polar

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Antarctic circle

132
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Direction from international date lin

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West

133
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Map enloying diff. Colors

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Relief map

134
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Lines drawn on a map

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Contour lines

135
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Making of maps

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Cartography

136
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90° north/south

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North Pole South Pole

137
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Taking advantage extra daylight

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Daylight savings

138
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Cylindrical map projection

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Mercator projection map

139
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Lines joining places same temps

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Isotherm lines

140
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Seven land masses

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Continent

141
Q

Entirely surrounded by water

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Island

142
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Trembling earth surface

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Earthquake

143
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Borders continents descends deeply

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Continental shelf

144
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Level of ocean

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Sea level

145
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Nearly an island

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Peninsula

146
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Natural elevation

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Mtn

147
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<mt

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Hill

148
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Molten rock, steam, ashes

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Volcano

149
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Mt ridge seperation

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Continental divide

150
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Elevation

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Altitude

151
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Point of land jutting

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Cape

152
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Long depression

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Valley

153
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Real in earths crust

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Faults

154
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Land drops sharply

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Fall line

155
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Hand near sea

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Coast

156
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Narrow strip of land

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Isthmus

157
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High level land

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Platea

158
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Dry spell

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Drought

159
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Hollow depression

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Basin

160
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Large part of continent

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Sub continent

161
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Many islands

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Archipelago

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Gently rolling land

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Plain

163
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Making lands suitable

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Reclaiming the land

164
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Chain of mountains

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Mt range

165
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No outlet

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Land locked

166
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Ring shaped lagoon

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Coral atoll

167
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Deep narrow valley

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Canyon

168
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Tiny sea animals

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Ciral

169
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Ridge of rock

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Reef

170
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T/F s superior railroad helped win war

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F

171
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T/F baron assoc w/ rr owners

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T

172
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T/F rr brought expansion in steel

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T

173
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T/F grow rr network slowed w expansion

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F

174
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Good thing 4 investors

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Dividends

175
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Collective bargaining assoc w/ this

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Knights of labor

176
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GC involved in Pullman strike

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True

177
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Became leading philanthropists

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Carnegie and Rockefeller

178
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4 rr barons

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Hill, Stanford, Huntington, Vanderbilt

179
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3 industries boost from rr expansion

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Coal, lumber, steel

180
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Invented air brakes

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Westinghouse

181
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Invented refrigerated cars

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Swift

182
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Sleeping cars

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Pullman

183
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Car couplers

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Janney

184
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Lay telephone lines across Atlantic ocean

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Field

185
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Typewriter

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Shoes

186
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Shoe making industry

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Matzzeliger

187
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Airplane

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Wright brothers

188
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Filiment

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Latimeter

189
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Power transformers

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Westinghouse

190
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Led Pullman strike

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Eugene v. Debs

191
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Why Joplin couldn’t compose at opera house

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Ragtime musician

192
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Early movie houses

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Nickelodeon

193
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Agreed w/ Chinese exclusion act

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Nativist movement

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Newcomers from eastern and s Europe

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Catholics and Jews

195
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Cathedral of commerce

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Woolworth building

196
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Suggested gangs byproducts if tenaments

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Riis

197
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Detailed horrors of cw

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Red badge of courage

198
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Dancing, singing, comedies, and magic

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Vaudeville

199
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Realist painter 4 human anatomy and surgeries

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Eakins

200
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Family scenes from south

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Tanner

201
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S farmers, Adirondack campers, stormy seas

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Homer

202
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Arrangement in gray

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Whistler

203
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Gave style to skyscrapers

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Sullivan

204
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Designed Central Park

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Olmstead

205
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First skyscraper

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Jenney

206
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First safety elevator

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Otis

207
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Against lynching

A

Ida wells

208
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Formed socialist party

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Debs

209
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Why did the Spanish abandon attempts at Panama Canal

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Forest too dense

210
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Built Suez Canal

A

DeLessups

211
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French believed this caused malaria

A

The fog

212
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When did the French abandon the project

A

1889

213
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How much money did the French lose

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$300 million

214
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Who was Robert dill

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Machinist 104 yrs old

215
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Chief engineer of Panama Canal

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Stevens

216
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Problem humidity caused

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Shoes molding

217
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Laborers pay

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90 cents

218
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Meals

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9 cents

219
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Dills salary

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38 cph

220
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Created gratin lake

A

Chagres river

221
Q

Extreme heat danger

A

Dynamite unstable

222
Q

Comp,eyes Panama Canal

A

Gothals

223
Q

First ship to sail through

A

U.S.S. Ancon

224
Q

Canal brats

A

Children of canal workers

225
Q

Neutral third party called in to settle dispute

A

Arbitration

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