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| American Federation of Labor |
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| 2nd formed labor union, successful |
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| Americans and Native American cowboys hunting cattle; |
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| Act that separated Native American families (160 acre lands); part of assimilation |
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| Transition island thousands of immigrants came through |
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| Multiple industries protest; anarchists throw bomb into crowd, making unionist look bad. Event caused decline in Union Membership |
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| Company buys out competition |
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| Passed 1887; meant to control railroad rates |
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| Monopoly holder; Railroads and Banking |
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| (Pyramid Scheme) Workers provide things to boss (money, etc.) for small favors in return (small jobs, apartment, etc.); This made bosses control immigrant cities or towns; Most famous were Tammany Hall and "Boss" Tweed (controlled for 25+ years, millions earned) |
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| Battle at which the Native Americans won; proving over Americans |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| Connected Midwest to Pacific |
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| Famous political machine; controlled for over 25+ years and earned millions |
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| Owns every step of production |
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| More efficient way of making iron into steel, invented by Carnegie |
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| Against Chinese immigrants; Americans thought immigrants were taking too many American jobs |
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| Founder of international labor union |
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| Idea adopted by wealthy, that that had a duty to give some of their money to the poor (ex, Rockefeller) |
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| Strike against Carnegie steel because of wage cuts; Used lockout, Pinkerton, militia, and injunction (successful) |
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| Industrial Workers of the World |
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| Union formed along with AFL |
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| Book writted by Helen Hunt Jackson exposing the treatment of the Native Americans by the government |
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| Strike against railroad company for wages and living conditions (Pullman City); Used militia and injuction |
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| Idea that wealthy people are where they are because they worked harder; Survival of the fittest |
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| Battle at which the Native Americans lost, one of their last stands to Americans before giving up the fight |
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| Invented efficient way of mass-producing steel, became a monopoly |
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| General of the Battle of Little Big horn |
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| Invented light bulb, revolutionized the industrial industry (able to work at night) |
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| Railroad workers strike because of low wages, taken down by military (Government was usually on businesses side) |
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| Settlers who moved west because of Homestead act |
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| First formed labor union; failed |
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| The slowly urbanizing south; trying to catch up with the North after reconstruction |
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| Monopolized the Standard Oil Company |
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| Monopoly owned by Rockefeller |
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| Speech given by William Jennings Bryan telling all that the gold standard is hurting farmers |
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| Cross of Gold Speech; leader for populist party, won 10% vote |
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| Tried to come together and price crops the same, failed because at least one farmer was unloyal |
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| Age where the gold standard was prominent, and the rich became richer |
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| Presidents such as Roosevelt and Taft who focused on solving the corruption America had come in contact with |
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| Intended to break up monopolies, failed because it was not enforced |
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| Thought economic gain was more of a priority than demanding civil rights for African Americans |
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| Opposite Washington; thought the demand for rights right away was most important |
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| National American Women's Sufferage Association |
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| A loose organization of farmers trying to work together against railroads (failed) |
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| Created fixed rate for railroads (states/federal government can control) |
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| Came before the Progressive party; "Strong as a bull" |
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| People who exposed the corruption in social, economic, and political areas of the time period, such as Upton Sinclair who wrote The Jungle, exposing the unsanitary meat industry |
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| Money issued by farmers, help them and their prices |
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| Provided civil service reform |
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| Direct election of senators |
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| Speech given by Washington; addresses the need for political and social equality for African Americans |
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| Effort to stop monopolies and trusts |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, created by Debois |
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