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| What year was the start, end of the civil war? |
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| 1861-1865 (Lee surrendered to Grant) |
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| When and what was the Ghost Dance? What happened after the 1889 ghost dance? |
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-The ghost dance a religious dance of native Americans looking for communication with the dead started by Jack Wilson encouraged his people that they must not steal, lie, drink liquor or fight.
-After the 1889 ghost dance the wounded knee massacre occurred in 1890 at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 7th Cavalry Regiment arrived led by Colonel James Forsyth and surrounded the encampment supported by four Hotchkiss guns and killed the indians. |
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| When did Rutherford Hayes become president? |
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1877
Ended after 1 term in 1881 |
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| When was president William McKinley In office? Assassinated? |
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Elected in 1886 Reelected in 1900.
Killed in 1901 |
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| When and How did Theodore Roosevelt become president? End of presidency? |
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In 1901 When McKinley was assassinated.
Roosevelt ended his presidency in 1909.
(he was the youngest president when he stepped up in 1901) |
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| What date did Jane Addams open the Hull house? |
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| When and what is the Homestead Lockout? |
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| Industrial strike started June 30, 1892,The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (the AA) and the Carnegie Steel Company. The final result was a major defeat for the union and a setback for efforts to unionize steelworkers. |
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| When did congress approve the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments? What were they? |
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-13th 1864-1865 amendment abolished slavery.
-14th amendment 1868 which grants citizenship to everyone born in the US and subject to its jurisdiction and protects civil and political rights.
-15th Amendment 1870 guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race. |
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| What year was President Garfield assassinated? |
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| James Garfield was assassinated jul 2, 1882. |
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| When was the coal strike and how did Roosevelt get involved? |
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| 1902 Theodore Roosevelt became involved and set up a fact-finding commission that suspended the strike. The strike never resumed, as the miners received more pay for fewer hours. |
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| What is a primary source? |
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| The original source of a piece of information. |
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| What and when was the Omaha Platform? |
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| July 4. 1892. Started the populist party James Weaver won over a million votes. In 1896, the Populists abandoned the Omaha Platform and endorsed Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan on the basis of a single-plank free silver platform but did not win presidency (became secretary of state). |
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| What was the compromise of 1877 and what did it represent of reconstruction? |
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| unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election, regarded as the second "corrupt bargain", and ended Congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction. Through it, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops whose support was essential for the survival of Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. Consequently, the incumbent President, Republican Ulysses S. Grant, removed the soldiers from Florida before Hayes as his successor removed the remaining troops in South Carolina and Louisiana. As soon as the troops left, many Republicans also left (or became Democrats) and the "Redeemer" Democrats took control. |
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| Conservation v.s Preservation era? |
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-Conservation=Conservation of the nation's resources, putting an end to wasteful uses of raw materials, and the reclamation of large areas of neglected land Roosevelt helped this happen.
-Preservation=preservation campaigns culminating in the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964,a long effort to protect federal wilderness and to create a formal mechanism for designating wilderness. |
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| When dis Ulysses S. Grant become president? |
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| 1869-1877 after his dominant role in the civil war. |
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| What and when was the Dawes Act? |
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| Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. |
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| What organisation did the KKK start as? |
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| A circle of brothers, a terrorist group created from veterans of the confederate army. They named it after the Greek word kuklos. |
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| What was Social Darwinism? |
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| The strongest or fittest should survive and flourish in society, while the weak and unfit should be allowed to die. was used to justify numerous exploits which we classify as of dubious moral value today related to racism between national or religious groups. |
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| What was the Knights of Labor? |
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| The largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s The Knights promoted the social and cultural uplift of the workingman, rejected Socialism and radicalism, demanded the eight-hour day, and promoted the producers ethic of republicanism. |
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| What political party did the Farmers Alliance become and what did they stand for? |
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| Formed the populist party (populist party)most prominent in 1892-1896. Formed from poor farmers it represented a radical crusading form of agrarianism and hostility to banks, railroads. |
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| William Jennings Brian, what platform and significance? |
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| Democratic party representative for presidency in 1896 supported by the peoples party. |
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| The panic of 1893 was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in 1893. was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in 1893 (doubled value of silver in hopes of helping economy) |
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| What happened to Standard Oil in the 1890's? |
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-Anti trust laws broke up Standard Oil into several companies 1911
-By 1890, Standard Oil controlled 88% of the refined oil flows in the United States. The state of Ohio successfully sued Standard, compelling the dissolution of the trust in 1892. But Standard only separated off Standard Oil of Ohio and kept control of it.
-In 1904, Standard controlled 91% of production and 85% of final sales. |
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| 1870-1890's Gilded Age refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States. Gilded "covered in gold" |
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| Who is Jacob Riis and what is his best selling book? |
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Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.
+* His best selling book "How the Other Half Lives" portrays how the poor people of the world lives with pictures and journals about New York City. |
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| Where and when was the first Transcontinental Railroad built? |
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| The Pacific Railroad from Omaha to Sacramento completed 1869. |
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| Who was Boss Tweed and when and why was he sent to prison? |
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William M. Tweed was an american Democratic politician in the 19th century. Was elected United States House of Representatives 1852, New York State Senate 1867 Tweed's greatest influence came from being an appointed member of a number of boards and commissions, his control over political patronage in New York City through Tammany, and his ability to ensure the loyalty of voters through jobs he could create and dispense on city-related projects.
Tweed was convicted for stealing an amount estimated by an aldermen's committee in 1877 at between $25 million and $45 million from New York City taxpayers through political corruption, although later estimates ranged as high as $200 million. |
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| What year was The Wizard of Oz published? |
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| When and what was the Battle of Little Bighorn? |
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| Custer's Last Stand and, by the Indians involved, as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho people against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which occurred on June 25 and 26, 1876. |
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| What did the Pendlton Act do? |
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| The Pendleton Act served as a response to the massive public support of civil service reform that grew following President James Garfield's assassination. passed January 16, 1883, that established the rules and regulations regarding who could be hired for and retain jobs within the federal government. |
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| is an environment in which transactions between private parties are free from state intervention, including regulations, taxes, tariffs and enforced monopolies. |
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| What was Andrew Carnegie's Message? How did he make his money? |
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He wrote "The Gospel of Wealth" To spend the first third of one's life getting all the education one can,To spend the next third making all the money one can,To spend the last third giving it all away for worthwhile causes.
- He made his money from owing telephone companies and Carnegie Steel which eventually made U.S. Steal. |
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| What is Horizontal Integration? |
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| Make yourself the only one left- Monopolize. absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level. |
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| An American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. Created and owned General Electric and financed creation of Federal Steel company. |
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| What is the Comstock Lode? |
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| The Comstock Lode is the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located under what is now Virginia City, Nevada, on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range |
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| What is Vertical Integration? |
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| The combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies. |
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| What was the gold Standard? |
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| The gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold. |
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| Taxes on imports or exports. |
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| What and When was the Haymarket Affair? |
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| was a demonstration and unrest that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square[3] in Chicago. It began as a rally in support of striking workers. An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they dispersed the public meeting. The bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians and the wounding of scores of others. |
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| Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington D.C. in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time. |
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| What was the Cripple Creek miner's strike? |
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| 1894 a five-month strike by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. Argued for 8 hour 2.5$ workdays rather than 10 hour 3$ workday. |
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| When and what was the Pullman Strike? |
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| The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894.During the economic panic of 1893, the Pullman Palace Car Company cut wages as demand for their train cars plummeted and the company's revenue dropped. A delegation of workers complained of the low wages and sixteen-hour workdays and the company's failure to decrease rents or the price of goods. |
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| When was the Brooklyn bridge completed and why is it special? |
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| 1883, it had huge fanfare and is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. |
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| Who was the engineer on the Brooklyn bridge when it was completed? |
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| Washington Roebling when it was finished in 1883 |
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What were the key ingredient to the building and growth of modern
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| True or False J. P. Morgan believed in abolute free market capitalism? |
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| -False he built his electric company and federal steel into monopolies. |
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| A monetary standard in which the value of the monetary unit is defined as equivalent both[1] to a certain quantity of gold and to a certain quantity of silver; such a system establishes a fixed rate of exchange between the two metals. |
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| An american policy that made silver a form of money. It lead ti Bimetalism |
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| What was the Treaty of Paris and when was it passed? |
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| Was signed on December 10, 1898, at the end of the Spanish-American War, and came into effect on April 11, 1899, when the ratifications were exchanged. |
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| known in the United States as antitrust law, is law that promotes or maintains market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. |
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| The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 |
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sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias, and federal troops.
Wage cuts and poor working conditions caused the strike. |
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| Guam, Phillipines, Puerto Rico |
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| Puerto Rican Campaign was an American military sea and land operation on the island of Puerto Rico during the Spanish–American War. The offensive began on May 12, 1898, when the United States Navy attacked the archipelago’s capital, San Juan. |
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| closely associated with reform-oriented journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the United States after 1900 and continued to be influential until World War I, when through a combination of advertising boycotts, dirty tricks and patriotism, the movement, associated with the Progressive Era in the United States, came to an end. |
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| Big Stick ideology The idea of negotiating peacefully, simultaneously threatening with the "big stick", or the military (Informal form of Imperial Dominance) |
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| was the 17th President of the United States (1865–1869). As Vice President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American Civil War. |
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| was the 19th President of the United States (1877–1881). As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution. |
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| was a leading American railroad developer and speculator. He has long been vilified as an archetypal robber baron,[2] whose successes made him the ninth richest American in history. |
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| was an American oil industrialist, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company |
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| was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era. |
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| was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. |
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