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Society based on farming
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Agrarian
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This Scottish-born American industrialist made his fortune in the steel industry
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Andrew Carnegie
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These are laws and regulations designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices
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Antitrust
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This was the classic statement on race relations by Booker T. Washington, made in a speech at the Atlanta Exposition (1895). He asserted that vocational education, which gave blacks a chance for econominic security, was more valuable than social equality or political office
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Atlanta Compromise
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This was a US educator and reformer. He became perhaps the most prominent African American leader of his time/encouraged blacks to learn a trade & founded the Tuskegee Institute
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Booker T. Washington
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This is the nickname gien to black soldiers with the US Cavalry who helped to spread the US westward in the decades following the Civil War
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Buffalo Soldiers
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This law, passed in 1882, forbade any laborers from China to enter the United States for 10 years
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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New technoligies that helped spur and contribute to the westward expansion and Industrial Revolution
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Communication Revolution
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This is the central banking authority in the US which supervises commercial banks by monitoring accounts and controlling interest rates/Wilson changed the banking system in the US in 1913 by establishing this
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Federal Reserve
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US Cavalry General whose unwise and reckless conduct got him and over 200 soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry killed at the Battle Little Big Horn
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George Custer
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A Native American movement in the 1890's that believed a ritualistic ceremony would result in the reanimation of Indian dead and the defeat of the white invaders into the west
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Ghost Dance
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This was the hypothesis that wealth was the great end and aim of man, the one thing needful/promoted by Andrew Carnegie - stated that wealthy should give back riches to the community
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Gospel of Wealth
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This was a group of American farmers who united in the late 19th century to lobby congress to pass laws protecting them from unfair business practices of large industry
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Grangers
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This was a US author of inspiration adventure stories for boys; virtue and hard work overcome poverty/wriote many financial stories promotring rags to riches theme
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Horatio Alger
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This was a series of economic & mechanical changes of Western Europe in the 18th-20th centuries
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Industrial Revolution
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