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Wisconsin professor who believed America’s character formed on the frontier
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Frederick Jackson Turner
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Attempt to keep Asians out of the mining frontier
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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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Railheads built by Joseph McCoy literally created this brief frontier
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The cattle frontier
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Act signed into law by Lincoln that sparked the post war farming frontier
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The Homestead Act
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Federal Act that is the epitome of Assimilation
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Dawes Severalty Act
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Idea that promoted industrialization in the post war South
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The New South
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Name of famous essay by Andrew Carnegie that decried socialism and urged philanthropy.
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The Gospel of Wealth
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Act that began the process of giving federal land and subsidies to railroad companies
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Pacific Railway Act
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Pioneered the development of the trust as a way of consolidating and standardizing an entire industry
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John Rockefeller
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The myth that “rags to riches” was a common story for the nation’s leading businessmen
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The Horatio Alger myth
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Industrial union that grew rapidly but declined after the Haymarket Riot
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Knights of Labor led by Terrence Powderly
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Union leader who emphasized staying out of politics and focusing on wages, hours, and working conditions
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Samuel Gompers (head of the American Federation of Labor)
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Political radicals whose involvement in Haymarket created a negative public impression of unions
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Anarchists
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Leader of Pullman strike who, while he was in prison, became a socialist
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Eugene Debs
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Union term for contracts that laborers were forced to sign promising not to join a union
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Yellow dog contracts (note also blacklisting, injunctions, lockouts, and Pinkertons)
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For the farmers, these businesses are the most evil residents with brokers on Wall Street
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Railroads
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Groups of farmers that were created first for social, then economic, and finally political needs and power
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The Grange and the Farmers Alliances
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First attempt at regulating big business by the federal government, passed in response to the case of Wabash v. Illinois
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Attempts by the farmers at the state level to regulate railroad rates resulted in the passage of these laws
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Granger laws
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Landmark Supreme Court case that upheld the right of states to regulate big business in the public interest
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Munn v. Illinois
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Huge influx of these people drove up urban population, poverty, and labor supplies
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New immigrants
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Famous urban architect, part of the Chicago School of architecture that coined the phrase,”form follows function”
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Louis Sullivan
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Social critic who urged the creation of a “single tax” to help solve the “enigma” of a “house of have and a house of want”
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Henry George (author of Progress and Poverty)
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Thomas Eakins Winslow Homer Ashcan Painters
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All realist painters
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Movement urging Christians to apply their faith to solving the social problems of the day
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Social Gospel
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