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19.1-19.4 Flashcards

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year of the Great Chicago Fire

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1871

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years of the Gilded Age

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1865-1901

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Mark Twain’s name for the Age of Industry

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the Gilded Age

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during the Gilded Age most immigrants came from _______

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China

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Congress created the ______ to bar Chinese laborers from entering the US for ten years

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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began a mission for the Chinese in San Francisco

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William Speer

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by the 1900s, over _____% of all immigrants came from Eastern Europe

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70%

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the omnibus was replaced by ________

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elevated railways

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the ______ was introduced in San Francisco

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cable car

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_______ introduced the first subway to America

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Boston

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the most practical and widely used means of transportation in the 19th century

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electric trolley car

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the largest suspension bridge in the world when it was completed

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Brooklyn Bridge

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chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge

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John A. Roebling

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the son who completed the Brooklyn Bridge after his father’s death

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Washington A. Roebling

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destroyed Chicago because wood was the chief building material

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Great Chicago Fire

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first settlement house created in Chicago

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Hull House

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created the Hull House

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Jane Addams

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the first state to give suffrage to women

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Wyoming

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led the suffrage movement

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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton

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first woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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perfected the typewriters

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Christopher Sholes

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the Age of Industry brought about the American _______

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middle class

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forerunner of chain stores in America

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A&P

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created the precursor of the modern department store

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John Wanamaker

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known for his large department store in Chicago
Marshall Field
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America's first professional baseball team
Cincinnati Red Stockings
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invented basketball
James Naismith
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favorite spectator sport in the 1870s
football
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brought about a "gentler" form of boxing
James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett
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organized a traveling tent circus
P.T. Barnum
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_______ became a popular pastime in the 1890s
bicycling
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known for the first mail order catalogs and business
Montgomery Ward
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company and catalog that was started by Richard Sears
Sears and Roebuck
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first of the most-read publications in America after the Bible
Sears and Roebuck
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most important institution of rural communities
the local church
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America's first public kindergartens opened in ______ in 1873
St. Louis
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nearly ____% of people were literate by 1900
90
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wrote the Pledge of Allegiance
Francis Bellamy
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most prestigious college in the country
Harvard
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established land-grant colleges
Morrill Act
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adult education movement that began as a training session for Sunday school teachers
Chautauqua Movement
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group organized to keep the liquor question before the public
National Prohibition Party
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women’s organization that did much to combat the use of alcohol
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
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most dynamic leader of the WCTU
Frances Willard
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printed on both sides of the paper at the same time
web press
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first newspaper publisher to reach a large audience
Joseph Pulitzer
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annual prizes awarded in journalism, literature, drama, and music originally funded through philanthropy
Pulitzer Prizes
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owner of the New York Journal
William Randolph Hearst
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writing style that depicted life as it actually was without embellishment
realism
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writings focused on regional peculiarities
local color
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wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn about the consequences of slavery
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
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wrote Ben Hur about the life of Christ
Lewis Wallace
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published the best-selling novel In His Steps
Charles Monroe Sheldon
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transcendental poet who wrote “O Captain! My Captain!”
Walt Whitman
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one of the most important poets of the 19th century
Emily Dickinson
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pessimistic writing style affected by evolutionary theory
naturalism
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most successful naturalistic author
Jack London
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wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Jefferson Davis
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wrote the Lost Cause school
Jubal A. Early
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popularized tonalism in art
James M. Whistler
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art style known for its misty tones
tonalism
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best of the tonalist magazine painters that depicted the West
Frederick Remington
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"Father of the Modern Skyscraper"
Louis Sullivan
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"Father of the American Cartoon"
Thomas Nast
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prominent architect who greatly influenced the City Beautiful movement; one of the designers of Central Park in New York City
Frederick Law Olmsted
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marching band conductor and composer
John Philip Sousa
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most prolific songwriter of the Gilded Age
Fanny Crosby
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Black Friday was under this president
Ulysses S. Grant
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stock market crash as a result of Gould and Fisk’s political schemes
Black Friday
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president best remembered for his attempts to reform civil service
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Hayes’s secretary of the interior who pushed for social reform
Carl Schurz
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Rutherford B. Hayes's wife
Lemonade Lucy
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under this president, there were Stalwarts and Half-breeds
James A. Garfield (assassinated 4 months after election)
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difference between Stalwarts and Half-Breeds
Stalwarts wanted political handouts; Half-Breeds wanted merit system
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established the Pendleton Act and Civil Service Commission
Chester A. Arthur
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basis for the modern civil service program
Pendleton Act
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set up to administer exams to federal job applicants
Civil Service Commission
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independent republicans who refused to accept their party nominee
"Mugwumps"
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first Democrat to win the presidency after the Civil War
Grover Cleveland
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established the order of succession should the president or vice president die in office or resign
Presidential Succession Act (Grover Cleveland)
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prominent congressional leader under Harrison
Thomas B. Reed (Czar Reed)
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required Congress to purchase more silver and increase the amount of silver in circulation
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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first president to serve 2 nonconsecutive terms
Grover Cleveland
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Populist Democrat presidential candidate who gave his famous “Cross of Gold” speech
William Jennings Bryan (against McKinley)
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made gold the sole standard of monetary value
Gold Standard Act (1900 by McKinley)
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