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date; great Chicago fire

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1871

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date; the gilded age

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1865- 1901

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mark twains name for the age of industry

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the gilded age

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during the gilded age, most of the immigrants were from _______

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china

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Congress created the ___________ to bar Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. for 10 yrs

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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 70% of all immigrants came from eastern Europe

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new immigration

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what was a horse drawn carriage

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omnibus

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what replaced the omnibus

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elevated railways

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what was introduced in San francisco

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cable car

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Boston introduced the 1st ______ to America

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subway

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what was the most practical and widely used means of transpo 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

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John A. roebling

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John A. roebling son who completed the project after his death

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Washington a. roebling

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rapid growth of cities was not always ________ and ______

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sanitary and safe

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destroyed chicago because the wood was the chief building material

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great Chicago fire

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shelters for homeless and poor people

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settlement houses

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1st settlement house created in chicago by Jane Addams

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Hull house

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the 1st state to give suffrage to woman

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Wyoming

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Susan b. anthony and elizabeth Stanton led the ________

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suffrage movement

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1st woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.

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Elizabeth blackwell

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perfected the typewriter

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Christopher sholes

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age of industry brought about the american ________

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middle class

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forerunner of chain stores in america
A&P
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created the precursor of the modern dept. store
John Wanamaker
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known for his large dept. store in Chicago
marshall field
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America's 1st professional team was the Cincinnati red stockings
baseball
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invented by James Naismith, a YMCA instructor in MS
basketball
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______ became a fav spectator sport in the 1870s
football
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brought about a more gently form of boxing
James "gentleman Jim" Corbett
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organized a traveling tent circus
P. T. Barnum
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______ became popular pastime in the early 1890s
bicycling
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1st mail order catalogs and business
Montgomery ward
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company and catalog began byu richard sears, 1 of the most read publications in America after the Bible
sears and roebuck
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the most important institution of rural communities was _______
the local church
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Americas first public kindergartens opened in _______-
st. Louis
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nearly ___ of the American people were able to read by the 1900s (literate)
90%
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wrote pledge of allegiance
Francis Bellamy
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most prestigious college in the country
Harvard
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private colleges were founded by ____-
christian institutions
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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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womans organization that did much to combat the use of alcohol
woman's Christian temperance union
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printed on both sides of the paper at the same time
web press
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1st newspaper publisher to reach a large audience
Joseph Pulitzer
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annual prizes awarded in journalism, lit, drama, and music originally funded through the philanthropy of J. Pulitzer
Pulitzer prizes
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owner of 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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wrote adventures of huckleberry finn was about the consequences of slavery
Samuel L. Clemens (mark Twain)
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wrote Ben Hur about the life f 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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the rise and fall of the confederate govt. was written by who
Jefferson davis
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the lost cause school was written by who
Jubal a. early
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popularized tonalism a style known for its Misty tones
James m. whistler
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best of the tonalism magazine painters that depicted the west
Fredrick 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 NYC
Frederick law Olmsted
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marching band conductor and composer
John Phillip Sousa
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most prolific song writer of the gilded age
fanny crosby (????)
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civil war hero elected in 1868
ulysses s. grant
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stock market crash as a result of Gould and Fisks political schemes
black Friday
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best remembered for his attempts to reform civil service
Rutherford b. Hayes
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Hayes secretary of the interior who pushed for social reform
Carl Schurz
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Rutherford b Hayes wife nickname
lemonade Lucy
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stalwarts opposed legislation to alter civil service and h.-breeds were more congenial to the idea
James a. Garfield
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basis for the modern civil service program
Pendleton act
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set up to administrator 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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1st democrat to win the election after the civil war
grover Cleveland
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the order of succession should the president or VP die in office or resign
presidental succession act
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czar reed was prominent congressional leader
Thomas b. 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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the first president to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office
grover Cleveland
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populist democrat presidential candidate who gave his famous speech "cross of gold"
William Jennings Bryan
81
made gold the sole standard of monetary value
gold standard act
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