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Details Title: Concentration Review 2/23/04 Description: These are the matchups for the concentration game Total Flash Cards: 18 Created: 02/23/2004 21:04:04	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Church of Jesus Christ or Christian Science Definition The religion founded by Mary Baker Eddy Term J.P. Morgan Definition the banker who launched U.S. steel Term Homesteading Definition the practice of the U.S. government to give away public land to western settlers. Term Grover Cleveland Definition the only democrat elected president during this time period Term Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall Definition two names that have come to symbolize political corruption Term The Comstock Law Definition the federal law that was used to confiscate pronography and drugs used to induce(cause) abortions Term Thomas Nast Definition The Cartoonist who gave the republican and democratic their animal symbols Term a pool Definition the earlist form of a business combination and an agreement to divide business in a given area and share the profits Term The Sherman Anti-Trust Act Definition the first federal law passed to break up trusts in 1890 Term The Grange Definition the organization of farmers started to fight the powers of the railroads Term Frederick Jackson Turner Definition the author of the frontier theory to explain American development Term Samuel Gompers Definition Leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) Term Social Darwinism Definition Millionaires are the products of natural selection are an example of this philosophy Term Booker T. Washington Definition He oversaw or operated the Tuskeegee institute Term W.E.B. Du Bois Definition one of the founders of the NAACP Term Horizontal Integration Definition the practice of joining forces with competitors to monopolize a market Term the Knights of Labor Definition The labor union that fought for an 8 hour workday and accepted women workers as equals Term Plessy vs. Ferguson Definition it decreed the doctrine "seperate but equal"