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| This was one reason why there was a change from old to new immigrant groups. These were letters that immigrants sent back to their home countries about how great America is. It provided for a lot of additional immigration to the United States. |
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| This was one result of the change from old to new immigrant groups. This basically meant anti-foreignism. A lot of Americans started to have bad feelings toward anyone foreign. |
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| This was the religious thought that Darwim had the answer for where man came from. They believed that science holds the answers and that man came from evolution. |
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| This group believed that the answer to where man came from is found in the Bible. These individuals were highly religious and depended on faith more than science. |
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| These were teacher training schools. Teachers would come here to be prepared to teach in other schools. |
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| This had to do with travelling lecturing associations that emphasized adult education through acting out the figures, events, etc. |
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| This man was a black educator that founded a famous black industrial school (Tuskeegee) and believed that if blacks were going to make it, they needed education and job schooling. |
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| This man was a black educator who was best known for being an internationally renowned agricultural chemist. |
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Dr. William DuBois
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| This man was the first black to ever earn his doctorate degree from Harvard. Also, in 1910 he helped form the NAACP. He wanted full equality for blacks immediately and didn't want to have to ease into it. |
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| He is a Yale man. In 1889, he chose the first all-American football team. |
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| He was a YMCA instructor that invented basketball in 1891. He wanted to find a sport that the boys could play inside when it was cold. |
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| Butterfield Overland Express |
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| This was the best known stagecoach of the mid to late 1800's. It was killed off by the telegraph and the railroads. |
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| He was the chief of the Néz Percé Tribe. He led 200 braves and 300 others from the Pacific Northwest in route to Canada to escape U.S. violence and jourisdiction. The U.S. troops caught up with him and his group 30 miles from the Canadian border. He chose to surrender instead of fight the U.S. government. |
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| This man was a Paiute Medicine Man who predicted the "Great Day" when all of the dead Indians and buffalo would return to the land and fight against the whites. |
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| He was Tavibo's son who had been adopted by whites. In the late 1880's he got severly sick and had a high fever. While he was sick, he claims to have seen visions of the "Great Day" that his father had talked about during his life. |
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| She wrote the book A Century of Dishonor which catalogued and documented the many things that the whites had done to the Indians over time. This book was inflluential in passing the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887. |
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| In 1866, the cattlemen created a trail from Texas to Sedalia, MO where they could take their cattle to market. They took 200,000 Longhorns and drove them in groups of 1,000 in hopes to get most of them to market. Most of the Longhorns didn't get to Sedalia. |
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| After the failed attempts to get cattle to MO in 1866, he decides to improve the drive of the cattle a bit. He creates the Chisholm trail from Texas to Abeline, KS (a much shorter distance) where there was a train depot to take the cattle where they needed to go. From 1867 to 1871 about 1.5 million cattle were driven on that trail. |
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| In 1874 he invents barbed wire to solve the need for cheaper fencing. |
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| In 1868 he invents the chilled steel plow which is a stronger plow and will allow farmers one solution for their need for better farming equipment. |
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| This act was passed in 1862. It said that the Federal Government woudl give free land to states if they would set up agricultural and mechanical schools. |
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| This act was passed in 1877 and said that the Federal Government would subsidize the agricultural and mechanical schools if they would perform government experiments there. |
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| These are the people who wanted the land in the West before it was all gone. |
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| This man was one of the best known boomers who illegally led a group of boomers into NW Oklahoma and SW Kansas. Federal troops ran them out of the area. |
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| In the 1860's he fomed a group called the Patrons of Husbandry that became known as the Grange that later came to be known as the Farmer's Cooperatives. |
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| She was a bold, travelling populist spokeswoman who told farmers to grow less corn and more hell. In one year, she gave 160 speeches. |
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| He was the Populist candidate that ran in the 1892 election against Grover Cleveland. He didn't win, but did get 22 electoral votes and over 1 million popular votes. |
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| This was named for Jacob Coxey who was a wealthy OH quarry owner. In 1894 he led 500 unemployed workers on a march from Ohio to the nation's capital in Washington D.C. The march was to demand $500 million of federal work projects to create jobs. |
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| When the Pullman Strike happened in 1894, Eugene V. Debs called a sympathy strike for the Pullman Workers and all of the American Railway Union went on strike as well. This would shut down most of the railways in Chicago. |
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| Cleveland's attorney general and secretary of state. He helped with the Venezuelan Boundary dispute and to break up the Pullman/ ARU strike. |
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| She becomes the queen of Hawaii in the 1890's and really doesn't want Americans on her land in Hawaii. The U.S. starts a revolution in Hawaii and she is taken out of power. |
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| This man was a Jingo in Congress and favored expansionism. |
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One of the developers of the Yellow Press. He was part of the New York Journal previously.
He left the New York Journal to jointly develop the Yellow Press. |
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| He left the New York World to help jointly develop the Yellow Press. |
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| Weyler was a Spanish leader who instituted the reconcentrados, or concentration camps, in Cuba during the war in the 1890's. Because 50,000 Cubans died in one camp, he became known as "Butcher." |
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| This was a private letter written by Spanish ambassador Dupoy DeLome to a friend in Havana, Cuba. The letter was confiscated in Cuba and sent back to the U.S. The Yellow Press got the letter and published its contents which said that McKinley was a would-be politician and a peope pleaser. It fired Americans up against Spain. |
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The Maine was harbored in Cuba. There was a big explosion and the ship sank rapidly. After a faulty investigation, the U.S. blamed Spain and the U.S. people got even more fired up against Spain.
Later Remember the Maine was a popular phrase. |
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| This was an amendment to the declaration of war against Spain. It said that the U.S. would not take possession of Cuba but would help to liberate it. |
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| On May 1, 1898, he crushed the Spanish Fleet at Manilla Bay in the Philippines and becomes a hero in America. |
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| During the Spanish-American War, he was the supreme commander on mainland Cuba. |
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| Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan |
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| He Wrote The Influence of Seapower Upon History. The two main themes of the book were 1. strong countries throughout history have had strong navies and 2. strong countries with strong navies get rewarded. His theories were proved true during the Spanish-American War. |
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| He was McKinley's capable secretary of state. He was elemental in bringing about the Open Door Policy in China and wrote at least two Open Door Notes to all involved in the China trade. |
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| He was a crazed anarchist who shot and killed William McKinley at a Pan American Exposition in September of 1901. |
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| He was the first head of the National Conservation Commission. |
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| This was a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that said that the U.S. maintained the right to prevent violation to the Monroe Doctrine through preventative intervention. It expanded the Monroe Doctrine to say that the U.S. can step in and intervene even if we just think there is going to be a violation on the Monroe Doctrine. |
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| This man replaced Alger as secretary of war and later became secretary of state. |
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| This treaty said that England gave the U.S. permission to build a canal all by itself. It overturned the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. |
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| He was a Fenchman who schemed with Teddy Roosevelt to get the Panama Canal built. |
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| He was the engineering genius and mastermind behind the Panama Canal. |
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| He was in charge of health and sanitation during the building of the Panama Canal. |
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