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| Regarding the distribution of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma. |
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| The film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play |
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| Construction management and construction company formed by George Francis Train |
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| American birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). |
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| One of the most important American labor organizations of the 19th century |
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| Long-time State Senator from the U.S. state of New York |
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| American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads |
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| Chinese Filipino general, politician, and independence leader |
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| Woman's suffrage leader. She was elected president of NAWSA |
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| English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist, and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. |
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| American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of her day. |
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| a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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| Address the perceived evils of child labor |
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| former slave—served in both the South Carolina State legislature and the United States House of Representative |
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| socialist-- American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World |
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| made it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail |
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| famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward |
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| The Jungle— Pulitzer Prize-winning prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres. |
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| One of the first Mexican Revolutionary generals |
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| upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation even in public accommodations (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of "separate but equal". |
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| religious movement incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems |
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| in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864 |
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| December 29, 1890, 365 troops of the US 7th Cavalry, supported by four Hotchkiss guns, surrounded an encampment of Miniconjou (Lakota) and Hunkpapa Sioux (Lakota) |
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| Also known as Custer's Last Stand and, by the Native Americans involved, the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek— |
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| American industrialist- founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897 |
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| American lecturer, writer, and political activist. She was an advocate of the suffrage movement as well as temperance but she was best known for her work with the Populist party. She wrote The Problem of Civilization Solved |
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| The Yellow Wallpaper--a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. |
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| Father" of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry (more commonly known as "The Grange"). |
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| an American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history--founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), |
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| a prominent twentieth-century African-American civil rights leader and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters |
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| the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War and the only one of the three to see action. |
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| a special congressional committee formed in February 1907 by the United States Congress, which was then under intense pressure from various nativist groups, to study the origins and consequences of recent immigration to the United States. |
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| the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim of improving the species. |
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| a hypothesis stating that the personality traits of a person can be derived from the shape of the skull. |
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| a steam engine, fitted with rotary valves and with variable valve timing, invented by and named after the American engineer George Henry Corliss. |
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| first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron |
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| a Scottish industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur, and a major philanthropist. |
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| allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration, a ban that was intended to last 10 years. |
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| a disturbance that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago, and began as a rally in support of striking workers. |
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| an American politician most famous for his leadership of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York |
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| Republican political activists who supported Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the United States presidential election of 1884. |
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| a Christian Theologian and Baptist Minister. He was a key figure in the Social Gospel movement in the USA. |
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| requires the United States Federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies and organizations suspected of violating the Act. |
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| a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey. |
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