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| Jim Crow Laws: |
laws tht promoted segregation in public facilities. |
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cocobabe14 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:34:49 GMT |
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| Bicycle: |
it was inveneted in the late 1900s and in 1885 chains were added |
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cocobabe14 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:34:49 GMT |
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| James Naismith: |
invented the bike i think |
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| Emily Dickinson: |
wrote 1700 poems and only 7 were published when she was alive |
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| John Philip Sousa: |
invented the bike |
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| L. Frank Baum: |
l frank baum wrote the wizard of oz and he was always sick |
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| Mark Twain: |
12 feet under water depth |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B Anthony- |
they organized the Nation Women Suffrage Association together |
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| John D. Rockefeller: |
the guy who owned the standard oil company |
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cocobabe14 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:34:49 GMT |
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| Know Andrew Carnegie: |
the guy who owned the leading oil company in the us |
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| Carrie Nation: |
carrie nation smashed the bars with the ax |
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| Clara Barton: |
helped sick and wounded soildiers during the civil war
and opened the first red cross in 1881 |
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| Jane Addams: |
helped poor kids, overthrew john powers, won the nobel peace prize in 1931 |
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| Elisha Otis: |
made the first working elevator |
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| Francis Bellamy: |
wrote the pledge of allegiance |
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cocobabe14 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:34:49 GMT |
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| Statue of Liberty: |
came from paris, was put in new york in 1886. |
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| Ellis Island: |
immigrants were brought there |
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| Chinese Exclusion Act: |
banned Chinese immigration |
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| Chinese Labor: |
the chinese came to america and would work for really low wages so then wages remained low for everyone, and people got pissed and went to the government to stop chinese immigration |
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| Armenians: |
Armenians came to america because of persecution. the armenians were christian people who lived south of the black sea under turkish rule. in 1894 the turks began a campaign of genocide against the armenians. by 1918 almost 2 million Armenians were killed. thousands fled to america to escape the massacres. |
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| New Immigration: |
when citizens from italy, russia, austria, and hungary started in 1881 |
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cocobabe14 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:34:49 GMT |
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| Old Immigration: |
is citizens from germany, great britain, ireland, Scandinavia, and france before 1880 would settle on open land because it was cheap |
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| George Washington Carver: |
thought of many uses for penuts |
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| What are cash crops? |
a crop that is grown to be sold |
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| What is a monopoly? |
the complete control over the means of producing or selling a product or service |
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| Know the business cycle: |
a repeated pattern of booms and depressions in an economy |
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| What is the AFL? |
the largest union organization in the US |
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| Knights of Labor collapse: |
started a huge strike against the railroad companies, and gained over 600,000 members |
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cocobabe14 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:27:58 GMT |
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| Why a railroad strike in 1877? |
they lowered emploee wages by 10 perecent |
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| Brooklyn Bridge: |
1883 it was built, joined brooklyn to manhattan |
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| Three kinds of merchandising: |
Department stores, chain stores, mail-order houses |
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| What are America’s natural resources? |
oil, aluminum, humans, gold, silver, copper, coal, and iron |
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| Poll tax: |
a fee paid by a person in order to vote |
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| Genocide: |
the deliberate destruction of a racial, cultural, and national group |
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| Ghetto: |
a poor, run down part of a city usually occupied by members of one minority group. |
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| Secret ballot: |
a vote that is cast privately. |
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| Gold standard: |
a government money policy under which every paper dollar is equal in value to and exchangeable for a certain amount of gold. |
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| Supply and demand: |
a rule of economics stating that when demand is great for scarce goods, prices are high, but when the supply becomes greater prices |
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| Business cycle: |
a repeated pattern of booms and depressions in an economy |
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| Depression: |
a period of drastic decline in economic activity, marked by widespread unemployment |
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| Strike: |
a work stoppage by employees usually for higher pay or better working conditions |
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| Industrialist: |
a person who owns or manages a large manufacturing business |
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cocobabe14 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:23:48 GMT |
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| Dividend: |
a share of profits paid to stockholders |
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cocobabe14 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:23:48 GMT |
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| Capital: |
the money and property needed to operate a business |
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| Free Enterprise: |
a system that allows private businesses to operate in competition with one another with little government regulation. |
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