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20 Cards in this Set
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William Jennings Bryan
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Three-time presidential nominee, who ran against McKinley on a platform advocating free coinage of silver
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Andrew Carnegie
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Industrialist who dominated the new steel industry
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Comstock Lode
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Nevada site of very rich silver mines
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Commodore George Dewey
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Commander of the U.S. naval forces that destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay
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Lt. Colonel George Custer
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American military commander who led troops massacred at Little Big Horn
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Dawes Act of 1887
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Broke up tribal lands into 160-acre plots, which were distributed among individual Indians
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Joseph Glidden
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Inventor of barbed wire, which led to the enclosure of land on the open range
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Samuel Gompers
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Leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Great American Desert
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The last western frontier, the Great American Plains
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Homestead Act of 1862
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Promised U.S. settlers 160 acres of public land in the West if they lived on it for five years and paid a small fee
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Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill
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American victory in Cuba
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Oliver Hudson Kelley
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Founder of the Grange, a political and social organization for farmers
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Ku Klux Klan
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Anti-African American and anti-Semitic organization
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Major General Nelson Miles
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Commander of the U.S. armed forces in Cuba during the Spanish-American War
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William Randolph Hearst
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Proponent of yellow journalism
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John D. Rockefeller
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President of Standard Oil Company
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Teddy Roosevelt
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Member of the U.S. First Volunteer Cavalry during the Spanish-American War
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Philippines
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Location of an insurrection led by nationalist guerillas after the Spanish-American War
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Puerto Rico
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A U.S. possession in the Caribbean after 1898
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Sitting Bull
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Lakota chief who eventually joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
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