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Preservationist
Founded the Sierra Club
John Muir
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Destroyed Indian tribes
Introduced private land ownership
Feds gave native households land, leftover land sold off
After 25 years natives get US citizenship
Pueblo, Zuni, Hopi excluded. Tribes went underground.
Dawes Act
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Ranchers fought over land while laying barbed wire
Border/water issues
Famous - Lincoln County War
Range Wars
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wrote A Sentry of Dishonor
HH Jackson
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Standard Oil
"no competition = efficiency"
JD Rockefeller
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The black Moses
Argued blacks couldn't make it in South, led them West
Followers were Exodusters
B Singleton
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Bethlehem Steel
Sold company, wrote The Gospel of Wealth
A Carnegie
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The Industrial Workers of the World
Syndicalism = violence is acceptable to meet goals
W Haywood
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Invented barbed wire
J Glidden
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Lots of $$, saved banks, lent to gov
Bought Carnegie Steel, created USS (US Steel)
J P Morgan
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Founder of KKK
hate blacks, carpetbaggers, scalawags
NB Forrust
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1: Evangelism - Washington Gladden saved people
-Social responsibility for the troubled
2: Revivalism - Billy Sunday / Dwight Moody
-Personal responsibility
Social Gospel Movement
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Roman Catholic Response to the Social Gospel Movement
The Knights of Columbus
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Super rich
Positive view = Captains of Industry
Negative view = Robber Barons
Plutocrats and their images
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-George Wheeler
-Ferdinand Haydon
-Clarence King (mapped Rockies, first director of US Geological Survey)
-John Wesley Powell (first citizen to nav the CO river)
The Big 4
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Tenure of Office Act, Military Act
How radicals controlled pres. Johnson
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Only congress could fire employees that were appointed by the Pres.
Tenure of Office Act
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Any presidential military orders must be approved by generals
Military Act
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Grant's administration
Political corruption, excess materialism
Everything blamed on Grant by the Dem's
The Gilded Age
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Worker agrees not to join a union while employed
Yellow Dog Contracts
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Black man, "Bible totin'"
Freedman's Bureau
OO Howard
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