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52 Cards in this Set
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What are the four "i"'s?
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Immigration
Innovation Industrialization Imperialism |
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What was the Homestead Act?
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If you live in the west the gov. gives the head of the family 160 acres of land.
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Who were exodusters?
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African Americans who took advantage of the homestead act.
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Which country did the Americans learn the idea of a "cowboy"?
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Mexico
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What invention ended the cowboy?
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Barbed wire
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What natural resources did Edwin Drake make popular?
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Drakes Oil Well
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Bessemer process produced what?
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Steel
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What was steel used for?
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Bridges
Railroads Skyscrappers |
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Who invented the light bulb?
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Edison
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Who invented the telephone?
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Alexander Grahm Bell
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Who invented the typewriter?
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Christopher Sholes
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What did professor C.F. Dowd propose in 1869 which by 1884 allowed the trains to reach their destination on time?
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time zones
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The grangers wre most upset about the cost of what?
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Railroad ticket costs
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What industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?
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Bessemer Steel
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John D. Rockefeller made all his money in what industry?
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Oil industry
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John D. Rockefeller created what?
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a monopoly that controlled nations oil
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What labor riot in Chicago killed 7 police officers, and caused the public to turn against labor movemetn?
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Haymarket Riot
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What immigration stations did european immigrants enter through?
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Elis Island
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What immigrantion stations did asian immigrants enter through?
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Angel Island
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The overt faoritism toward American born citizens
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Nativism
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What 2 groups of immigrants did American government limit?
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Chinese and japanese
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Which two disasters rocked the country in 1871 and 1906?
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The Great Chicago Fire and the San Fransisco Earthquake
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Name two of the solutions developed during the late 1800's to deal with the problems of urban living
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mass transit, water sanitation,
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Settlement house
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a community center in slum neighborhood that provided assitance to people
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jane Addams settlement house
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Hull house
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
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jobs awarded becuase of merit
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Who designed flatiron building
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Daniel Burnham
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Who planned central park
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Fredrick Olmstead
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Where did wilbur and orville wright take their first successful flight?
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Kitty Hawk, N.C.
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George Eastman created what
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Camera Film
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Name 2 sports that became popular in the 20th century
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baseball and boxing
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What construction project allowed the united states to create a shortcut through central america?
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transcontinental railroad, panama canal
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Who is the mayor of Chicago while the worlds fair begins?
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harrison
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What building caught on fire collapsed close to the opening of the fair?
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refrigeration building
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Four goals of the progressive movement
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protect social welfare
promote moral improvment create economic reform foster efficency |
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What were the journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life called? and give example
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muckrakers
upton sinclair |
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Which amendment to the constitution gave people the right to directly elect their us sentors?
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17th ammendment
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Which President coined the term "square deal"
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Roosevelt
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what organization did WEB DuBois help found in 1909?
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NAACP
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Which amendment granted womens suffrage?
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19th amendment
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Teddy Roosevelt troops won what major battle in the Spanish American War?
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Battle of Sanjuan Hill
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What three areas were added to the US empire folling the spanish american war? how much did we pay?
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Puerto Rico, Guam, Philipines and we payed 20 million dollars
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What constitutional provision was Cuba forced to add to its new constitution which would allow the United States to intervene in cuban affairs?
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the Platt Amendment
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Allegory
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a story in which a series of symbols creates a second meaning
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Pathos
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apeal to emotion
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Logos
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an appeal to logic
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unreliable narrator
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a narrator whose description of events should not be trusted
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bildungsroman
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a story in which the main character comes to moral maturity
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Foil
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a secondary character with similar characteristics to the main character used to highlight their differences
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framing
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starting and ending an essay or story with the same image or situation
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satire
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a literary mode that exposes human or institutional nices and in which correctice action is either implied or directly states through the use of irony, sarcasm, humor or exageration.
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parady
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in literature a comic or satrical piece of writing or art,exagerating in style and content and playing especially on any weakness in structure or meaning of the original.
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