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Under Radical Reconstruction southern states were going to be divided into how many military districts
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Five
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Impeachment
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To formally charge a public official with misconduct in the office.
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Durring Reconstruction what act was passed which forbid the President from firing office holders without the consent of the Senate?
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Tenure of Office Act
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What was set up to distribute clothing, food, and education for the blacks?
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Freedman's Bureau
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What is the name given to white southerners who cooperated with the newly formed state governments?
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Scallawags
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What ammendment gave black males the right to vote?
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15th
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What ammendment abolished slavery?
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13th
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What ammendment provided citizenship?
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14th
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In the decades following Reconstruction, whites voting Democratic became known as...
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The Solid South
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What was the Tenure of Office Act?
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Was passed during the Reconstruction; forbid the President from firing office holders without the consent of the Senate.
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What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
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A distribution set up to give clothing, food, and education to the blacks.
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What did the Black Codes do?
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Restricted the freedom of African Americans in the South.
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Who are two famous Republicans?
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Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner
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What Supreme Court case upheld separate but equal facilities?
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Plessy v.s. Furgeson
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Under what terms was the Republican control of the Presidency not challenged in return for an end to military presence in the South?
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Compromise of 1877
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What was the Compromise of 1877?
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Gave terms that allowed the Republican control of the Presidency unchallanged in return for an end to military presence in the South.
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What did Radical Reconstruction fail to provide ex-slaves with?
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Land
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What was the name of the courthouse that was the site of the surrender of the south after Civil War?
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Appomattox Courthouse
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Why did the Radical Republicans object to Lincoln's reconstruction plan?
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They thought it was too easy.
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Who adopted Lincoln's plans for Reconstruction?
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Andrew Johnson
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What was the outcome of Andrew Johnson's impeachment?
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He remained in office by 1 vote.
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Who were Carpetbaggers?
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Former Northern Union soldiers who stayed in the south or returned to the south following the Civil War.
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Where was the battle in Pennsylvania that proved to be the turning point in the Civil War?
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Gettysburg
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Congress passed the Recontruction Act of 1867 after all but one of the former Confederate states rejected what ammendment?
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14th
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What was the only stated to ratify the 14th amendment?
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Tennessee
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What laws were passed after the Civil War that segregated schools and public facilities?
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Jim Crow Laws
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What were Jim Crow Laws?
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Laws passed after the Civil War that segregate schools and public facilities.
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What was the plan of the federal government to rebuild and reestablish the state?
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Reconstruction
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What is Reconstruction?
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The plan of the federal government to rebuild and reestablish the state.
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Who assasinated President Lincoln while he was attending a play?
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John Wilks Booth
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Who is the famous Sioux Indian chief who was killed on a reservation igniting Wounded Knee?
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Sitting Bull
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Who was Sitting Bull?
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Was the famous Sioux indian chief who was killed on a reservation igniting Wounded Knee.
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Where was George Custer defeated?
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Little Bighorn
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Who was the Indian chief who tried to lead his tribe to Canada?
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Chief Joseph
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When did indian resistance to whites increase?
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When gold prospectors invaded Indian territory.
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What was the Chizom trail?
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The trial that cowboys used to drive cattle to a railroad line for sale.
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Where did cattle drives originate?
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Texas
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What were 3 hardships settlers faced while living on the Great Plains?
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Lack of trees, weather, and indians
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What was dry farming?
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One approach to farming the Great Plains; when farmers planted seeds in the ground where moisture could get to them.
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What is placer mining?
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Method of extraction mineral ore by hand using simple tools like picks, shovels, and pans.
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What two developments led to the downfall of the famous cattle drivers?
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Barbed wire and railroad
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What is quartz mining?
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A method of extracting minerals involving digging beneath the surface/
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What qualifications did a person have to meet in order to be considered for the Homestead Act?
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Head of family, U.S. citizen, 21 years old, and live on the land for at least 5 years.
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Where did the last Indian tragedy occur?
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Wounded Knee
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Where was a rich deposit of silver in Nevada?
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Comstock Lode
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What two railroads that made up the transcontinental railroad?
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Union Pacific and the Central Pacific
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What is a Horizontal Integration company?
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One that expands in one area of production by buying out competitors.
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What is Laissez-Faire?
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The theory that government should interfere as llittle as possible in the nation's economy?
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Who discovered a way to transmit voices over wire?
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Alexander Gram Bell
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Where was the site of the first oil well?
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Titusville, Pennsylvania
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What did the Wright Brothers do?
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Made the first manned power flight in history on the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk.
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What did Thomas Edision do?
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Invented the electric light bulb
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What did John Rockefeller do?
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Built the Standard Oil Company into a giant American industry.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Built U.S. steel into a giant American industry
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Promontory Summit
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The site in Utah where two railroads met
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What was the site in Utah where two railroads met?
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Promontory summit
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What is a company that controls all the processes of its industry from a raw material to finished product referred to as?
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Vertical Intigration
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Vertical Intigration
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A company that controls all the processes of its industry from a raw material to finished product
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Corporation
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An orgaization owned by many people but treated by law as though it were a single person
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The court order demanded an end to what strike?
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Pullman
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Employers
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The people the government supported in the major strikes of the late 1800's
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Anarchist
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A person who belives that there should be no government
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The Great Rail Road Strike
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Resulted from a 10% wage cut
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Who got hurt from the Haymart Riot incident in 1886?
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The Knights of Labor's reputation
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What were ways to discourage the competition?
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Pools and trusts
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Who adapted easily to life in America?
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Children
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Where did "new"immigrants to America come from?
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Eastern and Southern Europe
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Where did the "old"immigrants to America come from?
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Northern and Western Europe
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Was passed in 1882; prevented the Chinese from immigrating for 10 years
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Settlement House
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An institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care and classes in English
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What characterized the Guilded Age?
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Political corruption, poverty and crive, differences in weath
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Graft
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The acquisition of money in dishonest ways, as in bribing a politician
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Steerage
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the lowest deck for passengers paying the lowest fee
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Suburbs
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where middle class people in the late 19th century tended to live
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What two religions were represented by most of the new immigrants after 1880?
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Catholic and Jewish
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Tenements
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were first built in the 19th century to house the poor as cheaply as possible
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Cities
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Where immigrants adjusted well in America
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Mass transit systems enabled what to spread out?
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Cities
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Why were new immigrants seen as a threat by some Americans?
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Worked for lower wages
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Tammany Hall
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the famouse New York Democratic Political Machine
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Brooker T. Washington founded what?
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the Tuskegee Institute
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William Boss Tweed
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was a corrupt party boss in a political machine in New York City
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Ellis Island
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was the processing center for the vast majority of immigrants
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Angel Island
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was th location of barracks in California to accommodate Asian immigrants
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Mugwamps
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a term that referred to Republicans who decided to support the Democratic candidate in the election of 1884 rather than their party's nomination
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Pendlton Act
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under it people would gain government jobs according to their performance on examinations
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What did Jane Addams found?
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Hull House
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What were two Republican factions during the Gilded Age?
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Stallwarts and Half-breeds
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Spoils System
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offering government jobs to voters and campaign workers in return for their help in winning elections
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Who killed President Garfield?
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Charles Guiteau
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Exodusters
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refers to poor Black farmers who migrated to Kansas in 1879
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When did presidential candidates win the popular vote but still lose the election?
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1886 and 1888
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Who adopted a lot of Populist's ideas?
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Democrats
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What where the three demands of the Populist Party?
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Secret ballots, direct election of senators, government ownership of industries
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Which group voted against the Democrats in the election of 1896 because it feared the expansion of the money supply woud lead to high prices?
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Industrial Workers in the east
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Deflation
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money increasing in value
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Inflation
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money decreasing in value
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William Jennings Brian
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In the Presidential election of 1896, this Democratic candidate supported low tariffs, government regulation of businesses, and income tax; he was a a loser, the Lion in the Wizard of Oz
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Williams Mckinley
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In the Presidential election of 1896 this Republican candidate supported high tariffs, the gold standard, and other policies favoring business; winner, the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz
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Boxer Rebellion
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a revolt in China against foreigners
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George Dewey
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Became an instant hero when he destroyed the Spanish fleet at manila Bay
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Open Door Policy
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the privilege of trading with China should be open to all nations
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When did the U.S. grant Philippines their independence?
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1946
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Alfred Mahon's book the Influence Of Sea Power Upon History suggested that what was the secret of the world?
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large navy
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What was the U.S. Navy referred to as?
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The Great White Fleet
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What did Matthew Perry do?
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Opened up trade with Japan
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Where did the first battle of the Spaish-American war occur?
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The Philippines
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Panama belonged to Colombia before?
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the Panama Canal
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After the Spanish-American War, the U.S. would free and annex?
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Free Cuba and Annex the Philippines, Purto Rico, and Guam
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Platt Amendment
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Gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuba
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Maine
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The U.S. Naval ship that was blown up in a Cuban Harbor. Later evidence revealed that it was caued by an accident.
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Who sent military forces to Panama in 1903 to help the Panamanians revolt against Colombia?
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Teddy Roosevelt
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Delome Letter
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A letter that claimed that President McKinley was weak
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Spanish American War
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triggered an interest in building an intercoastal canal
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The Panama Canal
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connects the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean
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Nashville
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the U.S. battle ship sent to Panama to prevent Colombian troops from crushing the Panamanian Rebellion
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Where was the location of a naval battle during the Spanish American War and later became the site for the rebellion against U.S. domination?
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Phillipines
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Who sold Alaska to the U.S.?
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Russia
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What group of people failed to make significant gains during the Progressive Period?
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African Americans
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What conflict in terms of lives and money was far greater than the Spanish American War?
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U.S. verses the Filipinos
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Initiative
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the right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval
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What two reporters exaggerated news reporting at the turn of the century?
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Hurst nad Politzer
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Imperialism
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the actions used by one nation to exercise political or economic control over a smaller or weaker nation
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What amendment allowed Senators to be chosen by popular vote?
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17th
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Recall
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the procedure by which a public official may be voted out of office before the next election
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Referendum
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the practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature
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Primary System
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Election that narrows the field of candidates before an election for office
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Payne Aldrich Tariff
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Taft gave the impression that he sold the Square Deal down the river by backing speaker Joe Canon, by supporting Ballinger against Pinchot and signing the tariff
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Teddy Roosevelt
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became President when William McKinley was assasinated
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Who assasinated President McKinley?
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Leon Czolgosz
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Where was city commission first used?
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Galveston, Texas
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The Square Deal is associated with what President?
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Roosevelt
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After the assasination of President McKinley, the next three Presidnets were...
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Roosevelt, Taft, Willson
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Who was the leader of the Rough Riders?
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Leond Wood
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In what era were investigative journalists known as Muckrakers?
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Progressive Era
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What company tragedy led to the passage of strict building codes dealing with fire hazards?
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company
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The Jungle
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Upton Sinclair's book; Roosevelt appointed a commission to study the meat packing plants
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Tried to win the Republican nominations in 1912 because he believed that Taft had failed to live up to the Progressive ideals. This caused a split in their party.
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Teddy Roosevelt
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Showed that the governement could help solve labor management disputes during the coal strike of 1902
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Teddy Roosevelt
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What was Teddy Roosevelt's nickname in the 1912 election?
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Bull Moose
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What is the amendment that banned the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages?
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18th
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What is the amendment that provided for women's sufferage?
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19th
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What amendment provided and income tax?
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16th
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What amendment repealed the 18th amendment?
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21st
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Where did the opening conflict of WWI take place?
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Austria-Hungary and Serbia
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In what document did Germany promise to give Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona to Mexico?
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The Zimmermen Telegramm
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What are the four underlying factors of WWI?
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Imperialsism, Nationalism, Militaryianism, and Secret alliances
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When was WWI armistice signed?
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November 11, 1918; the eleventh month on the eleventh day at the eleventh hour
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Who made up the tripe entante?
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Britain, France, and Russia
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U-boats
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German submarines
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Who are the BIG FOUR countries who attended the peace conference in WWI?
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U.S., France, Great Britain, and Italy
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Sussex Pledge
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A promise by the germans not to sink anymore merchant ships without warning. It was created to keep the U.S. from joining with the Allies
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What country underwent a revolution durring WWI?
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Russia
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Whose assassination in Sarajevo ignited WWI?
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Great Migration
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African Americans moved from southern states to northern states
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Red Scare
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The fear that Communist and anarchists would take over the government after WWI.
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What did the U.S declare during the state of WWI?
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Neutrality
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What was the result of the Senate's opposition to the Leauge of Nations?
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Treaty of Verssailles
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Who made up the Triple Alliance?
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
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What was the oganization U.S. never joined, that was established after WWI that was designed to prevent any further wars?
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League of Nations
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What were Wilson's proposals for peace after WWI referred to as?
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The 14 points
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Who headed the Food Administration during WWI?
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Herbert Hoover
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What is a temporary pause agreed to by both sides in a war or battle called?
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Truce
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Who assassinated Archducke Ferdinand?
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Gavrilo Princip
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Black Hand
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A terrorist group responsible for the assasination of both the Archduke and his wife Sophia
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What British vessel was sunk by a German U-boat and one-hundred and twenty-eight Americans were killed?
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Lusitania
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Who was sent to command 6000 troops to Mexico?
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John J. Pershing; he later became leader of the American Expeditionary Force in WWI
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Who was the bandit John J. Pershing was sent to capture?
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Pancho Villa
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Schlieffen Plan
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A German plan to knock out the French army first and then concentrate on Russia
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What act enforced Prohibition?
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The Volstead Act
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Charles Lindbergh flew across what Ocean to Paris?
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Atlantic Ocean
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What two immigrants were convicted of murder because they were anarchists during the Red Scare following WWI?
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Who was the school teacher who was put on trial for teaching evolution?
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John Scopes
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What was the American soldiers nickname during WWI?
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Doughboys
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Involved the leasing of lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves by the Secretary of Interior Alberta Falls
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What did W.E.B. DuBois found?
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NAACP; National Association for the Advancement of colored people
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Assembly Line
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the system of manufacturing adopted by Henry Ford which divided operations into simple tasks
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Who appointed friends/ the Ohio Gang to government position?
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Warren G. Harding
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What was Babe Ruth's nickname?
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Sultan of Swat
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