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58 Cards in this Set
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What is a gauge?
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The width of the train tracks
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What is a network?
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A system of railroad tracks
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What is consolidate?
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To combine
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What is a pool?
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Several railroad companies agree to divide buisness in an area
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Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
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He bought railroad lines and forced small buisness to sell the buisness to himself.
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What is the Bessemer process?
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It enabled steel workers to produce steel at a lower cost
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What is Vertical Intergration?
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Gaining control of all the steps to make a finished good.
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What is a trust?
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A trust is a group of corporations runned by a single board of directors
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What is a Monopoly?
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A monopoly is a buisness that controls everything in that one section of goods.
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Who is Andrew Carnegie?
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He was a wealthy steel baron and philanthropist
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Who is John Rockefeller?
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He owned a monopoly in the Oil buisness. He owned many oil refinerers
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Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
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He was a great inventor who invented the first phone
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Who were the Knights of Labor?
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They were a large and organized Labor union. Demanded 8 hour work day.
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Who were the AFL?
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American Federation of labor
A labor union... |
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Who were the ILGWU?
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International Ladies Garmet Wearer Union
First Union that was strictly female workers |
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What were push factors for immigrants?
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Religious and political percecution
Famine |
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What were pull factors for Immigrants
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Family members in America
"Streets Paved with Gold" |
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What were settlement Houses?
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Houses that were made to help the poor and homeless
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Tenements, what were those?
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They were small apartments, usually no heat, bathrooms, or windows
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What were Building Codes?
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Standards for construction and safety
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Social Gospel?
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A call to help the poor and homeless
Christian |
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What is the Hull House?
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A settlement house started by James Addams
Very large |
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What is a vaudeville?
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A show that included comedians, song-and-dance, and acrobats
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What is ragtag?
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A new kind of music with lively, rhtymic sound
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What is compulsory education?
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Laws that required children to attend school
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What is a parochial?
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A church sponsored school
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What is the Chautauqua Society?
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A bible-based Society that lecutred on religion
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What was Yellow Journalism?
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A sensational reporting style
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What were Dime Novels?
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Low-priced paperback books
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Who were realists?
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People that tride to show the harsh side of life as it was
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What was Local Color?
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The speech and habits of a certain region.
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What was the Spoils System?
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A practice of rewarding political supporters with political jobs
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What is patronage?
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Giving Jobs to followers. usually in politics
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What were jobs based on after the Spoils System ended?
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Merit
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What was the Pendleton Act?
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An act the started the Civil Service Commission
CSC made it so all federal jobs except elected offices and military jobs were filled in based on merit. |
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What were Civil Service Exams?
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Tests that decided how high a persons merit was.
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What was the Interstate Commerce Act?
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An act that added the Interstate Commerce Commission which oversaw railroads
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What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
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An act that proghibited businesses from trying to limit or destroy competition
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Who were Political Bosses?
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Powerful politicians
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Who was Ida Tarbell?
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Muckracker
Targeted unfair practices of big business |
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Who was Upton Sinclair?
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Muckracker
Wrote The Jungle which talked about the meatpacking industry |
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Who was Lincoln Steffens?
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Muckracker
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What was public intrest?
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People who wanted the best for the people
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Who was Thomas Nast?
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He wrote famous political cartoons
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What was the Wisconsin Idea?
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Started by La Follette
Lowered railroad rates |
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What is a primary?
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An election where voters choose their party's candidate for the general election.
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What is an Initiative?
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IT gave voters the right to put a bill into government..possibly
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What is a referendum?
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Allowed voters to vote a bill into law
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What is a recall?
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Allowed voters to remove an elected bill
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What was the 16th Amendment?
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STarted a graduated income tax
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What was the 17th Amendment?
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Started direct ellection of senators
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What was the 18th Amendment?
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Prohibited sale/ manufacturing of alchohol
Was repealed |
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What was the 19th Amendment?
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Gave women the right to vote.
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What were Barrios?
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Communities made up of Mexican Americans
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Describe Theodore Roosevelt
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Was a reformer
Trustbuster of bad trusts 1906- Pure food and drug act |
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DEscribe Taft
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Raised the Protective Tarrif
Ensured max 8 hour work days |
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Describe Wilson
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Won ellection after Rep. party's vote was split
Established FTC |
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What was the bull Moose Party?
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A party established by Roosevelt
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