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39 Cards in this Set
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1865-1914
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growth of cities due to immigrants looking for better life
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"new immigrant"
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unskilled, poor, catholics, or jewish from eastern southern europe
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ellis island
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port of entry for european immigrants
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angel island
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port of entry for asian immigrants in S.F.
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nativism
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prejudice aganist immigrants
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chinese exclusion act
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law that did not allow chinese immigrants into U.S.
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tenement housing
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cheap dangerous apartments that poor immigrants lived in
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gilded age
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america was golden on outside and rotten in the middle
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assimilation
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used on native americans it means to adopt white culture
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dawes act
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made indinas adopt the white style of taking owning land
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homestead act
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gave 160 acres to anyone who wroks land for 5 years
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exodusters
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black americans who left the south to claim land and become farmers in the midwest
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jim crow laws
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laws that kept black and whites segregated
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3 ways blacks were kept from voting
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1. poll tax
2. literacy test 3. grandfather clause |
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booker t. washington
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tuskegee institute/believed black should go to vo techs
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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believed blacks should get liberall arts degrees
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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seperate but equal
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gold standard
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belief tha nationwide currency should be in gold not paper money
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pendleton civil service act
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stopped corrupt hiring in the government. made applicants take civil service exam
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populist party
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political grass roots party in 1892
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muckraker
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writers that exposed corrupt politicians and businessman
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upton sinclair
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wrote the jungle about the meat businesses
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4 new election rules
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1. direct primary
2. initiative 3. referendum 4. recall |
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19th amendment
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gave women the righ to vote
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square deal
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theodore roosevelt's progressive plan
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meat inspection act
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square deal plan to regulate meat industry (the jungle)
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pure food and drug act
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TRUTH IN LABELING on food products
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16th amendment
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gave gov. power to use income tax
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18th amendment
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outlawed consumption or slae of alcoholic beverages
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imperialism
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when strong nations take over weaker countries to get something from them
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alfred t. mahan
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wrote "the influence of sea power upon history" he wanted strong navy
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social darwinism
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belief that certain races are superior to others
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3 reasons for start of spanish american war
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1. yellow press
2. delome letter 3. sinking of USS maine |
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john hay
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open door policy-wanted china open to trade
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platt amendment
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gave US control or protectorate of cuba after spanish american war
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"big sticlk" diplomacy
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teddy roosevelts plan to be the police of latin america
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roosevelt corollary
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US plan to keep europe out of western hemipshere
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panama canal
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canal that connected pacific and alantic oceans
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pancho villa
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mexican bandit who was chased by general pershing throughtout mexico
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