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56 Cards in this Set
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What did Tariff's do for America?
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Helped industry by making foreign goods more expensive
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What year did Edison open up the first electrical power plant?
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1882 in New York City
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What year did Ford introduce the assembly line?
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1913
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Who is Andrew Carnegie?
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A poor Scottish Immigrant who combined his businesses into Carnegie Steel Company
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Who is John D. Rockefeller?
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In 1882, ended competition in the oil industry by forming the Standard Oil Trust
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What is a trust?
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A group of corporations run by a single board of directors
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What is free enterprise?
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the system in which privately owned businesses compete freely
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What is Social Darwinism?
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Social Darwinism applied the idea of "survival of the fittest" to human affairs
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What were the factory Conditions?
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breathing in fibers or dust all day, steelworkers risked burns, fires,
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What is the knights of labor?
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A group of clothing workers who admitted woman, african americans, immigrants and unskilled workers
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What is the American Federation of Labor?
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A union formed by Samuel Gompers who admitted skilled workers only
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What is Collective Bargaining?
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Unions negotiate with management for workers as a group
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What is Urbanization?
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the rapid growth of city populations
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What was the reasons for rapid urbanization?
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Cities attracted industry, and and Americans came to cities in search of jobs and excitement
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What kind of technology helped cities grow?
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elevated trains, public transportation, and electric streetcar
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What were some problems of urban life?
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fires and poor living conditions
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What were some poor conditions in tenament houses?
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apartments had no windows, heat, or indoor plumbing and rodes were littered with garbage
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Who is Jane Adams?
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A reformer who worked hard for poor city dwellers and in 1889 opened Hull House in Chicago
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What were some excitements of city life?
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downtown shopping areas, leisure activities, and electric lights
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What were some leisure activites?
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museums, orchestra, art gallery, and theatre
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What are some reasons for migration?
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religious freedom, more jobs, and building a better life
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What is assimilation?
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the process of becoming part of another culture
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Who assimilated more quickly?
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Children because they were surrounded by english speakers in school
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What were some contributions of immigrants?
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helped build subways, skyscrapers, and bridges
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What is an Anarchist?
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A person who opposes all forms of government
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What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
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A law passes in 1882 to exclude chinese laborers from the U.S.
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What is Compulsory Education?
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requirement that children attend school up to a certain age
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Who are realists?
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writers who try to show life as it is
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Examples of realist writers
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Stephen Crane and Mark Twain
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What is yellow journalism?
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describe the sensational reporting style
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What is Civil Service?
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a system that includes most goverment jobs, except elected positions, the judiciary, and the military
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What was a key source of corruption?
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spoils system
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what is the spoils system?
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the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs
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What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
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It forbade practices such as rebates
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What is the Wisconsin Idea?
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In 1903 Wisconsin was the first state to adopt a primary
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What is a primary?
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an election in which voters, rath than party leaders, choose their party's candidate
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What is the Sixteenth Amedment?
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ratified in 1913 and gave congress the power to pass an income tax
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What is the seventeeth Amendment?
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ratified in 1913 and required the direct election of senetors
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Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
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26th president from 1901 - 1909
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What is the Square Deal?
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Everyone from farmers and consumers to workeers and owners should have the same opportunity to win
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What did TR do to conserve natural resources?
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formed the U.S. Forest service in 1905 to conserve nation's woodlands and created national park
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How did TR protect consumers?
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forced congress to pass a law in 1906 allowing closer inspections of meatpacking houses
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What is the FTC?
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Federal Trade Commision and they had the power to investigate companies and order them to stop using unfair practices to destroy competitors
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What is the Federal Reserve Act?
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passed by Congress in 1913 to set up a system of federal banks
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What is the 19th Amendment?
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Passed by congress in 1919 gauranteeing woman the right to vote
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What is the 18th Amendment?
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passed by vongress in 1919 and enforced prohibition
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What is prohibition?
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A ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
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Who is Booker T. Washington?
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helped found the Tuskegee Institute in 1881 offering training in industrial and agricultural skills
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Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
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first african american to recieve a PHD from Harvard and criticized Washington for being willing to accept segregation
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What is the NAACP?
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an association where blacks nad whites worked for equal rights for African Americans
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What is Lynching?
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murder by a mob
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What are Barrios?
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Ethnic Mexican American neighborhoods
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What did Japanese immigrants do?
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settled on dry, barren land and were farmers
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What is the Gentlemans Agreement?
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1907 by TR which Japan would stop any more workers from going to the United States
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What is anti - semitism?
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prejuduce against Jews
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What is the Anti - Defimation League?
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worked to promote understanding and fight prejudice against Jews
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