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14 Cards in this Set
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Republican Progressives
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Most supported Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election
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Federal Reserve System
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Createdby Pre. Wilson as a measure to prevent bank failures
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President Roosevelt's progressive record
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Included: conservation of forest land, break up of several trusts deemed harmful to the public, regulation of food and drugs.
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Urbanization
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In the late 1800's: increased segregation and violence against African Americans, the large numbers of immigrants to the US, mechanization in agriculture
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Wood
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the least important to the growth of industry in the last half of the 1800's
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Bimetallism
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would allow for the exchange of paper currency in either silver or gold
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Thomas Edison
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Invented the electric light bulb and the central power station
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Scabs
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replacement workers who were not popular with striking workers in the 1800's
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muckrakers
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journalists who stirred up the public
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Ellis Island
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the immigration processing center in New York City (East Coast)
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Angel Island
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the immigration processing center in
San Francisco, (west coast) |
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Grandfather Clause
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did NOT keep African Americans in the south form voting
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President Lincoln vetoed the Reconstruction Plan porposed by Congress because
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he thought the plan was too severe
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Fifteenth (15) Amendment
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no citizen could be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous servitude
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