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25 Cards in this Set
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What invention allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from Rivers? |
Electricity |
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Why was Pullman Illinois an unusual town? |
Built by a company to house its workers |
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What was social Darwinism? |
Social evolution |
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What did the Industrial consolidation and trusts reduce during the late eighteen hundreds? |
Competition between steel companies |
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Who organized the industrial workers of the world iww? |
Radical unionist and socialist |
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What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act? |
Federal Government Can supervise the railroads |
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How did Andrew Carnegie gain control of the large percentage of the steel industry? |
Buying his competition |
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What was the Sherman Antitrust Act? |
Outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade |
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What was collective bargaining? |
Win workers rights |
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What is the vertical integration? |
Buys out suppliers to control materials |
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Where was Angel Island? |
San Francisco Bay |
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What was the main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act? |
First significant Laura stripping immigration to us |
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What was the main goal of the Americanization movement? |
Limit the number of immigrants entering the US |
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What group founded settlement houses in the late eighteen hundreds? |
Hullhouse- Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr |
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Define graft |
Bribery |
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What was the Tammany Hall? |
Government building |
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Define patronage |
Government jobs to those who helped candidate get elected |
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Why was President James A. Garfield assassinated? |
Angered stalwarts by giving reformers most of his patronage jobs |
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Which president changed ideas on civil service reform when he gained the presidency? |
Chester Arthur |
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What was the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883? |
Appointments based on exam scores |
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What development allowed cities to expand in the late 19th century? |
Skyscrapers railroads electricity |
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What inventions made it possible for skyscrapers to be built? |
Steel |
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What were Jim Crow laws? |
Racial segregation laws |
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What did the US Supreme Court decide in the case Plessy V. Ferguson? |
Ruled that the separation of races in public is legal |
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What did Booker T. Washington believed would end racism? |
They need to show how much they work to the white man |
