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23 Cards in this Set
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The textile mill owners of early 19th cenury America hired mainly femail workers b/c
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women worked for lower wages
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the ealiest AMER textile mills, like those set up by Samuel Slater were powered by
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water
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who invented the reaper
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cyrus McCormick
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union organized by a group of radical unionists and socialists
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Industrial workers of the World (IWW)
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the goal of interstacte Commerce act
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lower excessive RR rates
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what was social Darwinism against
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gov regulation
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was not successfully enforced against big business
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shirman antitrust act
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workers to replace those who striked
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scabs
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what made it possible to create sky scrappers
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the invention of the elevator
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what caused the creation of standardized time
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RR
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holding companies and trusts functioned to reduce
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competition
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government troops were used to
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break strikes
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decreased the amt of chinese in AMERICA
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chinese exclusion act
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setllement houses were founded by
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social reformers
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NYC political machine
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Tammany Hall
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an example of patronage
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appointing a friend to political position
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who was considered an ally of the pollitical machine
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urban lower class
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an immigrant who went to ellis island was least likelyt to come from
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asia
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southern states used the grandfather clause to allow them to
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keep AA from voting while whites could do so
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children attending schools were not likely to
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go on to college
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racial seg in public accommodations was legal if they were equal ruled in what case
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plessy vs ferguson
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In order for congress to pass a bill, each house must pass the bill by..
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2/3 majority
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how long is a federal judge in office
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life
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