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36 Cards in this Set
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Social Darwinism |
Riches being a sign of gods favor and poor was a sign of laziness and inferiority |
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Segregation |
The separation of races in public |
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Paying for voting |
Poll tax
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Gilded age |
When America looked good but it was really bad |
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3 reasons for growth in America before 1900's |
1. Natural resources 2. Government support 3. Urbanization
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Railroad builders were who |
Chinese, Irish, ww verterans looking for a job |
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Sherman anti trust act |
Made monopolies illegal |
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People who used cut throat tactics to and will do anything to become rich are what |
Robber barons |
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Immigrants before 1890 *think of _________ famine |
Irish |
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Immigrants after 1890 |
Italians and chinese
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The moving from rural areas to cities was called |
Urbanization |
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Carnegie owned a what |
Steel company called US steel |
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Political boss did what |
Controlled jobs, business licenses and influenced the court system |
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What printed on both sides of the paper |
Printing press |
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Early public education |
12-16 weeks of school, teachers not qualified |
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African Americans were what |
Excluded from secondary education |
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What Were the Jim Crow laws |
Laws put i place to hurt African americans; segregation laws |
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Public hanging from a tree was called what |
Lynching |
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3 types of discrimination |
1. Education 2. Social places like public 3. Jobs |
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Plessy vs. ferguson |
School board case with the Supreme Court fighting the separate but equal law |
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Who was a wisconsin republican that led the way to regulations big business |
Robert la follette |
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Origins of progress |
1. Work conditions 2. Rights for women and children 3.economic reform 4.environment 5. Social welfare |
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Who was Ida Tarbell |
A muckcracker that exposed standard oil's cut throat tactics |
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Journalist who exposed curruption in a business were called what |
muckcrackers |
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What did women in the work force want |
The right to vote |
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What were trust |
Legal bodied created to hold stock in many companies |
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What was a trustbuster |
People who breakup companies that had trust; monopolies |
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What book was about the unsanitary condition is the meet industry |
The jungle by upton sinclair
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What was the pure food and drug act |
an act that halted the sale of contamininated foods and foods with drugs in them and called for truth in labeling |
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What park did teddy Roosevelt first establish |
Yellowstone park |
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Name 4 of the urban problems |
1.housing 2. Sanitation 3.crime 4. Water 5. Fire 6.transportstion |
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what two states were Ellis island a part of |
New york and New Jersey |
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what was a graft |
a business bribe |
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how do you make steel |
You take carbon out of iron |
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Where did the wright brothers first fly their plane |
North Carolina |
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what person ran political machine *name of a person |
Boss Tweed |
