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30 Cards in this Set
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Who built the first transcontinental railroad?
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Central Pacifc and Union Pacific
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Why were electric motors significant to the industrialization of the late nineteenth century?
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Freed factories to work where they wished in early Industrial Revolution
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Why did Chinese refer to the Geary Act of 1892 as the “Dog Tag Law?”
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It required Chinese to carry residential permits at all times
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Why did tenant farmers have no incentive to care for the farmland on which they lived?
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Farmers didn’t own the land
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Why did range wars erupt in the West by the nineteenth century?
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Water shortage/problems
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Why did the U.S. government open Ellis Island?
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Too much corruption in NYC
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What desire did the spread of public education between the 1880s and 1900 reflect?
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It reflected the desire/strive to Americanize immigrants. Reinforced American values and the desire for immigrants to speak English
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What was the percent of voter turnout during the Gilded Age?
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Roughly between 70-80%, people’s jobs depended on the elections
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Why was Munn v. Illinois (1877) historically significant?
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The Supreme Court said it was constitutional for states to regulate business and industries under their police power
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Describe the Open Door policy.
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John Haye proposed foreign powers keep trade to China open to all nations equally.
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What happened when the United States and Colombia could not agree on a price for the Canal Zone?
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Manufactured insurrections with rebels, recognized them as the gov’t of Panama and bought the canal zone from them
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What was authorized by the Seventeenth Amendment?
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The popular election of U.S Senators allowing for more democracy.
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Why did Woodrow Wilson win the 1912 presidential election?
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The Republican party was split between Teddy and Howard Taft
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Was the Arabic Pledge about President Wilson’s decision to stop North Africa’s fall into chaos during World War I?
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No
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Was former president Theodore Roosevelt one of the biggest supporters of the League of Nations?
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No
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Identify the members of the Triple Entente.
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France, Great Britain, and Russia
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Did the Lusitania secretly carry weapons and ammunition in its cargo?
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Yes
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What was “the heart of the League?
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Treaty of Versailles
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Were people of Latin American descent the fastest growing ethnic minority in the U.S. during the 1920s?
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Yes
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Who was the author of Cane (1923)?
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Jean Tooner
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Who developed the “uncertainty principle?
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Verner Heisenburg
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Did President Hoover actively pursue avenues to help the nation’s economy recover?
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Yes
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Who was the “Ohio gang?
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A group of people who supported Warren Harding
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Did the tariff policy of the early 1920s make it harder for other nations to sell to the United States?
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Yes
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Did it help 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Al Smith that he was both a New Yorker and a Catholic?
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No
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What was the greatest cause of the October 1929 stock market crash?
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Weak foundation supported by buying stock on credit
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Did FDR reorganize all federal farm credit agencies into the Farm Credit Administration by executive decree?
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Yes
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What percent of Americans were unemployed in 1932?
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25%
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What transition during the early twentieth century made the dust storms worse than normal?
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Subsistence farming by two types of farmers, soil gets weakened
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Why is Norris v. Alabama (1935) historically significant?
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Allowed systematic exclusion of blacks and allowed defendants equal protection of laws
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