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1st 2nd Semester Test Flashcards

1
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What era does the gilded age represent?

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1870s - 1890s

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2
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How many people left rural America for the cities during the gilded age?

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7 million

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3
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What were the main two entrance points for the immigrants?

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Ellis and Angel islands

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4
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What is the desire for politics that favor native born Americans?

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Nativism

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5
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What were the desirable races?

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British German and Scandinavian

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6
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What were the undesirable races?

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Slav Latin and Asiatic races

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7
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What act said that no more Chinese could enter into America?

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Chinese exclusion act

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8
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What was the social campaign to assimilate new immigrants into American culture?

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Americanization movement

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9
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Who wrote the book Hull House in 1889?

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Jane Addams

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10
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What were signs of urbanization?

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Poverty, mass transit – trolleys, tenements – shack apartments, crime and disaster

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11
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What group put forth the desirable and undesirable races?

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Immigration restriction league

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12
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What president came up with the square deal?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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13
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What is it when all companies raise their prices in secret with each other?

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Trust

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14
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What party did Theodore Roosevelt come up with?

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Bull-Moose party

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15
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What made company officials involved in a trust can be prosecuted and explicitly legalizes unions and strikes?

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Clayton antitrust act

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16
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What was the time period of the progressive era?

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1900 - 1920

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17
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What was the 16th amendment?

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Federal income tax

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18
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What was the 17th amendment?

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Direct election of Senators

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19
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What was the 18th amendment?

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Prohibition of manufacture sale or transport of intoxicating liquors

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20
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What was the 19th amendment?

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Women’s suffrage

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21
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Who came up with the 10% plan for the South’s reconstruction?

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Abraham Lincoln

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22
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What at the South under marshall law except for Tennessee?

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Reconstruction act of 1867

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23
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What made up the compromise of 1877?

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Hayes will become president 1. removal of remaining federal troops 2. federally funded railroad network in the south 3. Democrats to Hayes cabinet

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24
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What was the meeting point between savagery and civilization, a place of rapid and effective Americanization?

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Frontier

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25
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Who was Abraham Lincoln successor?

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Andrew Johnson

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26
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Which state was this man involved with politics?

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Tennessee

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27
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He was the only senator to do what?

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Stay in the union

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28
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What was the period during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War and started to readmit the Confederate states?

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Reconstruction

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29
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What was another name for Lincolns proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction?

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Ten percent plan

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30
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Who were the radical Republicans led by?

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Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens

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31
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Where is Charles Sumner from?

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Massachusetts

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32
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Where is Thaddeus Stevens from?

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Pennsylvania

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33
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What propose that Congress should be responsible for the reconstruction instead of the president?

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Wade - Davis bill

34
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What did Lincoln use to kill the Wade - Davis Bill?

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Pocket veto

35
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Which amendment abolished slavery?

A

13th Amendment

36
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Was Johnson in favor of letting former slaves gain the right to vote?

A

No

37
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Who led the radical Republican legislators?

A

Thaddeus Stevens

38
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What assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing and food?

A

Freedmen’s bureau

39
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Johnson shocked everyone when he vetoed both the Freedmen’s Bureau act and the civil rights act

A

Yes

40
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What were discriminatory laws that severely restricted African-American lives?

A

Black codes

41
Q

Who has the sole power to impeach federal officials?

A

The House of Representatives

42
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What act stated that the president cannot remove cabinet members?

A

Tenure of office act and would have to get consent of the Senate

43
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What Gov. from New York ran against Ulysses S. Grant for the presidency?

A

Seymour

44
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What’s states that no one could be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

A

15th Amendment

45
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Who was the 15th amendment an important victory for?

A

Radicals

46
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Who gave the federal government more power to punish those who try to prevent African-Americans from exercising their rights?

A

Enforcement act of 1870

47
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Where was Andrew Carnegie born?

A

Scotland

48
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What business was Andrew Carnegie’s?

A

Steel

49
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What is a process in which you buy out your suppliers?

A

Vertical integration

50
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What is it called when companies producing similar products merge?

A

Horizontal integration

51
Q

What was the name of Charles Darwin’s book?

A

On the origin of species

52
Q

What is complete control over industries production of wages and prices?

A

Monopoly

53
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Late 19th century social philosophers offered a different explanation for Carnegie success

A

Social Darwinism

54
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Who established the standard oil Company?

A

Rockefeller

55
Q

What are people who run separate companies as one large corporation?

A

A group of trustees

56
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What made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries?

A

Sherman antitrust act

57
Q

Who formed the national labor union?

A

Sylvis

58
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Who was president of the American Federation of labor?

A

Gompers

59
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Which union used strikes as a major tactic?

A

American Federation of labor

60
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Who attempted to form the American Railway Union?

A

Debs

61
Q

What is an economic and political system based on government control of business and property and equal distribution of wealth?

A

Socialism

62
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Who headed the industrial workers of the world?

A

Big Bill Haywood

63
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What was the nickname for the industrial workers of the world?

A

Wobblies

64
Q

What protested police brutality?

A

The Haymarket affair

65
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What did employees have to sign swearing that they would not join a union?

A

Yellow-dog contracts

66
Q

Who wrote the late 18th century novel the Gilded Age?

A

Mark Twain

67
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What was an organized group that control the activities of a political party in the city?

A

Political machine

68
Q

Who was the boss in New York?

A

Roscoe Conkling

69
Q

Who was the Democratic city boss in Kansas City?

A

Pendergast

70
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What was the illegal use of political influence for personal gain?

A

Graft

71
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Who was head of Tammany Hall New York City’s powerful democratic political machine?

A

William Tweed

72
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What was William Tweed also known as?

A

Boss Tweed

73
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Who was a political cartoonist that helped arouse public outrage against Tammany Hall’s graft?

A

Thomas Nast

74
Q

What is the giving of government jobs to people who let help the candidate get elected?

A

Patronage

75
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What was the patronage policy known as and Andrew Jackson’s administration?

A

The spoils system

76
Q

What was jobs in government administration known as?

A

Civil service

77
Q

What president tried to reform civil service?

A

Rutherford B. Hayes

78
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What president seceded Rutherford B. Hayes?

A

James Garfield

79
Q

What made appointments to federal jobs do a merit system based on candidates performance on it examination?

A

Pendleton civil service act

80
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What president tried to lower tariff rates?

A

Grover Cleveland

81
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Whose campaign was financed by large contributions from companies that wanted tariffs even higher than they were?

A

Benjamin Harrison

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