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1st Nine Weeks CRT Flashcards

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What group of settlers was known as Exodusters?

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African Americans who moved to Kansas.

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What did the Plains Indians depend on for their food, shelter, and clothing?

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Buffalo

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Where did the first flight take place?

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Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

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The Bessemer Process revolutionized which industry?

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Steel Industry

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Railroads led to the adoption of what?

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Time Zones

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What was assimilation?

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Person or Groups language or culture resemble other groups

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Why was the transcontinental railroad important?

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Trade, commerce, and travel

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In capitalism, most industries are run by what?

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Private owners (not the state)

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What is vertical and horizontal integration?

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Vertical - supply is owned by that company.

Horizontal - company creates production units.

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What did the Sherman Anti-Trust act do?

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Prohibited trusts

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What two checks did immigrants have to pass at Ellis or Angel island?

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Health and if they were a criminal

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What is nativism?

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White people born in America were better than anybody

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What did Elisha Otis invent?

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Elevator

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What were Jim Crow laws?

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Laws that separated blacks from whites

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What were “New Immigrants”

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Immigrants that came for political, social, and economic reasons

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What was the Gentlemen’s agreement between the U.S and Japan?

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U.S wouldn’t allow Japanese immigrants

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What was the idea behind social gospel?

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Christians were mad about things like poverty

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What was the subject of Thomas Nast’s cartoons?

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Chinese Exclusion act

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What did the Populist party want to happen?

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End Jim Crow laws

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When it came to trusts what was Roosevelt known as?

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The Trust Buster

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What did 19th amendment do?

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Allow any sex to vote (women)

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What is a Muckraker?

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Writers that illustrated corruption and scandal in politics

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What is 17th amendment?

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Direct elections of senators by popular vote

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