APUSH - RG 10 quizz

Question 1

GA - theme Native Americans + westward expansion

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Devastating impact on native americans, forced removal tribes, from ansesteral lands, Natives lost life culture and signifigant ways of life

Question 2

GA - theme Industry: Captains of industry vs Robber Barons

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Buissness leaders whose means of amassing personal fortune contributed positvaly to country, vs ethically questionable methods to eliminate compettion for manopolies

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GA theme - Polotics: Corruption - credit mobiller scandal

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exposed fraud finacial scheme with U.S. polititions + railroad (allowed money in certain peolpes pokets instead of helping railroad)

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GA theme - Protests for labor

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Wanting to end child labor, better pay, just hours, strikes

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GA - theme Protests - homestead strike

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Bloody confrontation between workers and security gaurds , happened becusse wages were cut (protests)

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GA - theme Protests - The populists (omaha) platform

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focused on helping rural and working class Americans

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PE - Muckrakers

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Jacob Riis, Ida B. Wells, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle The Ashcan School

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PE - Muckraker

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Tries to expose real or alleged corruption, scandal or other wrong doing

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PE- Jacob Riis

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Journalist writing about quality of life in slums

Question 10

PE - Ida B. Wells

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Led anti linching crusade for African Americans

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PE - Upton Sinclair , The Jungle

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expose industrial labor, ended up moving congress first time to relagate food production

Question 12

PE - Ashcan School

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First American modern art movement, captured daily city life

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PE - Social Reform

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wanted more accountable government working to improve U.S. society

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PE - Jane Addams

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social reformer and peace activest (desired edjucated women share knowledge)

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PE - Settlement Houses

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Provided support to poor urban immigrants

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PE - Booker T Washington

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PE - Race

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white superiority was clear in american society

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PE - Booker T. Washington

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Formed national negro buissness leauge encourged ejucated/blacks in buissness

Question 19

PE - W.E.B. DuBois

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Blacks should fight for equal rights + oppertunities (He had a more aggresive approach than washington)

Question 20

PE - Labor

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Progressives brought minimum wage laws for women, restricted child labor, better but not perfect yet

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PE - New Immigrants

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unskilled workers in textile mills + slaughter houses, construction crew (not treated equal + rough conditions)

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PE - Triangle Shirtwaist fire

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horrid fire trapping feamle workers inside killing many

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PE - Industrial Workers of the World

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high standards of democracy, (active felling of the right to strike)

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PE - Eugene V. Debs

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Social and political activest, looked out for the rights of common peolpe, ran for president, labor laws, led ARU

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Local Politics

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Focused on reducing corruption, improving public services and increased government efficiency

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Direct Decmocracy

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Citizens vote directly on laws + policies rather than electing representatives

Question 27

Tom Johnson

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Progressive era mayor of Cleveland, goals were to fight against manapolies, help urban infistructure direct democracy reforms

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“Wisconsin idea”

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policy which aimed to make government more efficient, led to reforms

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17th Amendment

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Ratified 1913 - established direct election of senetors (by people) as oppossed to state legislatures

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National Progressivism (Def)

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political movement aimed to reform government, economy + society as a whole (adress industiralizations challenges)

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Alice Paul

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Womens right activist, Cofounded National womens party, huge in getting 19th ammendment

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19th amendment

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ratified in 1920, granted women right to vote

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Theodore Rosevelt
+ Square Deal

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HE championed sqaure deal - regulating big buissnesses + consumer protection (breaking up manopolies)

Rosavelt also well known for trustbusting effrorts

Question 34

Trustbusting

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Efforts to break up manopolies on large coorperate trusts which limited compettition and exploited workers + consumers

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U.S. Forest Service

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created in 1905, manage public lands and protect wild-life

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William H. Taft

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27th US president continued trusbusting efforts, somewhat conservative to reform,

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Woodrow Wilson

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28th US president focused on domestic (family) reforms

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New Freedom

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set of policies from Woodrow wilson in 1912, promote competitive economy

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16th amendment

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Ratified 1913 granted federal government power to collect income tax directly from individuals

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Federal Reserve Act 1913

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Aimed to limit finacial panics, regulate intrest rates and a more flexible/secure banking system

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Clayton Antitrust Act 1914

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Antitrust laws, targeted price discrimination, legalized labor unions

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Gilded Age

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Rapid industrialization, economic growth, extreme wealth inequlity, political corruption, rise of monopolies, need for social reform

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Progressive Era

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Response to Gilded age, focused on social, political and economic reforms, adressing inequlity + government corruption, and cooperate power, used trust busting, workers rights, womens sufferage

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Note for theses flash cards

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(Anything without GA or has PE is progressive era, GA indicate gilded age)