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Chapter 15 - Test Flashcards

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Chinese came to America primarily to work on what?

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Transcontinental Railroad

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Corrupt Party boss of a New York political machine

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William Tweed “Boss Tweed”

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European immigrants came to America through this island

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Ellis Island

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Chinese immigrants entered in the west through this island

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Angel island

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Statue of Liberty stands on this island

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Bedloes island

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She wrote the poem that is on the Statue of Liberty

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Emma Lazarus

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What was the name of Emma Lazarus’s poem

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The new colossus

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What is the real name of the Statue of Liberty

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Liberty Enlightening the World

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What was the name of the newspaper editor that raised the money to put the Statue of Liberty together

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Pulitzer

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What was the name of the New York political machine

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Tammany Hall

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Male workers gathered in these places which functioned as a community center

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Saloons

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12
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What was the first salary baseball team

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Cincinnati Red Stockings

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A person can rise as far in society as far as his talents will take him no matter how humble is origin

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Individualism

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These people distrusted foreigners and wanted to limit immigration

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Nativists

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People fail in life because of circumstances beyond their control

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Naturalism

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He designed most of the skyscrapers in New York and Chicago in the late 1800s

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Louis Sullivan

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These two organizations originated in England but came to America to help the poor

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YMCA and The Salvation Army

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18
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Who founded the Salvation Army

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William Booth

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The first American subway was in this city

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Boston

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The first elevated railway was where

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Chicago

21
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He was a landscape architect who designed Biltmore and Central Park

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Olmstead

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The Statue of Liberty was given to America by the

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France

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Wealthy should use their fortune for philanthropy

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Gospel of Wealth

24
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New popular kind of music in the 1800s

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Ragtime music

25
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The idea that government should not interfere with business

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Laissez faire

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He coined the term Guilded Age

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Mark Twain

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She started Hull House

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Jane Adams

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She ran the Henry street settlement house

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Lillian Wald

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He wrote how the other half lives

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Jacob Reece

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He founded Tuskgigee Institute

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Booker T. Washington

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He wrote rags to riches stories

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Horatio Alger

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He believed that those who profited from society should give back in return and he built many libraries

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Carnegie

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He was a realist painter of the 1800s

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Thomas Eakins

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A person who uncovers and exposes problems in society

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Muckrakers

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A new type of theater performed in the 1800s that included many acts

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Vaudeville

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This act provided money to build agricultural and mechanical colleges

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The Morril Land Grant Act

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What is one college that was built using the Morril Land Grant Act

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API (Auburn) or Texas A&M

38
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He brought the Bessemer process of making steel to America

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Andrew Carnegie

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Describe why the city dwellers liked ragtime music and vaudeville theater

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The vaudeville theater had fast-moving acts, like the tempo of big-city life, that went on all night. Some acts included the following: animal acts, acrobats, gymnasts, and dancers. Ragtime music also echoed the hectic pace of city life. It grew out of riverside honky-Toni, saloon pianists, and banjo players

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Explain how political machines, party bosses, and grafts work

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A political machine is an informal political group designed to gain and keep power. In exchange for votes, political machines and party bosses (who ran them) eagerly provided any necessity. Many political machines grew rich as a result or fraud or graft—getting money through dishonest or questionable means

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Things you can afford to eat, buy, drive, or own

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Standard of living

42
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The man who started taking pictures of criminals to keep up with them and he practiced the 3rd degree

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Burns

43
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Immigrants booked passage in the cheapest form of commodities

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Steerage

American History I (Betty) (15 decks)

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