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Chapter 19 (the greatest amendment by far) Flashcards

1
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The movement of people to cities?

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Urbanization

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2
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An exemption from a fee or exam to vote if a person, his father, or grandfather could vote before 1867?

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Grandfather clause

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3
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The separation of the races?

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Segregation

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4
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Laws that required the forced separation of the races in trains, schools, and other public accommodations?

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Jim Crow Laws

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5
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Those who believe humans cannot know whether there is a God?

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Agnostics

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6
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Groups dedicated to stopping the consumption of alcohol?

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Temperance Societies

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Court case which ruled that separate but equal facilities were constitutional?

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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The movement to bring about political and social reform through education and direct action by the government?

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Progressivism

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9
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A process for allowing voters to propose their own legislation?

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Initiative

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A process where the voters determine whether to accept or reject a proposed law?

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Referendum

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A vote to decide whether to remove an official from office before the end of his term?

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Recall

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Writers who exposed abuse and corruption in government, business, and society?

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Muckrakers

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13
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Gave women the right to vote?

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Nineteenth Amendment

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14
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Provided for the direct election of senators?

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Seventeenth Amendment

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15
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Created the federal income tax?

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Sixteenth Amendment

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16
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Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages?

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Eighteenth Amendment

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17
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Each of the following is true about the new immigrants who came to America in the late1800s except that…
A. they became the workforce for many of the nation’s industries
B. they brought their traditions and culture which made America’s culture more diverse
C. they typically moved to rural areas in the South
D. it often took more than one generation for an immigrant family to be “Americanized”

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C. they typically moved to rural areas in the South

18
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Each of the following was a challenge to Christianity in the late 1800s except that…
A. unorthodox groups such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses were formed
B. Christians stopped sending missionaries out into the world
C. agnostics questioned how anyone could know whether God exists
D. liberal Christians rejected the authority of the Bible, the supernatural, and the doctrine of salvation

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B. Christians stopped sending missionaries out into the world

19
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Each of the following was a response of Christians to the challenges facing society during the late 1800s except…
A. the establishment of Christian organizations such as the YMCA and the Salvation Army
B. an increase in the number of American missionaries sent around the world
C. a decline in the number of people who identified as agnostics
D. the defense of the fundamental teachings of Christianity against liberalism

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C. a decline in the number of people who identified as agnostics

20
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A popular preacher who attacked both liberalism and social problems while preaching the gospel of salvation was…

A

Billy Sunday

21
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A local New York politician who defrauded the city of millions of dollars before he was sent to prison was…

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William “Boss” Tweed

22
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Theodore Roosevelt’s progressive activities as president included each of the following except…
A. intervening on the side of labor in a dispute with coal mine owners
B. enacting laws to regulate the food and drug industries
C. conserving land in national parks and forest reserves
D. using legal action against trusts he considered to be bad
E. enacting laws to protect the civil rights of blacks

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E. enacting laws to protect the civil rights of blacks

23
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Woodrow Wilson practiced… ? …diplomacy, supporting those countries that provided the right to free elections and pressuring those that did not provide that freedom to begin doing so.

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Moral

24
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Each of the following is true about the presidential election of 1912 except that…
A. Teddy Roosevelt decided to run against Taft because he believed Taft had abandoned progressive principles
B. the Republican Party split between Taft’s supporters and Roosevelt’s supporters
C. the Bull Moose Party won the election
D. Woodrow Wilson won despite winning less than half the popular vote
E. Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism” platform called for more regulation of business and social reform

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C. the Bull Moose Party won the election

25
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The former slave who became leader of Tuskegee Institute was…

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Booker T. Washington

26
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…taught at Tuskegee Institute and found hundreds of uses for peanuts.

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George Washington Carver

27
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…tests were reading tests used to determine if a person could vote.

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Literacy

28
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A… ? …tax was a tax required for people to vote.

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Poll

29
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The founder of the NAACP, the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard, and an outspoken critic of discrimination was…

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W.E.B. DuBois

30
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…were established to reach people in troubled neighborhoods
by providing food, shelter, and spiritual guidance.

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Rescue missions

31
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Reformers founded… ? …houses to provide food, clothing, medical care, childcare, recreation, and classes to help those living in tenements.

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Settlement

32
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The person who founded the Hull House in Chicago to aid the poor residents was…

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Jane Addams

33
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The… ? …Act allowed federal inspectors to examine
slaughterhouses and meat companies and regulated companies that manufactured medications.

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Pure Food and Drug

34
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The author of The Jungle, which exposed the unsafe and unsanitary practices in the meatpacking industry, was…

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Upton Sinclair

35
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Theodore Roosevelt chose… ? …to be his successor as
the Republican candidate for president in 1908.

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William Howard Taft

36
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Taft’s policy of influencing foreign affairs through the investment of American money in foreign countries was called… ? …diplomacy.

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Dollar

37
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The party of progressives who followed Roosevelt in the split of the Republican Party was nicknamed the… ? …Party.

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Bull Moose

38
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The former president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey who won the election of 1912 as a Democrat was…

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Woodrow Wilson (a racist)

39
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Under Wilson, Congress created the… ? …System, which divided the nation into twelve banking districts and created a national bank to control the amount of money in circulation and exercise control over many banking operations throughout the country.

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Federal Reserve

40
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The Mexican bandit who murdered eighteen Americans in Mexico and seventeen more in New Mexico was…

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Poncho Villa

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