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Who coined the term “Gilded Age”?

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Mark Twain

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What were the 6 characteristics of the Gilded Age?

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  • Greed, scandal, and corruption
  • Moved from Agrarian society to Industrial society
  • Unprecedented economic growth
  • USA became an emerging world power
  • Mass immigration
  • Unequal distribution of wealth - “Haves” and “Have-nots”
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How much of the people owned how much of the wealth?

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Less than 1% of the people (4,000 families) owned 50% of the wealth

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How many immigrants came to America at this time?

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25 million

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Why did immigrants come to America at this time? (3)

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  • Escape religious persecution
  • Escape poverty
  • Start a new life
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How did most immigrants make the journey to America?

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Steamboats

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What class did almost all immigrants travel in on their journey to America?

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3rd class (steerage)

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Who wrote the poem that introduced the nickname “The Golden Door” for the Statue of Liberty?

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Emma Lazarus

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What were the 2 major immigration centers?

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Ellis Island (NYC) and Angel Island (San Francisco)

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How many steps were there in the Immigrant processing process and what were they?

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  • 2
  • Medical inspection
  • Legal inspection
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Why did most immigrants settle in cities?

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Jobs

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What were communities that shared the same language and culture called?

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“Ethnic Islands”

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What were dark, crowded, and unsafe clothing factories known as?

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Sweatshops

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What were the 2 Multicultural assimilation theories?

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Melting Pot theory
Mixed salad theory

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Melting Pot Theory

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immigrant groups will tend to “melt together,” abandoning their individual cultures and eventually become fully assimilated in American Society.

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Mixed Salad Theory

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metaphor for the way a multicultural society can integrate different cultures while maintaining their separate identities.

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Why did children assimilate faster?

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Forced to go to public school

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Who were the “Old Immigrants”

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Most from Northern/Western Europe (Mostly British and German
WASPS- White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

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Who were the “new immigrants”

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Southern/Eastern Europe/ Italian/Slavic/Asian/Irish/Jewish

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Why were new immigrants not welcome at first? (3)

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  • Job competition - lower wages
  • Religious differences - Catholic/Jewish/Orthodox
  • Cultural differences - They didn’t “fit in” (look, dress, or speak the same language”
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What was the goal of the Immigration Restriction League?

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To restrict immigration

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What anti-immigration sentiment came about as a result of the Anti-Immigration backlash?

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Nativism

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What political party was established to restrict and stop immigration?

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The American Party (Know-Nothings)

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What did NINA signs stand for?

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No Irish need apply

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Which act stopped Chinese Immigration for 30 years?

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The Chinese Exclusion Act

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Which act Limited the number of Japanese immigrants to America?

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Gentlemen’s Agreement

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Immigration Act of 1917

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Required them to be able to read and write before they could enter the country

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Which groups did Immigration Act of 1917 target?

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Asians and other non-whites

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Immigrant Contributions to USA: (3)

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  • Provided workers for the Industrialization of America
  • Enriched America with unique customs, culture, language and literature
  • Creative entrepreneurial talents (business)
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Why did 2/3s of the population move to cities?

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JOBS

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What is meant by Urbanization of America?

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Movement of people from the rural/country to the urban/city.

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What were the 7 major Urban Problems?

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  • Housing
  • Transportation
  • Water
  • Sanitation
  • Crime
  • Factory Working Conditions
  • Fire
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Where did the “Working Class” or “Have nots” live in the cities?

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Dumbbell Tenements (multi-family dwellings) - Overcrowded and unsanitary

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Where did the “Middle Class” live in the cities?

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Row Houses

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What methods of transportation were used during this period? (3)

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  • Mass Transit (designed to move large groups of people)
  • Streetcars (horse drawn, cable, electric)
  • Subways - 1st in Boston
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What diseases were extremely common at this time? (3)

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Tuberculosis, Cholera, Typhoid

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Where was the 1st police force established?

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NYC

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What type of crime was extremely common at this time? (2)

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Pickpockets and thieves

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Why was fire such a major issue at this time (3)

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  • Wooden building stacked on top of each other
  • Limited water
  • Candles and kerosene lanterns = fire!
40
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Where was the first fire dept established?

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Cincinnati, OH

41
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How long did factory workers work?

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12 hr days

42
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How much were factory workers paid?

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$1 per day

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an organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in the city by providing services to people and businesses in exchange for votes *Goal was to stay in Power

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Political Machines

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illegal use of political influence for personal gain - money

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Graft

45
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How did political machines work?

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immigrants stepped off the boat and the machine would get them a job and a place to stay in exchange for votes/political support

46
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What was the most infamous political machine?

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Tammany Hall in NYC

47
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Who ran the most infamous political machine?

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Run by William Tweed (Boss Tweed)

48
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What happened to William Tweed? (2)

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  • made millions of dollars illegally
  • eventually went to jail
49
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Who controlled the US Congress and the White House?

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Big Business

50
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Who were the 6 presidents during this period? Which one of them was not corrupt?

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Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison - All but Grant were corrupt

51
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Journalist - drew cartoons to expose corruption of the Bosses and Robber Barons

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Thomas Nast

52
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Economic growth was fueled by what 3 things

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  • Wealth from the war
  • Modern Machinery
  • Unlimited Workforce (immigrants)
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“linchpin” - connected America/made America go

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Railroads

54
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invented the first incandescent light bulb

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Thomas Edison

55
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What replaced Kerosene lamps?

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the first incandescent light bulb

56
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a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices

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“Robber Barons”

57
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Who controlled “Big Business”

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“Robber Barons”

58
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Who created industrial “monopolies” (single seller controls all)

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“Robber Barons”

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5 Major Robber Barons:

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  • Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • JP Morgan
  • Henry Ford
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • John D. Rockefeller
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What industry was run by Cornelius Vanderbilt and how much was he worth?

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Railroads - worth $2.6 Billion in today’s money

61
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What industry was run by JP Morgan and how much was he worth?

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Banking/Finance - Worth $40 billion in today’s money

62
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What industry was run by Henry Ford and how much was he worth?

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Automobile - $200 billion in today’s money

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What industry was run by Andrew Carnegie and how much was he worth?

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Steel - worth $350 billion in today’s money

64
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What industry was run by John D. Rockefeller and how much was he worth?

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Oil - worth over $400 billion in today’s money

65
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What was the average salary of the working class and how much would it be in today’s money?

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$365 per year = $5,000 per year in today’s money

66
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Did the Robber Barons care about their workers?

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Not at all except for Rockefeller

67
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a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States.

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Progressive Era

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Goal of the Progressive Era

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to improve the conditions of the “working class” (poor)

69
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exposed the “evils” of society

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Muckrakers

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3 major Muckrakers

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Jacob Riis
Lewis Hine
Upton Sinclair

71
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a social reformer journalist/photographer showed “How the other half lived”

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Jacob Riis

72
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photographer who exposed the evils of child labor

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Lewis Hine

73
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exposed the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry

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Upton Sinclair

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What were the 8 major reforms during the Progressive Era

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  • helping the poor
  • improving working conditions
  • woman’s suffrage
  • Alcohol Reform/Prohibition
  • Education Reform
  • Child labor
  • Government corruption reform
  • Ended business “monopolies”
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founder of the Social Gospel movement - Preached salvation through service to the poor

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Washington Gladden

76
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community centers that provided services to the poor

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Settlement houses:

77
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Examples of Settlement Houses (3)

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  • YMCA
  • Salvation Army
  • Hull House
78
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organized to protect workers’ rights (better wages, hours, safer working conditions, child labor laws)

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1st labor unions

79
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stoppage of work to combat “Robber Barons”

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Strike

80
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Right to vote

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Suffrage

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women who fought for the right to vote

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“Suffragettes”

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4 major “Suffragettes”

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  • Susan B Anthony,
  • Lucrecia Mott,
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
  • Alice Paul
83
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When did women get the right to vote?

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1920

84
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Who led the prohibition?

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women

85
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Forbade the sale and consumption of alcohol in US

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Prohibition

86
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Father of modern public education

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Horace Mann

87
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Enforced kids to attend public schools

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Education reform

88
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What happened during the Child Labor reform?

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Child labor was outlawed

89
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What happened during the Government Corruption reform?

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political machines were done away with

90
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Who started the YMCA?

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George Williams

91
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Who started the Salvation Army?

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William Booth

Second Semester College History (6 decks)

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