Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920) Flashcards
One effect of industrialization in the United States in the late 1800s was the organization of labor unions as a way for workers to gain bargaining power in the workplace. Why did this development often lead to violence?
Business owners used force to protect their workplaces from unionization.
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Which factor led to the growth of labor unions in the United States during the early 1900s?
Unsafe working conditions in large factories
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One effect of industrialization in the United States in the late 1800s was the organization of labor unions as a way for workers to gain bargaining power in the workplace. Why did this development often lead to violence?
Business owners used force to protect their workplaces from unionization.
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How did rapid industrialization during the late 1800s affect the U.S. workforce?
Increased numbers of immigrants sought employment in urban areas.
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This question has two parts. First, answer part A. Then, answer part B.
Part A
What was the goal of the U.S. government’s policy toward American Indians in the late 1800s?
Part B
What are two ways that the government’s implementation of its policy affected American Indians.
Part A
to pressure American Indians to assimilate into European American cultuer.
Part B
Reservation land was broken up and granted to individuals instead of trabes as a whole.
Tribal governments were weakened or eliminated as tribes officially recognized state and federal laws.
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What impact did Jim Crow laws have on African Americans living in the South?
The laws made it legal to discriminate against African Americans.
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How did the westward expansion of white settlement affect American Indians?
White settlers wanted to own western land and its natural resources, and they drove American Indians off their lands.
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At the turn of the 20th century, large-scale urbanization transformed American life.
Give two results of urbanization.
- Urbanization led to increased crime in cities.
- Urbanization resulted inthe development of tenement housing.
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The following question has two parts. First, answer part A. Then, answer
Part A
Which major migration pattern occurred from the late 1870s through the early 1920s?
Part B
Select all of the effects the migration pattern you selected in part A had on American life during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Part A
African Amercians moved to northern cities in search of economic opportunities.
Part B
* Cities expanded outward as they aquired more land.
* Tenement buildings were constructed to house a growing industrial workforce.
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What was the outcome of the Dawes Act of 1887?
It reduced the size of reservations and divided tribal land among individuals.
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What was one effect of Jim Crow laws on marriage, prior to the 1960s?
to prohibit interracial marriage
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Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle uncovered the unhealthy conditions inside a meatpacking plant. The publication helped fuel demands for reforms in industrial America.
Select all of the legislative actions that occurred in response to the publication of UptonSinclair’s
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The Pure Food and Drug Act required improved food handling processes and procedures.
The Meat Inspection Act required the inspection of the meat processed and the sanitarypractices used.
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Which description characterizes Progressivism?
Progressivism was a reform movement that emerged in response to politicalcorruption, the practices of big business, and problems associated with poverty.
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How did the removal of federal troops after Reconstruction change the South?
It allowed racial discrimination to be institutionalized with the passage of Jim Crow Laws.
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Select all of the factors that enabled racism to become institutionalized in the United States following the end of the Reconstruction period.
- Federal troops were removed from southern states.
- The Republican Party regained control of state governments in the South.
- The federal government banned the application of grandfather clauses to newlaws.
- The Supreme Court affirmed the principle of “separate but equal” in Plessy v. Ferguson.
- Southern state governments repealed laws that limited African-Americans’ ability to vote.
Federal troops were removed from southern states.
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The Supreme Court affirmed the principle of “separate but equal” in Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Rapid industrialization in the United States in the late
1800s led to significant changes inbusiness organizations. Justice Barrett of the Supreme Court of New York described theimpact of one of these powerful new companies in the sugar industry:
It can close every refinery at will,… artifically limit the production of refined sugar, (and) enhance the price..at the public expense…
How did reformers propose that Congress respond to this type of powerful newbusiness?
by passing antitrust legislation
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In the early 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt fought for legislation to create more national parks, as well as to protect natural resources. How did public perception change in a way that supported the creation of national parks?
Conservation of wilderness became more important than developing resources.
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What was the effect of most treaties between the United States government andAmerican Indian tribes?
the removal or loss of American Indian lands
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