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The Supreme Court case that confirmed the state could regulate INTERstate and INTRAstate railroads as long as it was in the best interests of its citizens was…

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Munn v. Illinois

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The Supreme Court case that spawned the Interstate Commerce Act by not allowing states to regulate railroads crossing state lines was…

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Wabash Railroad v. Illinois

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Competitive examinations were required for a certain percentage of all federal jobs by the…

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Pendleton Act

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The three major issues of the Gilded Age included all of the following except…

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The antitrust legislation

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The Federal Regulatory Board, established in 1887 by Congress to supervise the affairs of railroads, investigate complaints, and issue “cease and desist” orders against railroads acting illegally was the…

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Interstate Commerce Commission

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What organization in rural areas in the 1870s organized to politically to try and stop railroad practices such as rebating and get rail rates that farmers could afford?

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The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry

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Beginning in the 1880’s, the source of American immigration shifted new immigrants from…

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southern and eastern Europe. Before it was mostly northern and western Europe.

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Political campaigns during the late 19th century were characterized by…

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character assassination, bribery, and fraud

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The Pure Food and Drug Act accomplished all of the following except:
a. required industrial regulations for workers
b.regulated the content and inspection of food
c. prohibited the use of addictive drugs in nonprescription medicines
d. required accurate labels on food and drug products

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a. required industrial regulations for workers.
industrial regulations were not required or enforced

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Japan promised not to issue passports for laborers seeking work in America because of…

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According to the “Gentlemen’s Agreement” negotiated by President Roosevelt in 1907

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In 1912, the breakup of the Republican Party produced an independent third party (Bull Moose), the Progressives were led by…

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Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

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What act gave the country a central banking system for the first time since Andrew Jackson?

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The Federal Reserve Act when it was passed in 1913,

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Who created the term “The Gilded Age”?

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Mark Twain, made to describe the corruption and waste by government in the late 19th century

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What were the three main issues of the Gilded Age?

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The Tariff, Currency Reform, and the Civil Service Reform

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Party-linked political organization that maintained power in a city by controlling the poor, votes, and police/courts

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Political Machines

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Immigration
Between 1866 and 1915 over 25 million immigrants entered the US , mostly through Ellis Island with the US later restricting immigration in 1882. This led to the exclusion of which race?

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Chinese, with the Chinese Exclusion Act. 1 in 6 immigrants were forced to return to Europe and Chinese were much more likely to be detained.

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Bad at judging characters
Created Credit Mobilier to sell stock for Union Pacific and sold cheap to many congressmen

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Ended the worst of Patronage and Shaking down (giving out jobs to friends and family and paying to keep job)
However was part of the Stawlwarts (Repub. in favor of nepotism) and Halfbreeds (Repub. focused on Civil Service Reform)

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Assassinated by Charles Guiteau

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James Garfield

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Pendleton Act (10-14% of jobs would have competitive exams to be filled)

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Chester A. Arthur

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Mugwumps
Lowered the tariff
Interstate Commerce Commission

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Grover Cleveland

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Sherman Antitrust Act, meant to regulate monopolies and not eliminate them

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Benjamin Harrison

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The presidents during the Gilded Age were…

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weak leaders

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The black leader identified with the “Atlanta Compromise” was…

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Booker T. Washington

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Big-City political bosses and their machines emerged in the late 19th century because…

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Most immigrants knew little about democracy

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The election of 1892 set up a showdown in the election of 1896 over the issue of the…

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coinage of silver

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One of the roots of progressivism was the late 19th century…

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effort to regulate and control big business

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Legislation protecting workers against on-the-job accidents was inspired by the disastrous…

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Triangle shirtwaist factory fire

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On the national level, the Progressive Era saw the completion of the struggle for…

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women’s suffrage

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Theodore Roosevelt believed that the most effective means of dealing with big corporations was to…

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regulate rather than eliminate them

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Taft’s major liability as the president was his…

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lack of physical and mental stamina

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Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom included…

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restoration of competition

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When it came to non-whites, the progressives tended to be…

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strongly prejudiced against them

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What was the Progressives reaction to black militancy?

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Wilson was actively hostile to blacks

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Who formed The Grange?

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Oliver Kelley in 1867 called the organization of the Patrons of Husbandry

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The most prominent black militant, Co-founded Niagara movement with William Trotter, encouraged desegregation, and helped found the NAACP (an association of blacks and whites attempting to eradicate racial discrimination)

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WEB Du Bois

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Founded Universal Negro Improvement Association, slogan was “Back to Africa”, and promoted the idea of Liberia

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Marcus Garvey

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17th amendment

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Popular election of senators

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