Quater 2 test words

Question 1

plessy vs ferguson

Answer 1

facilities had to be separate but equal

Question 2

radical replubicans

Answer 2

wanted to make change fast

Question 3

muckrakers

Answer 3

helped by exposing corruption

Question 4

suffragist

Answer 4

a person who feels the extent a suffrage

Question 5

trustbuster

Answer 5

a person like teddy roosevelt who abolishes trusts

Question 6

spoils system

Answer 6

the act of a political party giving its office to political leaders

Question 7

civil service act

Answer 7

the idea you need to take a test to get a government job

Question 8

settlement house

Answer 8

in the inner city providing recreational, educational, and social activties to the community

Question 9

16th amendment

Answer 9

gives the government power to collect taxes

Question 10

17th amendment

Answer 10

Established direct election of United States senator through vote

Question 11

18th amendment

Answer 11

prohibited manufacture, import, export, and export in the United States

Question 12

manifest destiny

Answer 12

the word that said the United States destines to expand west

Question 13

Homestead Act

Answer 13

granted 180 acres of tax free land by the United States to give people a reason to move west

Question 14

reservations

Answer 14

places for the American and Plain Indians to go when people were moving west taking there land

Question 15

Dawes Act

Answer 15

When people in the West were trying to make the Native Americans “More American”

Question 16

Ellis Island

Answer 16

An Island where immigrants had to go through while coming into America for a physical and tags/ID

Question 17

Assimilation

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When someone is from one religion and fades into another

Question 18

Nativism

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Like patriotism but when you are very patriotic and think everyone should be your country`

Question 19

Chinese exclusion act

Answer 19

restricted chinese and didn’t let them do labor

because they were taking jobs from other people since they would work longer hours for less money

Question 20

urbanization

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when the population grows a lot like a city

Question 21

mass production

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making products in large quantities

Question 22

Laissez- faire

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to leave alone

Question 23

corporations

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a group of people authorized to act as a single enitity

Question 24

Sherman Anti trust act

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made it illegal for companies to seek a monopoly

Question 25

Panama Canal

Answer 25

a trade route through Panama and shortens a trip through the pacific to the atlantic

Question 26

open door policy

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country could trade with anyone if they had this

Question 27

boxer rebellion

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the uprising rebellion group

Question 28

monroe doctrine

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Foreign policy in 1823

Question 29

roosevelt corollary

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an addition the the monroe doctrine also known as the Big Stick Policy

Question 30

1st Wave of Immigration (OLD)

Answer 30

Came from european countries for social and economic reasons

Question 31

2nd wave (NEW)

Answer 31

Southern and Eastern European countries for gold rush and political reasons