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1
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What are the two main processing centers for immigrants?

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Ellis island and Angel Island

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2
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Where was Angel island located?

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San Francisco bay, California

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3
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Angel island was mainly used for processing _______ immigrants during the __________

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Asian, 1910-1940

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4
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Ellis island was mainly used for processing ______ immigrants.

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European

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5
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Where was Ellis island located?

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Upper New York bay

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6
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What is urbanization?

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the population growth to urban areas (city areas)

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7
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As urbanization increased, _______ increased.

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Industrialization

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8
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how did urban life differed from rural life in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

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Urban areas where less sanitary but provided better cultural and economic oppurtunities

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9
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During the 1800s AA’s where most likely to move to _______.

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Northern cities, to escape jim crow laws

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10
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What caused the increase of urbanization ?

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Jobs in urban areas

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11
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what are the suburbs?

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A place where people could live outside of the city but close enough to there job.

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12
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Who would most likely live in the suburbs

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Wealthier people

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13
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Where would most immigrants live?

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Tenement houses

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14
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What are tenements?

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Small, unsanitary houses, where lots of people would live

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15
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What did transportation allow people to do?

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Transportation allowed people to live in suburbs father away from there jobs.

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16
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What was a main cause of the great depression?

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The banks giving loans that they could not afford

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17
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Banks encouraged citizens to buy goods on ______

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credit, this was bad because the people could not afford the cost of the goods

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18
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during the great depression the gov mad tax cuts (1920), why did these not help at all?

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The tax cuts helped reduce wealthy peoples taxs

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19
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What did high tarrifs do?

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High tarrifs prevented trade with europe

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20
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What did the high tarrifs effect do?

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It prevented Europe from getting the money they needed to repay there debts to the us

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21
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What is the Harlem Renaissance?

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The Harlem renaissance was an AA cultural and artistic movement that developed in the 1920s

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22
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Where was Harlem Renaissance mainly?

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Harlem, New York

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23
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What was the Great migration?

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The Great Migration was the widespread migration of AA from rural south to urban areas in the North and West

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24
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Who mainly moved during the Great migration?

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African Americans

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25
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During the great migration people moved from rural south to _________.

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Urban North and West

26
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Who is Louis Armstrong?

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Louis Armstrong is one of the most wezll known jaz artists

27
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Who is Billie Holiday?

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Billie Holiday is one of Americas greatest Jazz singers

28
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What is the Monroe Doctrine?

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The Monroe Doctrine was a policy in which it says the united states would not allow european countries to establish colonies or forces in North an south america

29
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Who came up with the Monroe doctrine?

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President James Monroe showed it to congress

30
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When was the Doctrine Monroe presented to congress?

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1823

31
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What was the Roosevelt Corollary?

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This explained Roosevelt’s approach to foreign policys in Latin American and the Caribbean

32
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What is prohibition?

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Prohibition is when alcohol was banned

33
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When was Prohibition a policy?

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1919

34
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What was the dust bowl?

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The dust bowl was when a drought hit the Western and Southern plains, and strong winds blew dust everywhere.

35
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When was the Dust bowl?

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1930s

36
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Where was the dust bowl?

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Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado

37
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Cause of Dust bowl?

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The cause of the dust bowl was a drought and over harvesting

38
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Explain remember the Maine?

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This is when the warship USS Maine exploded

39
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When did the Uss Maine explode and sink?

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February 15, 1898

40
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What did the Bessemer Process do?

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make steel

41
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The U.S. and its allies needed goods, weapons, and uniforms, what did this cause?

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It caused Roosevelt to turn ribbon factories into parachute factories

42
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The gov needed to keep up factories productions and ease the tax burden, this resulted in….

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The NWLB being created to address these problems

43
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What did the NDRC do?

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Improve technology in warfare

44
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What group gained power in the South following the Civil War?

A

carpetbaggers

45
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What best explains Southern whites’ reaction to the carpetbaggers?

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carpetbaggers benefited from the Souths troubled economy

46
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To many white Southerners, the Reconstruction efforts of Republicans represented…

A

unwanted intrusion into their cultrue

47
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Which group was most strongly dedicated to preventing African Americans from exercising their civil rights during Reconstruction?

A

ku klux klan

48
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What term best describes the attitude many Southern whites held about the North during the Reconstruction era?

A

Distrust

49
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The sharecropping system was supported by….

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laws that prevented AAs from owning land

50
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Reconstruction governments in the South were responsible for…

A

building a large number of schools

51
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What person would have best represented Booker T. Washington’s ideas about how African Americans could achieve racial equality?

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an African American who ignored racial taunts and became a successful farmer

52
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What situation resulted from the Jim Crow laws that were passed after Reconstruction?

A

Racial separation of African American and white societies was reinforced.

53
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After Reconstruction, many southern states…

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passed laws forbidding marriage between African Americans and whites

54
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What statement best describes the impact of poll taxes and literacy tests on residents of the South?

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the policies disenfranchised most African Americans but few white citizens.

55
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What accurately compares Garrett Morgan and Madame C. J. Walker?

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Though Morgan was primarily an inventor and Walker was an entrepreneur, they earned enough money through their work to support various civil rights causes.

56
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The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson allowed southern states to…

A

maintain separate facilities for African Americans and whites

57
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During the late 1800s, many African Americans moved from the South to the West or the North, where did they live?

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African Americans moving west mainly settled in rural communities, while those moving north mainly settled in large cities.

58
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What was the purposeof jim crow laws?

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to prevent African Americans from exercising basic rights

59
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Which African American leader worked as a journalist to investigate the practice of lynching

A

Ida B. Wells

60
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what did the U.S. do relating to immigration to the United States in the early 1900s?

A

The U.S. government placed barriers on immigration that made it difficult for some immigrant groups to enter.

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