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Test 2-The gilded age Flashcards

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3 factors that have national politics during the gilded age its distinctive texture

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  • national political parties were “dominant forces”
  • the close division between republicans and democrats in congress
  • very high voter turnout
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3 types of differences between the parties

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  • religious
  • ethnic
  • geographic differences
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Republicans

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Prohibiting alcohol

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Democrats

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Irish immigrants

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3 factions within the Republican Party

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  • the stalwarts
  • the half breeds
  • the mugwumps
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Interstate commerce commission was created to

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Regulate the railroad

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The problem with the tariff was

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It fostered big business at the expense of small producers

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Who didn’t support for coins of silver to be made available?

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Big business

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9
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What was hard on farmers?

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Property taxes

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The farmers alliance

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Helped form the populist party

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The populist party:

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  • small farmers and wage labored

- more government intervention

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Jim Crow laws were

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Laws passed in the south that mandated the seperation of races in public places

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Separate by equal facilities

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Booker T Washington: true or false?

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False

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WEB Dubois: true or false?

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False

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4 reasons the US expanded its military presence: name the 1 false reason

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Communist trying to take over the pacific

17
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Alfred Thayer Mahan

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Powerful navy

18
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Queen Liliuokalani:

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The sister of the Hawaiian king

She intended to stop the political power that American planters had in the gov

19
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Who was elected president when Hawaii was annexed to the US and it was in 1898?

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William McKinley

20
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Yellow Journalism: true or false?

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False

21
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The Maine: true or false?

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False

22
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Teller amendment

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Statement declaring that the US has no intention of annexing Cuba

23
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Battle of Manila Bay: true or false?

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True

24
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Rough riders were made up of:

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Former Ivy League athletes, ex convicts, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Pawnee,Creek Indians, southwestern sharpshooters, Theodore Roosevelt

25
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US inspires a revolution: true or false?

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True

26
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Greater Democracy:

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  • direct primary
  • initiative and referendum
  • recall
27
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Commission system

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Galveston Tx

28
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Social justice focused on these causes:

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  • closing saloons
  • improvising prisons
  • shelters for women & children
  • 8 hr workday
  • better nutrition
  • public playgrounds
  • federal inspection of food
  • free kindergartens
  • uniform marriage & divorce laws
  • child labor
  • manufacturers
29
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Triangle shirtwaist factory fire

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Workers died in fire

30
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Teddy Roosevelt: true or false?

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False

31
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Low crop prices: true or false?

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True

32
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Book: true or false?

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False

33
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What was the novel The Gilded Age about?

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Widespread political corruption and corporate greed

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