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Unit #16-#20 Exam Flashcards

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What were the names given to the two wings of the Republican Party in 1880?

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Stalwarts and Half-breed

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How did President Hayes end Reconstruction?

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By removing Federal troops from the South

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Chester Arthur became President in 1881 upon the death of whom, a few weeks after he had been assassinated?

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James A. Garfield

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The assassination of President Garfield led to reform in what area with the passage of the Pendleton Act?

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Federal jobs

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Did President Cleveland generally support or oppose bills granting pensions for veterans?

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Opposed

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Which party gained a majority in the House in the 1890 med-term election

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The Democrats

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Who was the Republican presidential nominee in 1888?

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Benjamin Harrison

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What law was an attempt to regulate and control business combinations that were in restraint of trade?

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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What major change was taking place in the U.S. during this period?

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Changing to a industrious nation from an agriculture-based economy

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The main purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act was to regulate what industry?

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Railroad

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Bimetallism was the policy of using what two metals as the standard for money?

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Gold and silver

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What was the third party formed in the early 1890s primarily by farmers who felt that they were being overlooked by the Republicans and Democrats?

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Populist Party

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The business of managing investments in companies

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Finance capitalism

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Southern Democrats

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The Redeemers

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Agreement that brought many immigrants to the U.S.

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Contract labor

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The first big industry

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Railroads

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A chartered business that is a legal person

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Corporation

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18
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Immigrant processing center in New York Harbor

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Ellis Island

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Became wealthy in shipping and railroads

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Socialist leader of the American Railway Union

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Eugene V. Debs

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Became a wealthy leader in the oil industry

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John D Rockefeller

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Founded the American Tobacco Company

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James Buchanan Duke

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Involved in the coal mining industry

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Molly Maguires

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Leader of the Knights of Labor

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Terence Powderly

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Pioneered in catalog sales

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Aaron Montgomery Ward

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26
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Convicted after the Haymarket Riot

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Anarchists

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27
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Issues in the West in the late 1800s

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Water rights and fencing

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Industrial Workers of the World

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Wobblies

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Open to industry, less dependent on farming

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New South

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Major events that attracted millions

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World’s fairs or exposition

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Popular form of entertainment in the period

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Wild West shows

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32
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Contributed to the Second Industrial Revolution

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Electric power

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Black educator who accepted social segregation and discrimination

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Booker T. Washington

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Revenue law passed by Congress by declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

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Income tax

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Republican presidential nominee in 1896, gave the “Cross of Gold” speech

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William McKinley

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Term used for the execution by a mob of an African American

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Lynching

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Black activist who favored taking action to obtain civil rights for blacks

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W. E. B. Du Bois

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Wisconsin Senator who was a leading Progressive spokesman

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Robert M. (“Fighting Bob”) LaFollete

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What country in addition to Cuba did that U.S. invade during the Spanish-American War?

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Phillipines

40
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Elected President in 1896 and 1900

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William McKinley

41
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Maximum length of workday proposed by Progressives

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10 hours

42
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Tactic used to prevent blacks from voting, it based the ability to vote in 1898 on who could vote in 1867

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Grandfather Clause

43
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Practice that justified racial segregation, upheld by Plessy v. Ferguson decision

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Separate but equal

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Politician who furthered the Progressive cause most on the national level

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Theodore Roosvelt

45
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Journalist and authors who exposed the abuses and failing in American life

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Muckrakers

46
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Tax paid to be able to vote; was a tactic to prevent blacks from voting

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Poll tax

47
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Extreme Chinese nationalist who wanted to drive the “foreign devils’ out of China in 1900

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Boxers

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The 1900 U.S. population was about:

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76 million

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The percentage of the population that was considered rural in 1900 was:

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60%

50
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The average life expectancy in the U.S. in 1900 was about:

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47 years

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What was the U.S. rank among countries of the world for industrial output in 1900?

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First

52
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John Dewey was influential in what field?

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Education

53
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The Chautauqua Movement:

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Brought speakers and entertainment to many towns and cities

54
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Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Prize for helping to bring an end to the:

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Russo-Japanese War

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Roosevelt’s practice of filing suits to break up business trusts is called:

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Trust-busting

56
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The situation in what country was the first of the Roosevelt Corollary?

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Dominican Republic

57
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Who is credited with significant advances in mass production techniques?

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Henry Ford

58
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The first means to transit built across the isthmus of Panama was:

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A railroad

59
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Ferdinand de Lesseps:

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was involved in canal projects in both Suez and Panama

60
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The French effort to build a canal across Panama failed because:

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(1) the plan was not workable, (2) the technology and machinery needed did not exist, and (3) the workforce was decimated by disease and accidents

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The President most closely associated with the Panama Canal project was:

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Theodore Roosevelt

62
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For what invention is Guglielmo Marconi recognized?

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The radio

63
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Wilson’s plan for settling war issues

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Fourteen Points

64
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His assassination led to the Great War

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Archduke Francis Ferdinand

65
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Formed to oversee companies involved in interstate commerce

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Federal Trade Commission

66
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Rejected by the Senate

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Treaty of Versailles

67
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Republican nominee for President in 1916

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Charles Evans Hughes

68
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Governor of New Jersey before becoming President

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Woodrow Wilson

69
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Long-running military aspect of the Great War

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Trench warfare

70
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German practice that challenged U.S. neutrality

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Submarine warfare

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Secretary of State for most of Wilson’s first term

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William Jennings Bryan

72
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Enabled by the 16th Amendment, enacted by Congress

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Personal income tax

73
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British passenger liner sunk on May 7, 1915

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Lusitania

74
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Greatest individual hero of the Great War

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Alvin York

75
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American position when the Great War began

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Neutrality

76
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1912 Progressive Party presidential nominee

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Theodore Roosevelt

77
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Wilson’s main objective at Versailles

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League of Nations

78
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Leader of the first American forces in Europe

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John J. Pershing

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German overture to Mexico to fight against the U.S.

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Zimmerman Telegram

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What Germany had to pay to victorious nations

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Reparations

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Banking system begun in 1913

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Federal Reserve System

82
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Dominated foreign policy in Wilson’s first term

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Mexico

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