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Us History 2: Chapter 22 Flashcards

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What was the leading industry in the mass production industry?

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Automobile Industry

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How did Henry Ford transform the auto industry?

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  1. Lowered the price of automobile to increase the sales of profit
  2. Lowered the cost production
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What were the primary principles approaches Henry Ford used to lower the cost of production?

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  1. Employed mass production to spread his fixed cost
  2. Employee for division of labor
  3. Interchangeable parts
  4. Focused heavily on wasted effort
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Name the industries dominated by trusts from 1898 - 1903

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Steal (trusts), oil (trusts), railroads (monopolies/ologopolies), utility electric companies (monopolies)

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Describe the important business develops from 1898 - 1909

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  1. Developing and continuing development in high businesses
  2. Finance capitalists (bankers) replaced industrial capitalist as operators of large businesses ex: JP Morgan replacing Carnegie
  3. Development of interlocking board of directors of control
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What were the principles of Frederick Taylor’s scientific management?

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  1. management must take control of job knowledge and set it into rules and formulas
  2. management must control the work place and enforce standardization of work methods
  3. enforcing cooperation
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Discuss the major changed in US farm life in the early 20th century

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  1. rural free delivery (RFD) delivery mail to farmers
  2. partial post- packages by mail with low cost
  3. better roads- more money spent on building them
  4. land prices rose and people couldn’t afford to buy a farm became tenants
  5. work and attention given to farm related diseases ex: hook worm, malaria
  6. huge irrigation product came to the west
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Explain the conditions faced by working women in the early 1900s

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  1. growing number of women in the work place
  2. heavy prejudice/ specially against married women because they belonged in the home
  3. very few professional jobs, few pay
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Who was Margaret Sanger

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An early feminist and women rights activists who coined the term “Birth Control” and worked towards its legalization

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Who was the sociologist leader of the Niagara Movement?

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WEB Dubois

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How was WEB Dubois approach to the Niagara Movement different that Booker T Washington?

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Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans should work towards success and WEB Dubois believed that equality was absolutely necessary for progress

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What was the NAACP? (1909)

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; serving as a source of info and pride to African Americans

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What magazine served as a voice for the NAACP?

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The Crisis

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Who was the editor of The Crisis?

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WEB Dubois

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Explain the main characteristics of immigration to the U.S 1901-1920

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  1. immigrants almost entirely were coming to work/economic motives and increase in labor movement
  2. source was Southern and Eastern Europe as well as from Mexico
  3. Immigrants often moved back and forth from their homeland to the US
  4. Mexican population in the southwest increased
  5. Chinese immigration dropped drastically (laws prohibited)
  6. Japanese immigration grew substantially
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What was the Bird of Passage?

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Person who passes through or visits without staying for long

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What interrupted temporary migration patterns from Europe?

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US enacted the Anarchist Exclusion Act

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Why did immigration increase from Mexico?

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The economy

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Angel Island

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An immigration station where immigrants entering the US were detained and interrogated

20
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Jose Marti

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Founding father of Cuba

21
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18th Amendment

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Allows prohibition

22
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Buck v. Bell

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Carrie Bell blamed for being raped and is sanitized

23
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GDP

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Gross Domestic Product

24
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What skilled labor union was the most mainstream?

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The AFL

25
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Who ran the AFL?

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Samuel Gompers

26
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Who introduced the 5 dollar day?

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Henry Ford

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Why did Henry Ford introduce the 5 dollar day?

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It was conceived as a profit-sharing plan which would motivate Ford employees to adopt efficient and productive habits at both the factory and at home

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Nativism

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When you favor a natives population

29
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Literacy Act

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If you immigrate you have to take a test

30
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Who did the Literacy Act target?

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Southern and Eastern Europeans

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Frederick Winslow Taylor

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He wanted to improve productivity in factories

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Who introduced Creative Destruction?

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Joseph Schumpter

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What was Creative Destruction?

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Capitalisms greatest strength and it will also destroy capitalism

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Why were women not allowed to work in the AFL?

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They were too emotional

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Anne Morgan

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She was a union activist

36
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What was the nickname of the Knights of Labor?

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The Feeble Wobbles

37
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

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Employees were locked in for their shifts and a fire broke out that killed a lot of people

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Leisure time

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Baseball, innovations in music, and cinema exploded across the US

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Muckrakers

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Writers who made a practice between 1903 and 1909 of exposing the wrongdoings of public figures and corporations and high lighting social and political problems

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Women Trade Union League

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The group worked to organize women into trade unions

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Industrial Workers of the World

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Also known as the wobblies, aimed to unite the American working class into one union

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Ashcan School

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Early 20th century realist painters who portrayed the slums and streets of the nation’s cities and the lives of the ordinary urban dwellers

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