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Question 1

13th amendment

Answer 1

1865 - abolished slavery in USA

Question 2

Reconstruction ended

Answer 2

1877

Question 3

E.g. Of corruption during gilded age

Answer 3

Whisky ring

Star routes ring

Question 4

Platt Amendment ?

Answer 4

1901 - authorised US intervention in Cuba

Question 5

Roosevelt Corrollary?

Answer 5

1904 - stated that US had a right to ‘excercise international police power’ in Latin America

Question 6

Open door policy ? Dates

Answer 6

1899 , and re-stated in 1922 at the Washington Naval Conference

Question 7

How much spent on McKinley’s 1896 election ?

Answer 7

$7m

Question 8

Dingley Tariff Act ?

Answer 8

McKinley passed in 1897 - pushed tariff rates to a higher level

Question 9

What did 1900 currency act do

Answer 9

Committed US to the Gold Standard

Question 10

What happened during 1902 coal strike ?

Answer 10

Roosevelt did something which was unlike any other action taken by previous presidents - he mediated during the GReat Coal Strike and challenged mine owners in the press - he was ready to send in federal troops to support workers

Question 11

1906 Hepburn Act?

Answer 11

Enabled closer regulation of railroads

Question 12

Reconstruction - Republixans

Answer 12

Dominant in North
Anti-slavery
Pro-business

Question 13

Reconstruction - Democrats

Answer 13

Dominant in South
Pro -slavery
Pro farmers

Question 14

Reconstruction ?

Answer 14

Process of reintegrating the Southern states into USA, and building new social structures in South to replace the old slavery-based ones
During the civil war-1877