Vidtermes

Question 1

Highlighted the weaknesses of the articles ofconfederation

Answer 1

Shay’s rebellion

Question 2

Set up the process of turning land into states

Answer 2

Northwest ordinance

Question 3

Created proportional and equal representation

Answer 3

Great compromise

Question 4

Gave settlers free land after living on it for 5 years

Answer 4

Homestead act

Question 5

Gave natives free land if they agreed to assimilate

Answer 5

Dawes act

Question 6

Individual who investsin a business, benefitsfrom the freemarket systems

Answer 6

Entrepreneur

Question 7

Lange company owned by multiple sources,able to produce more goods for less

Answer 7

Corporation

Question 8

Nickname given to industrialists who engaged in corrupt activities

Answer 8

Robber baron

Question 9

Tax on imported goods, meant to protect businesses

Answer 9

Protective tariff

Question 10

What factors caused unions to form in the late 18th / early 19th centuries?

Answer 10

Badworking conditions, poor wages, long hours

Question 11

How were the knights of labor different from other unions, like the American federation of labor?

Answer 11

They allowed women and African Americans and unskilled workers to join.

Question 12

A philosophy based on Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection, assenting that humans have developed through competition and natural selection with only the strongest surviving

Answer 12

Social Darwinism

Question 13

A movement to aid and help the poor

Answer 13

Social gospel movement

Question 14

An organization linked to politicalparties that often controlled local government

Answer 14

Political machines

Question 15

Multi-family apartment buildings that are often dark and dirty

Answer 15

Tenements

Question 16

Causes someone towant to leave a country (war, famine,disease, religious persecution)

Answer 16

Push factor

Question 17

Causes someone to want to move to a country ( religious freedom, economic opportunities, political stability)

Answer 17

Pull factor

Question 18

Intended to help small farmers by placing limits on railroad companies, created reform at the federal level

Answer 18

Interstate commerce act

Question 19

Required government employees to pass an exam,createdreform at the federal level

Answer 19

Pendleton civil service act

Question 20

Allows voters to place an issue before the votersor legislative for approval

Answer 20

Initiative

Question 21

Allows voters to accept or reject B measures proposed by the legislature

Answer 21

Referendum

Question 22

Enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office

Answer 22

Recall

Question 23

This country was opened up to American trade with the open door policy

Answer 23

China

Question 24

This country was annexed by the United States after it was one in the Spanish American war. The US had to put down an insurrection to take control of it

Answer 24

-Philippines

Question 25

This country is blamed for the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor

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Spain

Question 26

A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs

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Isolationism

Question 27

Hostility towards immigrants

Answer 27

Nativism

Question 28

Medium of communication intended to reach a wide audience

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Mass media

Question 29

An economic theory that lower taxes will boost economy has businesses and individuals invest their money by creating higher tax revenue

Answer 29

Supply side economics

Question 30

Scopes trial

Answer 30

Fundamentalism versus modernism in teaching evolution