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| Why did immigrants trave when coming to America? |
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| Steerage, because most of them didn't have much money. |
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| Why did immigrants take low-paying industrial jobs? |
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| They lacked lacked the skills needed for higher skilled jobs. |
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| Why did many immigrants families settle in neighborhoods with people from the same country? |
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| Transition into American culture was difficult. |
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| Why did employers like immigrants to be their workers? |
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| They were willing to work for lower pay. |
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| Why did labor unions oppose immigrants? |
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| They feared all immigrants would take all jobs away from Americans. |
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| Why did African Americans move from the south to northeren cities in the 1890's? |
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| They tried to escape descrimintaion and to find better economic opprotuniteis. |
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| System of public transportation |
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| stuffy workshops in which workers work & repair for low wages. |
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| What change did the steel industry bring to architecture of the late 1800's? |
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| Steel used to build skyscrapers that could use less space. |
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| overly crowded apartment building |
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| good government gathering spaces for recreation |
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| neighborhoods outside of a downtown area |
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| what were politics like during the guilded age? |
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| influence of political machines |
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| often influenced city & country politics. |
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| allowed personal income to be taxed |
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| allowed americans to vote directly for U.S sentaors |
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| banned production, sale, transportation of alcholic berverages |
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| procedure that allowed voters to propse a new law by collecting a petition |
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| allows voters to approve or reject a law already been past |
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| Why did employers hire children? why did child labor continue even after reforms? |
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| cheap labor & because the family needed the money |
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| run by private industries |
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| government owns and opperates |
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| African American educator who encouraged African Americans to improve economic and educational opprotunites. |
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| Theodore Roosevelt's idea for balancing the interest of consumers. |
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| guarenteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job. |
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| workers' compensation laws |
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| practice of giving jobs to the winning candidate's supporters. |
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| powerful orginizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elecetd to public office |
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| vote to remove an official from office |
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| building an empire by founding colonies of conquering other nations. |
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| avoiding involvement of affairs of other countries. |
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| kind of journalism using exaggeration |
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| why did imperialism gorw? |
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| it was sparked by desire of other nations to find sources or raw materials to help industrial growth |
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| how did Japan handlethe foreign policy up the mid 1800s? |
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| Secretary of State, William H. Seward, many Americans thought Alaska was a frozen wasteland. |
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| What islands did the U.S gain control over? |
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| Guam, Phillipenes, Cuba & Puerto Rico. |
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| What was the result of the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine? |
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| RalliedAmericans against Spain. |
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| What was the extension of the Monroe Doctrine? |
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| What contributed to tensions in Europe at the beggining of the 20th century? |
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| aggressive strenthing of armed forces |
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Name the battles-
1. French stop german & trench warfare begins.
2. German army retreats from the city |
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