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| What was central to the life of the Plains Indians in the 1800s? |
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| Bind, spirits, families, buffalo, and horses. |
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| What was the Homestead Act? |
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| Plan to settle the West by providing 160 acres in return for farming the land for 5 years at a profit. |
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| What lead the end of the Western Frontier? |
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| A plan to "Americanize" Native Americans. |
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| Why was Pullman, Illinois an unusual town? |
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| The town was ran by a company. |
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| What was Social Darwinism? |
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| Charles Darwin's economic theory of biological evolution. |
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| What followed the Triangle Shirtwaise fire? |
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| The Sherman Anti-Trust Act turned against labor. |
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| What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act? |
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| What was the purpose of standardized time and time zones? |
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Keep reseting their watches.
Opened a way for abuses to lead to social and economic unrest. |
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| What was the main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act? |
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| 1882, limited the immigration of laborers from China. |
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| What was the main goal of the Americanization movement? |
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| To assissinate people of wide ranging cultures. |
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| Settlement houses were founded in the late 1800s by who? |
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| An example of patronage would be what? |
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| Elected government, him or her getting a new job. |
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| The Pendleton Civil Service Act required what? |
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| Southern states sometimes used a grandfather clause to allow them to do what? |
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| If a man failed the literacy test or could not pay the poll tax, he still has the right to vote. |
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| Jim Crow laws were laws that did what? |
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| Separated whites and blacks in public and private facilities. |
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| In the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson, what did the Supreme Court rule? |
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| The separation of races in public was legal and did not violate the 14th amendment. |
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| What were trends in education in the late 1800s? |
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| The number of kindergardeners went from 200 to 3,000. |
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| What were the popular forms of education? |
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| Reading, writing, and arithmetic. |
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| The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed what industry? |
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| What was the primary goal of the NAACP? |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; race equality. (1909). |
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| Who ran in the 1912 Presidential election? |
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| What was included in the de Lome letter? |
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| Written by Spanish; calling Winslow weak minister. |
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| The policy which stronger nations extended their economic, political, and military control over weaker territories. |
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| What were the causes of World War I? |
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| Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. |
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| Submarines ready to attack. (Germany). |
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| What was the Zimmerman note? |
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| A telegram from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British agents. |
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| What was the Teapot Dome Scandal? |
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| Leasing oil-rich public land to private companies for money and land. |
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| What was the quota system of the 1920s? |
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| To control and restrict immigration. |
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| Free thinking young women who embraced the new fashion and urban attitudes. |
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| What was the "Great Migration"? |
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| A large-scale movement of African Americans from the south to northern cities in the early 20s. |
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| What was the significance of the Scopes Trial? |
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| A fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society. |
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| Who were Sacco and Vanzetti? |
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| Shoe maker and fish peddler. Both Italian, both immigrants, and both archists. Both envaded the draft during the war. |
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| What led to the Great Depression? |
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| Tarrifs, war depts, farm problems, easy credit, and uneven distribution of wealth. |
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| What name was given to the men and boys who rode the rails as they searched for work? |
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| What caused the Dust Bowl? |
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| Droughts and wind storms. |
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| What caused the Great Depression? |
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| What was the goal of the New Deal? |
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| To provide the unemployed with a job. (Economic recovery). |
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| What was the Good Neighbor Policy? |
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| A foreign policy in Latin America that said we would not use military force. |
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