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| What organization did Samuel Gompers found? |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| How was the AFL organized? |
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| it was organized into individual unions such as the mineworkers' union |
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| What kind of people were allowed in the AFL? |
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only skilled workers
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| What act was created to control monopolies? |
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| The Sherman Antitrust Act |
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| Why was the Sherman Antitrust Act hard to enforce? |
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| it didn't clearly define what a trust was in legal terms |
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| What commision was set up to control corruption in the government? |
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| The Civil Service Commission |
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| What did the Civil Service Commission do? |
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| made sure that government jobs were given to people that were right for the job, not people with political connections |
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| a powerful industrialist the bought up many railroad and steel companies in the late 1800s |
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What method did Andrew Carnegie use to make more money?
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| What did Andrew Carnegie do to expand his business? |
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| he bought out competitors when steel prices were low |
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| Why did cities build skyscrapers? |
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| there wasnt a lot of room in cities but they needed to house a lot of people and businesses |
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| What was the purpose of the recall? |
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| it let voters remove an elected official before the end of their term |
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| What was the purpose of the initiative. |
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| it let voters propose a new law |
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| What did President Theodore Roosevelt support the breakup of? |
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| What was the specific bad trust that Roosevelt wanted to break up? |
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| the Northern Securities Company, a big railroad trust in the northwest |
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| What institute of higher education did Booker T. Washington found? |
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| the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama |
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| What was the purpose of the Tuskegee Institute? |
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| for african americans to improve their education instead of fighting |
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| What progressives believe in? |
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| they believed that the government needed to step in and work together with the public to solve problems in society |
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| What were some problems that progressives wanted to solve? |
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1. working conditions
2. corruption in business and politics |
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| Why did newspaper circulation grow so much in the late 1880s? |
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| more people were reading the papers because muckrakers and journalists were bringing political scandals to light |
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| Who were 3 popular muckrakers? |
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| Licoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and Upton Sinclair |
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| What did Lincoln Steffens write about? |
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| corruption in city politics |
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| What did Ida Tarbell write about? |
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| John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company |
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| What did Uption Sinclair write about? |
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| the meat packing industry |
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| What did inventions help to promote? |
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| It helped people get more ideas, buy stuff, and make life easier. |
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| Who invented the telephone? |
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| Who invented the light bulb? |
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| Who invented the assembly line? |
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| Who invented the airplane? |
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| Orville and Wilbur Wright |
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| Who invented a faster way of producing steel? |
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| Why did some western states give women the right to vote? |
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| women greatly helped in the building of the west |
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| What states could women vote in? |
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| Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah |
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| What did the 16th amendment do? |
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| let the government tax people's incomes |
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| When was the 16th amendment passed? |
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| What did the 17th amendment do? |
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| let americans vote directly for U.S. senators |
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| When was the 17th amendment passed? |
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| Who chose senators before the 17th amendment? |
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| What did the 18th amendment do? |
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| outlawed the sale and production of alcholic beverages in the U.S. |
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| What did the 19th amendment do? |
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| it gave women the right to vote |
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| Which political party affected the outcome of the election of 1912? |
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| What was the biggest problem the U.S. faced during the building of the Panama Canal? |
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| the work was very dangerous |
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| What process did immigrants become a part of American culture through? |
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| acculturation or assimilation |
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| In the early 1900s, the U.S. had a policy of using troops when necessary to pursue its goals in what region? |
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| In which war did the U.S. accquire Puerto Rico? |
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| Where did most immigrants come from in the late 1800s? |
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| southern and eastern europe |
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| Why did millions of immigrants come to the U.S.? |
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| the jobs created by the 2nd industrial revolution attracted many people |
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| Why did the Central pacific hire Chinese workers? |
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| they worked hard for little pay |
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| What were americans determined to do when they passed the Chinese Exclusion act? |
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| they wanted to make immigration from china permantly illegal |
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| Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800s? |
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| the factories and companies where people worked were in the cities so people lived there to be close to work |
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| tall, dirty, crowded apartments |
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| Where were tenements located? |
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| in cities where the unskilled jobs were located |
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| Who were the founders of the Hull House? |
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| Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr |
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| What groups of people were rarely found in boomtowns? |
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| Where did the Homestead strike take place? |
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| at the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, PA |
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| What industry was the Homestead strike involved with? |
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| Where did the Haymarket Riot take place? |
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| Haymarket square in Chicago |
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| What was the result of the Haymarket riot? |
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| several people died and 100 were wounded |
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| What ideas did Native Americans have about land ownership? |
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| they didnt believe in private ownership |
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| How were the white settlers ideas about land ownership different from the native americans ideas? |
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| white settlers valued private property but native americans thought that no one owned the land |
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| What act did congress pass to encourage native americans to become farmers? |
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| Dawes General Allotment Act |
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| Why did war break out between settlers and Native Americans? |
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| settlers found gold on reservation land |
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| What was purpose of the Homestead Act? |
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| to encourage settlers to move onto the plains |
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| Which two companies were responsible for building the Transcontinental Railroad? |
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| Central Pacific and Union Pacific |
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| Why did plains families live in sod houses? |
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| there wasnt a lot of trees (wood) on the plains |
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| How were big businesses organized? |
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| Why did immigrants form benevolent societies? |
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| The government didn't provide help in cases of death, sickness, and unemployment |
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