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What act denied Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate, threatening American worker by job competition?
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What electronic device was used to communicate over long distances by sending coded messages over wire?
What was the telegraph?
What was the court case where the Supreme Court said that “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional?
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
What idea popularized by Andrew Carnegie argued that the wealthy have a moral obligation to use their surplus wealth for the benefit of society, rather than hoarding it or passing it on to heirs?
What was the Gospel of Wealth?
What was created in order for steel and other products to be delivered via train everywhere?
What were the railroads?
What Southern laws were designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves?
What were the Black Codes?
Who was an American industrialist and philanthropist as well as the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust?
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
What land did the US buy from Russia in 1867 that later became a major oil source?
What was Alaska?
(B) Free silver
What was it called when investigative journalists and writers exposed corruption and social ills during the Progressive Era?
What was muckraking?
What was an economic philosophy that advocates for minimal government intervention in the economy?
What was Laissez Faire economics?
What movement primarily focused on reforming government and society to address the negative consequences of industrialization?
What was the progressive movement?
What was the piece of legislation that aimed at preventing monopolistic power and fostering competition in the marketplace?
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
What was a term that describes a period in American history, roughly from the late 1860s to the early 1900s, characterized by rapid industrialization, technological advancements, and unprecedented wealth accumulation?
What was the gilded age?