Articles to the Constitution
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1. Legislative 2. Executive 3. Judicial
What are the three branches of government created by the Constitution?
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This government act, passed in 1890, allowed government to regulate businesses that became too big by using illegal tactics and threatened to monopolize an industry:
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17th Amendment
What Amendment gave voters, rather than state legislatures, the power to directly elect their U.S. senators.
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Dollar Diplomacy
What term means to influence governments through economic, not military, intervention "substituting dollars for bullets"
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That they were superior to people in less-developed countries
What did Social Darwinism encourage people of industrial nations to believe?
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More power than the national government.
The Articles of Confederation gave the states.....
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1. Passing a literacy test 2. Forcing them to pay a poll tax
How did some white southerners prevent African Americans from using the right to vote?
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A tax taken out of your paycheck that varies on how much money you make.
What does it mean to have a graduated income tax?
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Sphere of Influence
What is an area where foreign countries control trade or natural resources of another nation or area.
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To be lightly coated in gold. Meaning that the economy looked good from the outside because big business was doing well but under the service most of the people did not benefit from the economy.
What does the term Gilded mean when referring to the Gilded Age?
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The states share power with the central government.
What do the states do in a federal system of government?
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Poesy v. Ferguson
What was the name of the 1896 Supreme Court Case were the court legalized segregation as the law of the land and allowed for separation of the races by claiming "equal but separate"?
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Initiative: Allows citizens to introduce new laws on ballots. Referendum: Allows citizens to vote on a proposed or existing law Recall: Allows voters to remove an elected official.
Describe each term when it comes to election reforms Initiative Referendum Recall
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A change to the Monroe Doctrine, saying that only the U.S could intervene in the internal affaires of Latin American nations. The point was to keep European countries out of North and South America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
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Yellow Journalism - is an exaggerated, exploitative, sensational style of newspaper reporting. Muckrakers- to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics. The Difference: Muckrakers exposed corruption whereas yellow journalism is part of corruption.
What is the difference between Yellow Journalism and Muckrakers?
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A plan to divide Congress into two parts.
What was the Great Compromise?
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Southern and Eastern Europe
Which regions did the majority of immigrants come from between 1880-1910? (NEW IMMIGRANTS)
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Square Deal He believed that everyone deserved no more or no less than his/her square deal. (Think a square has 4 EQUAL sides)
What was Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 campaign slogan? Why was it called that?
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1) For easier transporting of commercial goods and other cargo. 2) To allow military ships of the United States to have a shorter route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Why was the Panama Canal Built?
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The electoral college gives all states and smaller areas an equal say in voting. Each state's vote go towards the candidate they choose. The larger states will have more electoral votes due to population. That will give the larger states a larger role in the voting. If there were no electoral college presidential candidates will only campaign in the largest cities in the country to win the popular vote instead of reaching out to all of the states and different types of areas in the country. Total votes to win an election: 270 Electoral Votes
What is the reasoning behind the electoral college? Why do we as a country use that system over the popular vote? What is the minimum number of electoral votes you need to win a presidential election?
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Federalist- A supporter of federal government and a supporter of the U.S. Constitution. Anti-Federalists- refers to a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution until it contained a Bill of Rights.
What were the points of views of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
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Horizontal Integration - The process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain. Vertical Integration- Vertical integration is a strategy where a company expands its business operations into different steps on the same production path, such as when a manufacturer owns its supplier and/or distributor.
What is the difference between horizontal integration and vertical integration?
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They focused on 3 Types of Reforms: 1. Workplace Reforms 2. Society (Housing) Reforms 3. Government Reforms Why: To improve living conditions for the urban poor and called for government to be more honest and responsive to people's needs. Wanted to eliminate political corruption and make government more efficient.
What issues did Progressives focus on and why did they focus on those issues?
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1) Military 2) Economics 3) Ideological
What inspired the imperialist activity of the late 1800s?
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Mr. Moore will decide your fate
Why is Teddy Roosevelt Mr. Moore's favorite President? MUST LIST FACTS TO EXPLAIN WHY T.R. is so Great!
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