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The System by which government jobs are given to those that had helped someone get elected is known as
The Spoils System
Name a tactic used by southern states to keep African Americans from voting after the Civil War ended
Poll tax, grandfather clause, literacy tests. etc.
The Oregon Trail
What made possible the American Industrial growth of the late 1800s
Technological advances
The Progressive movement focused mainly on the problems of which group of people?
Urban Residents
Harriet Beecher Stowe authored a best selling novel that greatly influenced Northern attitudes toward slavery. What was the title of the book?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Thanks to the 15th Amendment, southern black men did this for the FIRST time
Voted
How many years did homesteaders have to stay on their land to get it from the Federal Government under the Homestead Act?
5 years
Name John D. Rockefeller's business
Standard Oil
In 1906, Upton Sinclair's novel titled "The Jungle" exposed dangerous workplace condition in what?
The Meatpacking Industry
The "turning point" of the Civil War was the confederate loss at the Battle of
Gettysburg
The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to
Prevent African Americans from exercising their rights
Many agreements between Native Americans and the federal government fell apart because...
Native Americans and settlers had differing concepts of land ownership.
Children often worked in factories because...
families needed the income to survive
Most Progressives agreed that the government should
Use the government for reform (protecting workers and helping the poor for example)
Name the term that describes that division of power between state and national governments
Federalism
Radical Republicans opposed President Lincoln's plan, saying it was too...
Easy on the South
One way the government sought to change Native Americans through the Dawes Act was by
Requiring them to farm individual plots (their own land)
Why did many immigrants support political machines?
They were bribed with jobs and tenements
Critics of powerful industrialists (like Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, etc) saw them as ruthless referred to them as what?
Robber Barons
This allows the Supreme Court to make sure Congress and the President are following the rules of the Constitution
Judicial Review
What did the Radical Republicans do to the South through the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Broke up the south into military districts to ensure they followed the Federal Laws and punished them.
Name two pull factors for Westward Expansion
Free Land, Gold mining, Jobs on the Railroad, less discrimination
The idea that wealth and technological advances "covered up" some deeper issues and problems as seen in the term
The Gilded Age
Name the political party that Teddy Roosevelt helped to start
The Progressive Party / Bull Moose Party