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Once the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, new methods were found to prevent African Americans from voting, like....
literacy tests
The Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans helped each other by forming...
mutualistas
__________ helped improve the safety of urban tenements by requiring fire escapes
Building codes
The assassination of ___________ was the spark the beginning of fighting in WWI
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
_________ exposed corrupt businesses and political practices
Muckrakers
Miners in the West created groups of ______ to enforce laws and punish crimes
vigilantes
The introduction of the ______ allowed businesses to speed up their operations in the late 1800s
telephone
Why did Alaska prove to be valuable to the United States?
It was rich in natural resources
Zoning laws helped to reduce the danger of pollution by....
keeping factories outside of residential neighborhoods
Airplanes first proved to be of practical value in what operations?
Military operations
Support for temperance (or prohibition) grew during WWI because people believed that grain should be used for what?
To feed soldiers rather than make alcohol
The United States convinced Japan to sign the Treaty of Kanagawa by using...
scare tactics by bringing steam-powered ships
Thomas Edison had the greatest effect on the nation by his invention of...
electrical devices that light up homes and businesses
A major result of the Homestead Act of 1862 was...
increased development of western lands
An example of a _______ that influenced European immigration in the United States was industrial jobs
pull factor
Why did President Roosevelt want to build a canal in Panama?
To reduce the time and cost of shipping goods
_______ is the economic practice that helps motivate companies to keep prices low and improve product quality
competition
The __________ resulted in German payment of reparations, reduced size of the German army, and reduced the size of Germany
Treaty of Versailles
A person described as a nativist would most likely support the passage of which immigration act?
Chinese Exclusion Act
________ and _______ were accused of taking advantage of the southerners after the Civil War
carpetbaggers, scalawags
Why did the term “Gilded Age” accurately describe the period of the late 1800s?
A thin layer of wealth seemed to cover up a great deal of corruption
The area between the trenches during WWI was called...
No Man’s Land
_________ was a group of Progressive Republicans who supported Theodore Roosevelt during the 1912 election
The Bull Moose Party
The _________ Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves
Fourteenth
The Zimmerman telegram turned Americans against _______
Germany