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Reconstruction
The West
Big Business
Immigration
Progressives
100
Laws that legalized segregation; "separate but equal"
What are Jim Crow Laws?
100
What was one reason people were drawn out west?
Any of these would be correct: a) gold b) new land
100
A large business that eliminated all competition
What is a monopoly or trust?
100
Places where most immigrants settled upon coming to the United States
What are cities?
100
A progressive who uncovered the corruption of Standard Oil Co.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
200
Poor farmers who gave up a portion of what they produced to land owners; made little money and were caught in a cycle of debt
What are tenant farmers or sharecroppers?
200
Various differing beliefs like the use of the buffalo caused these with the Native Americans
What is conflict?
200
What were the goals of labor unions like The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor?
Better pay, safer and nicer working conditions, shorter hours
200
Lack of freedom, poverty, and war are all examples of
What are push factors?
200
The laboratory for progressive ideas; this governor was the "scientist"
What is Wisconsin; who is Robert LaFollette
300
White southerners who supported radical reconstruction (the granting of more civil rights to blacks)
Who are scalawags?
300
What did the government provide to railroad companies as incentives to build the Transcontinental Railroad? (Bonus points if you can name the companies. But the points will only exist in your head because I don't know how to add more points)
Land and money
300
An economic system in which consumers and producers make economic decisions
What is capitalism?
300
Major immigration sites in New York and California
What are Ellis Island and Angel Island?
300
Two trust-busting presidents of the Progressive era
Who are Teddy Roosevelt and William Taft? (aka one of my three possible fathers ;) (Bridget)
400
The amendment that stated states could not deprive citizens the right to vote based on color or race
What is the 15th amendment?
400
Define the Dawes Act.
A plan to put Native Americans on reservations and assimilate them to fit in with American society.
400
A system of rewarding followers with government jobs
What is the spoils (patronage) system?
400
These immigrants were easily assimilated into American culture
Who are the old immigrants?
400
One of the leaders of the N.A.A.C.P
Who is WEB Dubois?
500
Examples of tactics states used to get around the new amendments that allowed blacks to vote; these practices made it very hard for blacks to vote
a) Poll taxes b) Literacy tests c) Grandfather clauses
500
What battle ended the Indian Wars?
What is Wounded Knee?
500
Identify each big business owner's company and area of expertise: Carnegie Vanderbilt Rockefeller
Carnegie: Carnegie Steel Co., manufactured steel using the Bessemer process and practiced vertical integration Vanderbilt: Railroad tycoon; used consolidation, and combined many small railroad companies into one large company Rockefeller: Standard Oil Co.; owned 90% of oil businesses, monopolist
500
These immigrants had a more difficult time assimilating into American society, because of their different cultures and beliefs
Who are the new immigrants?
500
Name 5 goals of the Progressives
Any of these answers would be acceptable: 1. improve conditions in slums and tenements 2. improve conditions in meat packing industry 3. improve conditions in factories 4. end child labor 5. Regulate the railroads 6. Put an end to monopolies 7. Conservation 8. Improve medicine safety 9. Woman's suffrage