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100
Why did African Americans leave the South?
Racial violence and discrimination in the South had increased.
100
What are the two main goals of Labor Unions?
Advocate for better pay and safer working conditions.
100
Who came up with the Assembly Line
Henry Ford
100
What is industrialization?
Moving towards more industry (factories) and away from farming and small business.
100
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th
200
What is happening in this map?
Great Migration of African Americans from the south to northern cities
200
Susan B. Anthony is associated with what Progressive Era movement?
Womens Suffrage
200
An economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production...
Capitalism
200
What is Urbanization?
More cities less small towns
200
What is social darwinism?
"Survival of the fittest"
Social Darwinists believe that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin stated plants and animals had.
300
What are the people in the cartoon coming into conflict over?
Immigration
300
This cartoon expresses an opinion about the effects of women's suffrage on...
Gender roles
300
What is a Laissez Faire Economy
Little to no government oversight and regulation of businesses ("hands-off")
300
Who were the primary workforce for northern factories?
Immigrants and children
300
During the Gilded Age many immigrants supported city political bosses in exchange for...
Employment opportunities and other necessities
400
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
An absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States
400
Jane Addams opened the ________________ in Chicago to offer educational opportunities for poor Chicagoans.
Hull House
400
Powerful industrials like Carnegie and Rockefeller were called both “Captains of Industry” and “Robber Barons” because...
They provided new goods and services while underpaying their laborers.
400
Why were time zones created?
To coordinate the RAILROADS and TRAINS
400
Which president used a "square deal" as part of his domestic policy? What is a "square deal"?
Teddy Roosevelt, a chance to succeed
500
What are Ethnic Enclaves (Neighborhoods)?
New immigrants prefered to live near members of their ethnic group
(ex: Little Italy, Chinatown)
500
What Progressive Era reforms were inspired by the events at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory?
Workplace safety/fire safety
500
_________ and __________ are organizations of several businesses in the same industry controlling the market
Monopolies and Trusts
500
The ____________________________ united two sides of the country. The Union Pacific and Northern Pacific.
Transcontinental Railroad
500
What do these three have in common?
The Dawes Act, Indian Citizenship Act, Homestead Act
Legislation negatively impacting Native Americans
600
What is Nativism?
An extreme dislike for immigrants by native born people
600
How did Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle contribute to a change in the government’s role in the economy?
It led to federal legislation to regulate the food industry. (Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act)
600
What is horizontal integration?
600
"A new method of communication was first successfully tested in 1844 when a message was sent from Washington, D.C., to a railroad station in Baltimore, Maryland. After that, Americans had a powerful tool that made trains run more safely, enabled business to be conducted more easily across great distances, and helped westward expansion."
What new technology is being described?
The Telegraph
600
_________ is a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.
Populism
700
What do all three of these have in common?
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1888, Quota Act of 1921, National Origins Act of 1924
Anti-Immigration Acts
700
"The party’s platform endorsed labor unions, decried long work hours, and championed the graduated income tax as a way to redistribute wealth from business to farmers and laborers."
What political party is being described here?
The Populist Party
700
What is vertical integration?
700
How did railroads impact farming in the West?
They connected farms with distant markets for selling their harvest.
700
Why did the US gov't pass the Dawes Act of 1887?
They wanted to assimilate Native Americans to white culture