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What era does the gilded age represent?

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1870s - 1890s

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How many people left rural America for the cities during the gilded age?

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7 million

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What were the main two entrance points for the immigrants?

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Ellis and Angel islands

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What is the desire for politics that favor native born Americans?

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Nativism

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What were the desirable races?

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British German and Scandinavian

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What were the undesirable races?

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Slav Latin and Asiatic races

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What act said that no more Chinese could enter into America?

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Chinese exclusion act

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What was the social campaign to assimilate new immigrants into American culture?

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Americanization movement

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Who wrote the book Hull House in 1889?

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Jane Addams

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What were signs of urbanization?

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Poverty, mass transit – trolleys, tenements – shack apartments, crime and disaster

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What group put forth the desirable and undesirable races?

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Immigration restriction league

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What president came up with the square deal?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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What is it when all companies raise their prices in secret with each other?

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Trust

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What party did Theodore Roosevelt come up with?

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Bull-Moose party

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What made company officials involved in a trust can be prosecuted and explicitly legalizes unions and strikes?

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Clayton antitrust act

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What was the time period of the progressive era?

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1900 - 1920

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What was the 16th amendment?

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Federal income tax

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What was the 17th amendment?

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Direct election of Senators

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What was the 18th amendment?

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Prohibition of manufacture sale or transport of intoxicating liquors

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What was the 19th amendment?

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Women’s suffrage

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Who came up with the 10% plan for the South’s reconstruction?

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Abraham Lincoln

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What at the South under marshall law except for Tennessee?

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Reconstruction act of 1867

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What made up the compromise of 1877?

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Hayes will become president 1. removal of remaining federal troops 2. federally funded railroad network in the south 3. Democrats to Hayes cabinet

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What was the meeting point between savagery and civilization, a place of rapid and effective Americanization?

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Frontier

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Who was Abraham Lincoln successor?
Andrew Johnson
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Which state was this man involved with politics?
Tennessee
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He was the only senator to do what?
Stay in the union
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What was the period during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War and started to readmit the Confederate states?
Reconstruction
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What was another name for Lincolns proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction?
Ten percent plan
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Who were the radical Republicans led by?
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens
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Where is Charles Sumner from?
Massachusetts
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Where is Thaddeus Stevens from?
Pennsylvania
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What propose that Congress should be responsible for the reconstruction instead of the president?
Wade - Davis bill
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What did Lincoln use to kill the Wade - Davis Bill?
Pocket veto
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Which amendment abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
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Was Johnson in favor of letting former slaves gain the right to vote?
No
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Who led the radical Republican legislators?
Thaddeus Stevens
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What assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing and food?
Freedmen's bureau
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Johnson shocked everyone when he vetoed both the Freedmen's Bureau act and the civil rights act
Yes
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What were discriminatory laws that severely restricted African-American lives?
Black codes
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Who has the sole power to impeach federal officials?
The House of Representatives
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What act stated that the president cannot remove cabinet members?
Tenure of office act and would have to get consent of the Senate
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What Gov. from New York ran against Ulysses S. Grant for the presidency?
Seymour
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What's states that no one could be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
15th Amendment
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Who was the 15th amendment an important victory for?
Radicals
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Who gave the federal government more power to punish those who try to prevent African-Americans from exercising their rights?
Enforcement act of 1870
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Where was Andrew Carnegie born?
Scotland
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What business was Andrew Carnegie's?
Steel
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What is a process in which you buy out your suppliers?
Vertical integration
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What is it called when companies producing similar products merge?
Horizontal integration
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What was the name of Charles Darwin's book?
On the origin of species
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What is complete control over industries production of wages and prices?
Monopoly
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Late 19th century social philosophers offered a different explanation for Carnegie success
Social Darwinism
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Who established the standard oil Company?
Rockefeller
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What are people who run separate companies as one large corporation?
A group of trustees
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What made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries?
Sherman antitrust act
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Who formed the national labor union?
Sylvis
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Who was president of the American Federation of labor?
Gompers
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Which union used strikes as a major tactic?
American Federation of labor
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Who attempted to form the American Railway Union?
Debs
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What is an economic and political system based on government control of business and property and equal distribution of wealth?
Socialism
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Who headed the industrial workers of the world?
Big Bill Haywood
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What was the nickname for the industrial workers of the world?
Wobblies
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What protested police brutality?
The Haymarket affair
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What did employees have to sign swearing that they would not join a union?
Yellow-dog contracts
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Who wrote the late 18th century novel the Gilded Age?
Mark Twain
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What was an organized group that control the activities of a political party in the city?
Political machine
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Who was the boss in New York?
Roscoe Conkling
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Who was the Democratic city boss in Kansas City?
Pendergast
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What was the illegal use of political influence for personal gain?
Graft
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Who was head of Tammany Hall New York City's powerful democratic political machine?
William Tweed
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What was William Tweed also known as?
Boss Tweed
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Who was a political cartoonist that helped arouse public outrage against Tammany Hall's graft?
Thomas Nast
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What is the giving of government jobs to people who let help the candidate get elected?
Patronage
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What was the patronage policy known as and Andrew Jackson's administration?
The spoils system
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What was jobs in government administration known as?
Civil service
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What president tried to reform civil service?
Rutherford B. Hayes
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What president seceded Rutherford B. Hayes?
James Garfield
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What made appointments to federal jobs do a merit system based on candidates performance on it examination?
Pendleton civil service act
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What president tried to lower tariff rates?
Grover Cleveland
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Whose campaign was financed by large contributions from companies that wanted tariffs even higher than they were?
Benjamin Harrison

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