1129 Flashcards

1
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The what has been called the “melting pot of Nations”

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United States

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2
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America’s culture lot and what were influenced by it’s English background

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Religion

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3
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The King James version of the Bible is an what literary masterpiece

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English

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4
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During the what Europeans came to America to work in factories but dreamed of obtaining land for farming

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Old immigration

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5
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What occurred from the 1880s to World War I

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New immigration

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6
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What immigrants were the only group who never freely chose to come to America

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Black

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7
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Once a slave trader who wrote “Amazing Grace”

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John Newton

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8
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Immigrants from Cuba came to the United States in the 1960s to escape the dictatorship of who

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Fidel Castro

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9
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The American what like we migrated across the Bering Strait to reach America

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Indians

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10
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The what Jews came from Germany

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Ashkenazic

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11
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“The new colossus” is the name of a poem written by who

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Emma Lazarus

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12
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Rabbi who came to America searching for the Messiah

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Leopold Cohn

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13
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Most Americans were living in what areas before the war between the states

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Rural

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14
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Three constant dangerous to city dwellers were what, diseases, and crime

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Fires

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15
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The great what fired supposedly started when a cow kicked over a lantern

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Chicago

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16
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After losing his daughters who wrote “it is well with my soul”

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HG Spafford

17
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Factories were terrible working conditions were called what

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Sweatshops

18
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Those who work in factories were often what and children

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Woman

19
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Who organized the Knights of labor

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Uriah Stevens

20
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The Knights of labor support it an eight-hour workday and abolishment of what but they refuse to strike to accomplish their

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Child labor

21
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Who established the American Federation of labor

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Samuel Gompers

22
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Who was assassinated by Charles Guiteau

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James Garfield

23
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Who constructed a model company town

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George Pullman

24
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Farming shifted from self-sufficiency to work after the war between the states

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Commercial

25
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What were state laws regulating the rates and practices of grain elevators and railroads

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Granger laws

26
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What were paper money without Specie backing that were circulated during the war between the states

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Greenbacks

27
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Money is stable if it is based on a what standard

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Gold

28
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What act demonetized silver

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Coinage

29
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The populist party favored free and unlimited coinage of what at a ratio of 16 to 1

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Silver

30
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Three presidential candidate (by their party affiliations) in the election of 1892

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Grover Cleveland (democratic)
Benjamin Harrison (Republican)
James Weaver (populist)
31
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In nine 1896 who was the presidential nominee of both the Democratic and populist political parties

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William Jennings Bryan

32
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Leon Czolgosz assassinated President who

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McKinley