Benchmarks Flashcards

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______________invented the railroad sleeping car.

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•George M Pullman

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The practice of combining separate companies in an industry is called a ____________.

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•consolidation

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______________invented the electric lightbulb.

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•Thomas Edison

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____________invented the telephone.

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•Alexander Graham Bell

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The steel company owner who was a great philanthropist was _____________.

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•Andrew Carnegie

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5
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Railroad barons were created when the industry ____________.

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•consolidated

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_____________ pioneered the assembly line.

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•Henry Ford

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Anti-labor feeling grew after the bloody clash in Chicago called the ____________ Riot.

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•Haymarket

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The demand to have a regulated schedule caused the railroad companies to create ____________.

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•time zones

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I. The late 1800s and early 1900s, many people moved to cities to take ____________jobs.

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•factory

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It took immigrants ____ days to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

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•12

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Many immigrant lived in urban apartment called ___________.

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•tenements

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_____________invented moving pictures.

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•Thomas Edison

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Most Asian immigrants went through processing center on ____________Island.

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•Angel

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___________was a settlement house founded by Jane Addams.

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•Hull House

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_________________ designed Central Park and several other parks in Boston.

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Fredrick Law Olmstand

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People might ___________from their homeland in order to find a better life in America.

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•Emigrate

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To improve living conditions of the poor, ______________houses were established.

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•settlement

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Many middle-class families moved from the cities into the ______________.

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•Suburbs

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To maintain their culture, immigrants with the same language and customs tended to live in the same __________groups.

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•ethnics groups and neighborhoods

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______________ was the first law passed to limit immigration.

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•Chinese Exclusion Act

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What law required that immigrants be able to read or write in some language?

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•Immigration Act of 1917

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___________argued that schools should be more hands- on and relate to students interest.

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•John Dewey

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People enjoyed cheering for homes teams or local sports strs while attending ___________sports.

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•spectator

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Nativist geared that immigrants would take away their jobs or drive down everyone's wages by ___________ ______ ______.
•accepting lower pay
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Overcrowding in the caused sanitation and health problems , these problems were _____ to solve.
•hard
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The __________ ______ provided funds for land- grant colleges.
•Morrill Act
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A__________ allows citizens to place a measure or an issue on the ballot in a state election.
•initiative
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A ___________allows voters the opportunity to accept or reject measure that the legislature enacted.
•referendum
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A __________ allows voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from their jobs.
•recall
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Who won the election of 1908?
•William Howard Taft.
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In 1913 the Bull Moose Party presidential candidate was ______________.
•Theodore Roosevelt
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What was the Political Boss?
•to gain voted by doing favors
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What was the sixteenth amendment?
•taxed American citizens based on their income.
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What was the seventeenth amendment?
•progressives wanted to five people an opportunity to vote for senators directly.
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What was the eighteenth amendment?
•banned the making or selling of alcohol
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What was the nineteenth amendment?
•Granted women the right to vote.
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__________ was the first state to allow women to vote.
•Wyoming
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Theodore Roosevelt promised the people a ____________ _________ if he was elected president in 1904.
•square deal
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Who helped found National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
•W.E.B Du Bios
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What is a muckraker?
•a journalist who uncovers corruption in a city.
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What is a labor union?
•An organization of wage earners that is set up to serve and advance it's members interests in terms of wages, benefits, and working hours and conditions.
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How many states are in the continental United States?
•48