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Bertke- American History 1st 9 Weeks
Bertke-Exam- American History- First 9 weeks
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History
10th Grade
10/16/2012

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Industrialization helped create a (upper, middle, lower class)
Definition
middle class
Term
Relies on supply and demand to regulate prices and wages
Definition
Laissez-faire
Term
A law that banned Chinese immigration for 10 years and wouldn't let any new Chinese become citizens.
Definition
Chinese Exclusion Act
Term
A policy used by strong countries to gain control over foreign territories.
Definition
Imperialism
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Why was land offered to each company building the transcontinental railroad?
Definition
To speed up construction
Term
What type of people did the Central Pacific Railroad hire because of lack of workers in California.
Definition
Chinese
Term
How did railroad companies raise money to build the railroads
Definition
Selling the land that the govt. gave them
Term
A list of "trouble makers" who tried to organize strikes
Definition
Blacklist
Term
European Immigrants came to what place first
Definition
Ellis Island
Term
Asian immigrants came to what place first
Definition
Angel Island
Term
Nativists did not like
Definition
Immigration
Term
Why were subways systems created
Definition
So there were less cars on the streets
Term
What court case ruled segregation unconstitutional?
Definition
Brown vs. Board
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What court case said that "separate but equal" was ok?
Definition
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Term
Name 3 problems with urban society in the late 1800's
Definition
bad sewage disposal
crime
bad garbage disposal
Term
What did southern states do to keep African Americans from voting? (involves money)
Definition
Made a poll tax
Term
What organization was made to help the urban poor?
Definition
Salvation Army
Term
What seemed to help immigrants adjust well?
Definition
Living near their own ethnic group
Term
What was the most used form of mass transit in the late 1800's
Definition
horsecar
Term
What type of people lived in the suburbs?
Definition
Middle class
Term
Why did President Pierce send a naval expedition to japan?
Definition
to force them to trade with the U.S.
Term
According to the treaty that ended the Spanish American War, Who was the U.S. supposed to free and who were they annexing?
Definition
Free- Cuba
Annex- Puerto Rico, Guam
Term
Why did President McKinley send the battleship Maine to Havana?
Definition
To evacuate Americans
Term
What was the treaty at the end of the Spanish American War?
Definition
Treaty of Paris
Term
What two railroads made up the transcontinental railroad
Definition
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Term
Why was Roosevelt chosen as McKinley's running mate in 1900?
Definition
War fame popularity
Term
What did the American Railway Association do to make rail service more reliable?
Definition
divided the country into time zones
Term
Volunteer cavalry that helped during the Spanish American War?
Definition
"Rough Riders"
Term
Why did support for a large navy grow in the late 1800's?
Definition
So that the U.S. didn't get shut out of foreign markets
Term
What type of store brought together a huge number of products all in one large building?
Definition
Department Store
Term
What did companies use to break a union by refusing to pay them or let them into the property?
Definition
Lock Out
Term
By the 1890's, most of the immigrants in the U.S. came from where
Definition
Eastern Europeans
Southern Europeans
Term
Why did Chinese come to the U.S. in the 1860's?
Definition
to work on the railroads
Term
Why did labor unions not like immigrants?
Definition
They worked for very low wages
Term
What is a imperial power that allows the local govt. to stay in place but protects them from invasion?
Definition
Protectorate
Term
Who did Americans blame the explosion of the Maine on?
Definition
Spain
Term
Segregation Laws
Definition
Jim Crow Laws
Term
Jane Addams established the first what?
Definition
Settlement Houses
Term
Cheapest and most basic conditions on a ship
Definition
Steerage
Term
Who Wrote "How the other half lives"?
Definition
Jacob Riis
Term
What were the small apartments that immigrants lived in?
Definition
Tenements
Term
Who invented the phone?
Definition
Alexander Graham Bell
Term
Another word for separation?
Definition
Segregation
Term
This is owned by many but treated by the law like it is only owned by one.
Definition
A corporation
Term
People who risk they money to run a business
Definition
Entrepreneur
Term
The idea that no matter where you come from you can rise as far as you want.
Definition
Individualism
Term
What are examples of fixed costs?
Definition
Loans
Mortgages
Taxes
Term
In the early 1900's America became the largest _________ nation.
Definition
Industrial
Term
When a single company controls an entire market
Definition
Monopoly
Term
Which railroad was the only one that didn't go bankrupt?
Definition
Great Northern
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