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Mr. McD chpt. 7,8,9 exam
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Social Studies
11th Grade
11/30/2012

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Andrew Carnegie
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Steel tycoon. funded many public libraries. philanthropist
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immigrants
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tended to live in cities around people of the same ethnicity as themselves
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mass culture
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World's Fairs and Baseball is an example of this
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skyscrapers
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were built with steel frames and elevators
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nativists
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were opposed to immigrants, believed immigrants were poor, uneducated, and would not become productive workers
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mass transit like rail cars
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allowed workers to live farther away from work forming suburbs
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Hull House
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founded by Jane Addams in Chicago. assisted immigrants in integrating into society.
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Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Stalkings
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two early professional baseball teams
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William Tweed
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was the political boss of corrupt NYC
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Ellis Island
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where most Southern and Eastern Europeans entered the U.S.
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18th amendment
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made alcohol illegal
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Boooker T Washington
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believed that African Americans should first improve their education
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the Pendleton Civil Service Act
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established a merit system for federal jobs
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Progressives
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reformers that wanted to address social and political problems of the Gilded Age
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19th amendment
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gave Women the right to vote
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WEB DuBois
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challenged Booker T. Washington's ideas
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Anti-Saloon League
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found against alcohol abuse
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Lincoln Stephens
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a muckraker that fought against political corruption
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Ida B. Wells Barnett
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wrote about lynching in the South as a muckraker
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middle class, educated white women
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what group fueled the progressive movement (of women)
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Capitalism
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a system in which the government owns the means of production
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Herbert Spencer
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believed in Social Darwinism
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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fire in NY where over 100 factory workers died in a fire
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temperance movement
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the movement to ban alcohol
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Progressive Era
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the social and political reaction to the Gilded Age
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New Immigrants
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came from East and south Europe. places like Italy and Poland
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Steerage
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area of the ship where poor immigrants travelled
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nativist
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person who already lived in America and looked down on Immigrants
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Square Deal
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Teddy Roosevelt's promise to America
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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NAACP stands for:
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conservation
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efforts to maintain our natural resources
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Woodrow Wilson
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the first democrat to be elected president in 20 years
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pipes to carry water in and carry sewage out
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the remedy to well water and sewage in the ground
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racial harmony in Homewood
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Italians sympathized with the lot of African Americans in Homewood. Westinghouse was integrated
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Christopher Magee
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political boss of Pittsburgh
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