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