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| Identify the elements that led to rapid growth in industry |
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| natural resources, communication, transportation, inventions, laborers/workers, capitalism |
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| Name the two companies that built the transcontinental railroad. |
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| Union Pacific and Central Pacific |
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| What two immigrant groups built the railroad? |
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| Name the two things the government gave the railroad to encourage construction |
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| cheap loans and land grants |
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| Where did the transcontinental railroad meet? |
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| Identify Standard Oil Company. |
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| Founded by Rockefeller, controlled 95% of US oil, dominated the oil business in the late 1800s. |
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| Identify the two inventions that brought about the communication revolution. |
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| Identify the Haymarket Riot. |
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| Led to a decline in Union membership |
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| Identify the Commerce Clause. |
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| states that the government has the right to regulate interstate, Indian, and foreign trade |
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| Wha clause was the first to regulate a business? |
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| What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act stop? |
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| men who made their fortunes by stepping on others |
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| Identify Captains of Industry |
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| men who guided our country in industrial growth |
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| Who were the Knights of Labor and what did they fight for? |
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| First industrial worker's union, campaigned for safety and health codes, equal pay for equal work, 8 hour work days and to end child labor |
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| Define the Gospel of Wealth and who believed in it. |
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| Should be free to make as much money as possible, but you're then obligated to use the money to help others. Andrew Carnegie |
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| List the natural resources of Alabama that aided in the growth of industry. |
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| forset, rich mineral deposits, near perfect system of waterways, fertile soil |
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| introduced electricity as a power source, invented electric light, designed the electric power station |
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| invented a quick and easy away to mass produce steel (Bessemer Process) |
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| Identify Andrew Carnegie. |
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| King of Steel, founded the first Bessemer Steel Plant |
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| drilled the first oil well, Drake's Folly |
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| Identify John D. Rockefeller. |
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| King of Oil, founded Standard Oil Company |
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| Explain the negative conditions of laborers during the 1800s. |
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| Workplaces were unsafe and unsanitary, low and unequal pay, long hours, no composition if injured, forced to live in company towns, child labor |
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| Explain how companies fought agains unions. |
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| forbid union meetings and fired organizers, blacklisted union members, yellow dog contracts, acts of violence agains union members, fired strikers and hired scabs |
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| What is the main weapon of unions? |
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| Identify BIrmingham, Alabama. |
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| became the #1 steel city in Alabama |
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| Identify the Open Door Immigration Policy. |
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| Anyone could come to America |
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| Identify our immigration policy today. |
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quality-negative characteristics an prevent immigration
quantity-set number per year |
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| What is considered to be America's welcome to immigrants? |
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| Where is the Statue of Liberty? |
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| Who gave the Statue of Liberty to the US? Why? |
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| Immigration near San Francisco |
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| How do immigrants view America? |
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| Land of Freedom and Opportunity |
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| Who was the first group to be restricted from immigration? |
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| List four groups of people that were restricted from entering the US. |
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| criminals, insane, paupers, alcoholics |
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| America looked pretty on the outside, but was corrupt on the inside |
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| Identify William "Boss" Tweed. |
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| most corrupt city official, in charge of Tamminy Hall |
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| famous for bringing about the downfall of Boss Tweed, drew Democratic Donkey, Republican elephant, and Santa |
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| Identify the Know Nothings. |
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| secret society against immigrants |
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| What was the Spoils System? |
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| When an elected official gives friends and supporters gov. jobs |
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| Who supported the Spoils System? |
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| Identify the Pendleton Act. |
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| law passed to correct the problems in hiring civil servants |
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| What 2 factors led to an explosion in immigration in the late 1800s? |
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| industries recruited cheap labor, land ownership |
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| What vent led to the reform in hiring civil servants? |
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| assassination of President Garfield |
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| List the factors that led to the growth of US cities in the late 1800s. |
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| steady jobs, blacks fled the discrimination of the South, exodus from the farms to the factories, immigrants |
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| List the problems that developed in growing cities. |
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| crowded tenements developed into slum areas, air was heavy with smog, raw sewage attracted rats that spread diseases |
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| List facts about the building of the Panama Canal. |
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| built across the Isthmus of Panama, took ten years, a French company had already started the work |
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| Identify the Monroe Doctrine. |
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| Warned that the Western Hemisphere was off limits |
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| List the reasons for imperialism. |
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| economic factors, competition, strengthen the military, humanitarian |
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| List facts about the purchase of Alaska. |
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| first expansion after the Civil War, Secretary of State William Seward bought it from Russia, called it Seward's Folly |
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| largest state in size, highest mountain in US, 49th state (1959) |
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| List facts about the Cuban Rebellion. |
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| Cuba rebelled in 1895, US got involved after the Maine exploded, beat Spain, Cuba was independent |
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| known as The Butcher, cruel general |
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| What American business pushed the US into the war between Cuba and Spain? |
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| Explain how NY newspapers influenced the American public to join the war. |
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| practiced yellow journalism, Spain was the monster and Cuba the innocent victim |
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| US sent it to Cuba to evacuate Americans, it exploded, 266 sailors were killed |
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| What was the war between the US and Spain called? |
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| How long did the Spanish-American War last? |
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| Who was president during the Spanish-American War? |
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| When did the Spanish-American War occur? |
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| List facts about the Battle of Manilla Bay. |
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| lasted seven hours, Admiral George Dewey, no Americans were killed |
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| List facts about the Battle of San Juan Hill. |
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| most famous battle in Cuba, Teddy Roosevelt was a hero |
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| Who were the Rough Riders? |
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| Who led the Rough Riders? |
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| Identify the Treaty of Paris 1898. |
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| signaled that America won the war, Cuba would be free, US would gain Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam |
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| What was the Platt Amendment? |
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| stated the US could own and operate a naval base on the Southern tip of Cuba, Guantanamo Bay |
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| Which President built the Panama Canal? |
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| List the terms of the original canal treaty. |
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| Us would pay $10 million for the right to build, pay $250,000 per year for rent, US had a right to a 10 mile wide canal zone |
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| famous military doctor from Alabama, helped whip out diseased mosquitoes |
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| Identify President Jimmy Carter. |
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| turned over operation of the canal to Panama in 2000 |
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| Its the three ways the US first became involved with Hawaii. |
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| way station, Christian missionaries, US immigrants started sugar plantations |
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| naval base built in 1887 in Hawaii |
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| When and why did Hawaii become an American Territory? |
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| 1898, we needed them as a way station |
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| people who oppose owning colonies in foreign lands |
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| Secretary of State that created the open door policy with China |
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| Identify the Boxer Rebellion. |
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| Secret society agains foreign devils |
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| How did Teddy Roosevelt become President? |
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| VP when Mckinley was assassinated |
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| What was the quote Roosevelt used when he discussed his foreign policy? |
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| Speak softly and carry a big stick |
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| Identify Roosevelt's Corollary. |
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| US would be the police power of the Western Hemisphere |
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| List the three progressive presidents. |
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| Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, Woodrow Wilson |
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| List the two goals of the Progressive Movement. |
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| end abuse and corruption in government and business and increase democracy by giving more power to the people |
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| nickname for writers and reporters who investigated and exposed corruption |
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| Who nicknamed muckrakers? |
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| wrote for McClure's, articles were called "Shame of the Cities," exposed corrupt ties between big businesses and city governments |
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| wrote about monopolies, main target: Standard Oil, Rockefeller put her father out of business |
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| meatpacking, wrote The Jungle |
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| most popular progressive magazine of its day |
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| Identify the Pure Food and Drug Act. |
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| sanitation requirements and truthful labels |
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| Identify the Meat Inspection Act. |
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| gave the government the right to inspect meat from the corral to the can |
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| List the improvements for workers as a result of the Progressive Movement. |
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| max work hours for women and children, first minimum wage was 25 cents an hour, worker's compensation if injured on the job, safety requirements, child labor laws |
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| The Federal Trade Commission enforced what type of laws? |
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| Identify Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. |
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| led the women's suffrage movement 1800s |
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| Identify the 16th Amendment. |
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| gave the government the right to collect income tax |
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| Identify the 17th Amendment. |
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| allowed popular election of senators |
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| Identify the 18th Amendment. |
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| Identify the 19th Amendment. |
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| Jane Adams started what community center? |
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| Who worked with Jane Adams? |
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| Who did Florence Kelly have the government investigate? |
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| working conditions of women and children |
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| reformer in Alabama, mother of coeducation in Alabama, Angel of the Prison |
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| What did Margaret Sanger push for the spread of information about? |
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| List facts about Booker T. Washington. |
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| founded Tuskegee Institute (president of it for 34 years), stressed vocational education for blacks, nonprotests |
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| List facts about WEB Dubois. |
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| first black man to receive a PhD from Harvard, encourages professional education, thought social and political equality should be top priority, thought Washington thought blacks were 2nd class citizens |
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| What is the Niagara Movement? |
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| Dubois demanded full equality for blacks and to end racial discrimination and Jim Crow Laws. |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded by Dubois and seven white liberals |
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| List facts about George Washington Carver. |
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| teacher at Tuskegee, discovered 300 products from the peanut, taught Southern farmers about crop rotation |
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| What is the Federal Reserve System? |
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| What two new departments were added to the cabinet during the Progressive Era? |
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| Department of Labor and Department of Commerce |
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| preeducation reformer and established normal schools |
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| List facts about the election of 1912. |
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| Taft and Roosevelt both sought the Republican nomination for President. Taft won. Roosevelt started the Progressive Party. The Republican party's votes were split and the democrats (Wilson) won the Presidency. |
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| Who was the first active conservation president? |
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