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| To deny a person their right to vote. |
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| Testing a person’s literacy to determine their eligibility to vote, meant to disenfranchise black voters. |
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| A tax to determine a person’s eligibility to vote meant to disenfranchise black voters. |
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| A person’s eligibility to vote is determined by whether their grandfather could vote meant to disenfranchise black voters. |
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| Court Case that established the doctrine of “separate but equal.” |
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| African American educator; everyone’s money is green, African Americans should seek equality through vocational training and employment. |
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| Atlanta Compromise Speech |
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| Speech by Booker T. Washington asking African Americans to go to work and Southern Whites to hire them. |
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| African American Educator, 1st African American to graduate from Harvard, African American should seek Academic education and demand immediate equal rights including the right to vote. |
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| Organization started by WEB Dubois and other African Americans for equal rights, established by leaders of the Niagara Movement. |
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| Meeting of leading African Americans to discuss the movement for equal rights for African Americans at Niagara Falls. |
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| She was a teacher, editor of local newspaper, fought against lynching. |
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| Killing or torturing someone because of their race, beliefs. |
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| Movement of African Americans from the South to the North before, during and after WWI. |
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| Made clothes making more economical, invented by Elias Howe and perfected by Isaac Singer. |
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| Public amazement at tall buildings, made possible by steel skeletons. |
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| Sears and Roebuck, Montgomery Ward. |
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| Developed for home use by people like George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison. |
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| $5 day, assembly line, 8-10 hour workday, workers as consumers. |
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| Drink developed by a drug store clerk as an energy drink and cure for headaches. |
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| Moving pictures made possible by George Eastman and WK Dickson’s celluloid film. |
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| Camera developed by George Eastman, Camera could be bought for $25 and film could be developed and camera reloaded for $10. |
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| 1st commercial use of planes were for mail delivery. |
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| Social reformer that started a settlement house called The Hull House. |
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| Income Tax Amendment to the Constitution. |
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| Direct Election of Senators Amendment to the Constitution. |
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• Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution
• Volstead Act |
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| Women’s Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution. |
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| Female that worked for prohibition by walking into saloons with a hatchet and scolding customers while destroying liquor bottles. |
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| Coal Strike of 1902, United Mine workers go on strike, President T. Roosevelt threatens to send in the military to take over the mines if the workers do not go back to work. |
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| Northern Securities vs. US, 1904 |
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| Railroad Trust headed by J.P. Morgan, broken up by the Sherman Anti-trust Act. |
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| American Tobacco vs. US, 1911 |
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| Sherman Anti-trust Act used to break up American Tobacco into several different companies. |
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| Showed weakness in the Sherman Anti-trust Act, could not break up sugar monopoly. |
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| Payne-Aldrich Tariff, 1909 |
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| Tax on imports in the history of the United States, it split the Republican Party between Taft and Roosevelt. |
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| Made it illegal for railroads to give rebates for using a particular railroad company extended the Interstate Commerce Act to include communications. |
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| Republican from Wisconsin, lead way in regulating big business, especially railroad industry. |
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| Woodrow Wilson vs. William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt, won by Wilson. |
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| Progressive Party/Bull Moose |
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| Name given to Progressive Party in 1912 Presidential Election, candidate from this 3rd party was Theodore Roosevelt. |
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| Divided the nation into 12 banking districts and established a regional central bank in each one, purpose was to solidify the currency and stabilize the economy. |
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| Editor of McClure’s Magazine, one of the most famous and influential muckrakers. |
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| Journalist that exposed evils in society. |
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| Female Muckraker that tried to expose corruption in The Standard Oil Company. |
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| Wrote “The Jungle”, exposed the meat packing industry in Chicago. |
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| New York police reporter from Denmark, wrote about and took pictures of life in the slums of the big cities. |
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| Poor areas of the big cities. |
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| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
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| 146 workers, mainly female die in a fire leading to women and child labor reform. |
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