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What is conservatio n?
Protection of Natural Resources
What is a suffragist?
People who work for women’s right to vote
What is graduated income tax?
A method of taxation that taxes people at different rates depending on income
What is a Trustbuster ?
A person working to destroy monopolies and trusts
What is Anti- Semitism?
Prejudice against people of the Jewish religion
What does the Gilded Age mean?
Coated with a thin layer of gold paint
What was one of two things Americans feared during this time?
Industrialists and wealthy men Corruption and dishonesty in the government
What did James Garfield’s assassination help to end ?
The Spoils system
Why did people not like Boss Tweed?
He ended up stealing more then $100 Million from NYC
What was the 16 th Amendment?
Graduated Income tax
Who became President after William McKinley was assassinated ?
Theodore Roosevelt
What did Theodore Roosevelt do to change the food industry?
Pure Food and Drug Act
Name one of the three things that William Howard Taft did.
He broke up trusts, believed in graduated income, safety rules for mines, and gave government workers an 8 hour work day
What did the Federal Trade Commission have the power to do?
It had the power to investigate companies and order them to stop using unfair practices
What did the Federal Reserve Act do?
It gave the government the power to raise or lower interest rates and control the money supply
Name 2 of the 4 states that allowed women the right to vote.
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
Prohibition
What is the 19 th Amendment?
Women’s right to vote
Name 1 out of 2 women who worked to make liquor illegal.
Florence Kelley and Carry Nation
What President pledged his support for the women’s right to vote?
Woodrow Wilson
Who was not allowed to immigrate to America under the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The Chinese
Where did African Americans face discrimination ?
In the North and the South
Why did Catholics set up Parochial schools?
Because they were being discriminat ed against
What was the Gentlemen’s Agreement?
Japan would stop any more workers coming to the US, and the US would allow wives to join their husbands who were already here
What happened in Mexico in 1910 that increased the immigration to the US?
There was a famine