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Amendments The Gilded Age Progressive Presidents Women Minority Groups 10 20 30 40 50 40 30 20 10 50 40 30 20 10 50 40 30 20 10 50 40 30 20 10
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Topic 1 – 10 Points QUESTION: What was a crusading journalist who exposed corruption? ANSWER: muckraker
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Topic 1 – 20 Points QUESTION: What was a system where government jobs were based on merit? ANSWER: civil service
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Topic 1 – 30 Points QUESTION: What was a major concern during the Gilded Age? ANSWER: dishonesty in the government the rich becoming rich at the expense of the public corruption
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Topic 1 – 40 Points QUESTION: What act prohibited rebates? ANSWER: The Interstate Commerce Act
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Topic 1 – 50 Points QUESTION: What was the Gilded Age most famous for? ANSWER: the modern industrial economy
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Topic 2 – 10 Points QUESTION: Name the three Progressive Presidents. ANSWER: Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson
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Topic 2 – 20 Points QUESTION: What was a person working to destroy monopolies and trusts called? (Hint- Theodore Roosevelt is an example.) ANSWER: trustbuster
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Topic 2 – 30 Points QUESTION: What two groups of people had the strongest support for President William McKinley? ANSWER: bankers business leaders
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Topic 2 – 40 Points QUESTION: Name two reforms made by President William Howard Taft. ANSWER: raised tariffs regulated child labor created the 8 hour work day
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Topic 2 – 50 Points QUESTION: Name two reforms made by President Woodrow Wilson. ANSWER: New Freedom Federal Trade Commission Clayton Antitrust Act
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Topic 3 – 10 Points QUESTION: What event started the women’s rights movement in the United States? ANSWER: Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
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Topic 3 – 20 Points QUESTION: What word describes a person who campaigned for voting rights for women? ANSWER: suffragist
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Topic 3 – 30 Points QUESTION: Name three of the four states women won the right to vote in by the late 1800s. ANSWER: Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah
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Topic 3 – 40 Points QUESTION: What was the goal of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union? ANSWER: ban the sale of liquor
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Topic 3 – 50 Points QUESTION: What did women’s clubs first focus on? ANSWER: knowledge (Ex. reading books)
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Topic 4 – 10 Points QUESTION: What word describes murder by a mob or large group of people? ANSWER: lynching
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Topic 4 – 20 Points QUESTION: What word describes prejudice against Jews? ANSWER: anti-Semitism
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Topic 4 – 30 Points QUESTION: What advice did Booker T. Washington give African Americans? ANSWER: learn trades to gradually move up in society
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Topic 4 – 40 Points QUESTION: The Gentleman’s Agreement was between what two nations? ANSWER: United States Japan
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Topic 4 – 50 Points QUESTION: Why did most Asian Americans migrate to Hawaii? ANSWER: to work on the sugar plantations that were there
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Topic 5 – 10 Points QUESTION: What did the 16 th Amendment do? ANSWER: gave Congress the right to pass an income tax.
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Topic 5 – 20 Points QUESTION: What did the 17 th Amendment do? ANSWER: it required the direct election of senators
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Topic 5 – 30 Points QUESTION: What did the 18 th Amendment do? ANSWER: it placed a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
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Topic 5 – 40 Points QUESTION: What did the 19 th Amendment do? ANSWER: it gave women the right to vote
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Topic 5 – 50 Points QUESTION: What did the 18 th Amendment enforce? ANSWER: prohibition- ( a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol)
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