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200 pts 300 pts 400 pts 500 pts 100 pts 200 pts 300 pts 400 pts 500 pts 100 pts 200 pts 300 pts 400 pts 500 pts 100 pts 200 pts 300 pts 400 pts 500 pts 100 pts 200 pts 300 pts 400 pts 500 pts 100 pts Vocabulary Gilded Age& Political Reform Progressive Presidents The Rights of Women Struggles for Justice
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What is conservatio n?
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Protection of Natural Resources
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What is a suffragist?
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People who work for women’s right to vote
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What is graduated income tax?
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A method of taxation that taxes people at different rates depending on income
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What is a Trustbuster ?
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A person working to destroy monopolies and trusts
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What is Anti- Semitism?
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Prejudice against people of the Jewish religion
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What does the Gilded Age mean?
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Coated with a thin layer of gold paint
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What was one of two things Americans feared during this time?
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Industrialists and wealthy men Corruption and dishonesty in the government
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What did James Garfield’s assassination help to end ?
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The Spoils system
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Why did people not like Boss Tweed?
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He ended up stealing more then $100 Million from NYC
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What was the 16 th Amendment?
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Graduated Income tax
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Who became President after William McKinley was assassinated ?
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Theodore Roosevelt
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What did Theodore Roosevelt do to change the food industry?
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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Name one of the three things that William Howard Taft did.
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He broke up trusts, believed in graduated income, safety rules for mines, and gave government workers an 8 hour work day
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What did the Federal Trade Commission have the power to do?
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It had the power to investigate companies and order them to stop using unfair practices
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What did the Federal Reserve Act do?
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It gave the government the power to raise or lower interest rates and control the money supply
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Name 2 of the 4 states that allowed women the right to vote.
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Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho.
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What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
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Prohibition
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What is the 19 th Amendment?
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Women’s right to vote
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Name 1 out of 2 women who worked to make liquor illegal.
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Florence Kelley and Carry Nation
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What President pledged his support for the women’s right to vote?
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Woodrow Wilson
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Who was not allowed to immigrate to America under the Chinese Exclusion Act?
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The Chinese
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Where did African Americans face discrimination ?
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In the North and the South
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Why did Catholics set up Parochial schools?
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Because they were being discriminat ed against
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What was the Gentlemen’s Agreement?
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Japan would stop any more workers coming to the US, and the US would allow wives to join their husbands who were already here
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What happened in Mexico in 1910 that increased the immigration to the US?
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There was a famine
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