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Practice for test 2
5-2-18 Review
Question | Answer |
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What did Abe Lincoln want during the Civil War | Preserve the Union |
What was the Great Compromise | It created two houses of government bicameral legislature |
Temperance movement | Women were mad and blamed all societal problems on alcohol |
The Great Migration | When African Americans moved from the South to the North for Jobs |
John Locke | Natural rights, life, liberty and pursuit of property |
Irish | First Catholic group came here because of the Potato famine |
Nativists | American who don't like immigrants, they fear they will take away their jobs |
Suffrage | Women demanded voting rights |
Prohibition | Banning the sale and distribution of alcohol |
Al Capone | An organized crime mobster |
Organized Crime | It increased due to prohibition |
Consumerism | When people were buying products on credit |
Muckrakers | writers, journalists who exposed the evil of industrialization |
Jacob Riis | wrote a book "How the other half Lives" about urban slums |
Upton Sinclair | wrote a book "the jungle" about the meat factories |
Electoral College | the process of how a President is selected |
Mayflower Compact | first steps toward democracy in America |
American Revolution | the war for independence against Great Britain |
Tea act | A tax on tea, one reason we will have the American revolution |
Flappers | Women who rejected traditional norms of society |
Mother Jones | Women who fought to end child labor |
Robber Barons | A business owner who uses ruthless tactics |
John D. Rockefeller | Entrepreneur that had a monopoly on oil |
Andrew Carnegie | Entrepreneur that had a monopoly on steel |
Henry Ford | Used the assembly line to mass produce the automobile |
Susan B. Anthony | A leader for Women's rights movement |
13th, 14th, 15th Amendment | Rights that were given to African Americans after the civil war |
Jim Crow laws | Segregation laws in the south |
Plessy v. Ferguson | A court case that legalized segregation in the south |
Black Codes | Laws that restricted African Americans from advancing in the south |