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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Poll tax | Money you had to pay before you vote |
| Progressivism | Movement responded to the pressure of industrialization/urbanization by promoting reforms |
| Populist party | Political formed to advocate large money supply/economic reforms |
| Protective tariff | Tax on imported goods. Price is high enough to protect domestic goods |
| New nationalism | Roosevelt's plan to restore the governments trust-busting power |
| New freedom | Wilson's program to place government controls on corporations that small businesses benefit |
| Nativism | Belief that nativ-born white Americans are superior to newcomers |
| New immigrants | Southern and eastern European immigrants who arrived in a great wave |
| Laissez faire | Lenient as in the absence of government control over private business |
| Company towns | One company for housing, jobs, shopping in a community |
| Cash crop | Crop grown for cash |
| Open range | Grassland |
| Monopoly | One company have the control over an entire industry |
| Muckraker | Writer uncovers and expose political/business problems |
| Bessemer process | Method to make steel more efficiently |
| Jim crow laws | Segregation laws enacted in the south after reconstruction |
| Social Darwinism | The strongest is alive |
| Exodusters | African Americans migrated from the south to the west after civil war |
| Gilded age | Post reconstruction era / facade of prosperity |
| Knights of labor | Labor union organize all workers / focused on broad social reforms |
| Temperance movement | Try to stop alcohol abuse & problems |
| Homestead act | Law that gave land to citizens who willing to live on/ cultivate it for 5 years |
| Sand creek massacre | Colorado military killed a camp is Cheyenne/Arapaho Indians |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Imperialism | Political, military, economic domination from strong nations over weaker territories |
| Blacklist | List of persons who were not hired cause of suspected Communist ties |
| Treaty of fort Laramie | Treaty that restrict Indians to specific areas away from the major trials |
| Tenement | Building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible |
| Wounded knee massacre | Confrontation between u.s. cavalry and Sioux the end of Indian resistance |
| Ellis island | New York harbor first place for immigrants when they arrived in the united states |
| Insurrection | Rebellion |
| Dollar diplomacy | President taft's policy of expanding American investments abroad |
| Sweatshop | Small factory where worker have to work long hours under poor conditions for little pay |
| Spoils system | Political party gave jobs/appointments to their supporters rather than to people based on to their qualifications |
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