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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| trolley park | the first amusement park, that was built at the end of trolly lines and they were very popular with families |
| nickelodeons | theaters that were set up in converted stores or warehouses that charged a nickel admission. showed mostly comedies. |
| vaudeville | was a live theatrical performance that started during the 1870's and included ventriloquist, song and dance rountines, junglers, and trapeze artists. |
| yellow journalism | publishers who began urging reporters to look for sexy stories involving sex, murder, or any possible scandle(anything to sell newspapers) |
| jim crow laws | racial segregetion laws to separate white and black people in public and private facilities. |
| progressive movement | politician reformers struggled to make the government move responsive to the people. |
| prohibition | the banning of alcoholic beverages |
| muckrakers | journalist who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early 20th century |
| initiative | a bill originated by the people rather than law makers on the ballet |
| referendum | a vote on the initiative |
| recall | enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face another election before the end of their term if enough voters asked for it. |
| primary system | enabled voters instead of political machines to choose candidets for public office through a special popular election. |
| 16th amendment | legalized a graduated federal income tax |
| 17th amendment | each states legislative had chosen its own united states senators, which put even more power in the hands of party bosses and wealthy corporation hands |
| square deal | a term used to describe various progressive reforms sponsored by the roosevelt administration |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| 19th amendment | granted women the right to vote |
| how did new typesettiing machinery change newspapers? | it allowed printers to type quickly which led to publishers to craete larger and more interesting publications. |
| how did joseph pulitzer change the newspaper industry? | he craeted the large sunday edition for the new york world which introduced new features such as comics, sports sections, and womens pages competition changes newspaper |
| what was booker T. washington's main belief on ending racism? | he believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society. |
| what university in alabama was booker t washington in charge of during the late 1880's? | he headed the tuskegee normal and industrial institute now called tuskegee university |
| what was W.E.B Dubois the first african american to do? | he was the first african american to receive a doctorate from harvard in 1895 |
| how did dubois"s views on equality differ from booker T. washington? | he believed that blacks should seek a liberal arts education so that the african american community would have well-educated leaders. |
| what does the NAACP stand for? | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| what were the two main voting restrictions put on blacks in the south? | some states limited the vote to people who could read, and required registration officials to administer a literacy test to test reading. another requirement was the poll tax, an annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote. blacks were poor. |
| how did the grandfather clause help the white men? | whites did not have to follow by those rules. therefore the law was only for blacks. |
| what was the ruling in plessy v.s ferguson? | it ruled that the separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the fourteenth amendment. |
| what important doctrine did it establish throughout the united states? | it established the doctrine of " separate but equal" which allowed states to maintain segregated facilities for blacks and whites as long as they provided equal service. |
| who was upton sinclair? | a muckraking journalist who began research for a novel in 1904, his focus was the human condition in the stockyard of chicago. |
| what was the "jungle" | one of sinclairs books in 1906 which was the sickening conditions of the meat packing industry. |
| who won the 1908 presidential election replacing theodore roosevelt? | william howard taft |
| who won the 1912 presidential election? | woodrow wilson |
| what did the clayton antitrust act of 1914 prohibit? | it prohibited corporations from aquiring the stock of another if doing so would create a monopoly if a company violated the law, its officers could be procsecuted. |
| booker T washington was born enslaved, graduated from virginia's hampton institute. | .... |
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