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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the Jim Crow Laws? | laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south. |
| What is the 13 Amendment? | an 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that bans slavery throughout the United States |
| What is the 14th Amendment? | an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws. |
| What is the 15th Amendment? | an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race |
| Who is Susan B. Anthony? | set up the National Women Suffrage Association |
| Who is Alexander Graham Bell? | invented the telephone in1876 also called the talking machine |
| What were the Black Codes? | Southern Laws that severely limited limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War. |
| What is a Boycott? | to refuse to buy or use certain goods or services |
| What is the free enterprise system? | economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens who decide what to produce, how much to produce and what prices to change. |
| Who is Andrew Carnegie? | Captain of the steel industry. |
| What is a Carpetbagger? | an complimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War |
| What is Castle Garden? | it is the 1st immigration center on the east coast |
| Who is Carrie Chapman Catt? | was a leader of the National Women Suffrage Association. Made up a plan to fight for suffrage state to state. |
| What is Collective Bargaining? | process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with the management for a contract |
| Who is Fredrick Douglas? | an abolitionist he wanted all people to have equal rights. |
| What is a corporation? | business owned by investors |
| What did W.E.B DuBois do? | organized the NAACP for equal rights of African Americans |
| What did Thomas Edison do? | invented the phonograph and the first machine showing moving pictures. |
| What is Ellis Island? | a place where immigrants had to face medical inspection |
| Who is Henry Frick? | had a partnership with Carnegie in the steel industry |
| What is a tenement? | small apartment in a city slum building |
| Who is Samuel Gompers? | Was an American Labor Union leader |
| Who were the old immigrants? | people coming from England, Ireland, Germany and Scandinavia |
| Who were the new immigrants? | people coming from Italy, Poland Greece, Russia, Hungary and Asia. |
| What is Imperialism? | policy of powerful countries seeking control the economic and political affairs of weaker countries or regions |
| What is integration? | mixing of different racial or ethic groups |
| What was the Ku Klux Klan? | secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence. |
| What is a Labor Union? | an organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions |
| What is a Laissez Faire? | idea that the government should play as small as a role as possible in economic affairs. |
| What is the League of Nations? | association of nations formed after WWI under Wilson's Fourteen Points Plan |
| What did Cyrus McCormick invent? | the reaper |
| What is a Monopoly? | 27. a company or group having control of all or nearly all of business of an industry |
| What did Samuel Morse invent? | the telegraph |
| What is a muckraker? | journalist who exposed corruption and other problems of the late 1800s and early 1900s |
| What did Alice Paul do? | she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage |
| What is a Picket? | a pointed or sharpened stake, post or pale. |
| Who were the Plains Indians? | people living on the Great Plains of North America |
| What was Plessy v. Ferguson? | an 1896 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal. |
| What is populism? | a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people |
| What is a primary? | election in which voters choose their party's candidate for the general election. |
| What is reconstruction? | rebuilding of the South after the Civil War |
| What is a Robber Baron? | a business owner or executive who acquires wealth through ethically questionable tactics |
| Who is John D. Rockefeller? | found the Standard Oil Company. |
| What is segregation? | legal separation of people based on racial, ethic, or other differences |
| What is a sharecropper? | a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop. |
| What was the Sherman Anti-trust Act? | an 1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States. |
| What is Socialism? | a system of society or group living in which there is no private property |
| What is states' rights? | the right of states to limit the power of the federal government |
| What is a strike? | refusal by workers to do their jobs until their demands are met. |
| What is a Suffragist? | person who worked for women's right to vote |
| What was the Treaty of Versailles? | treaty signed on June 28, 1919, by Germany and the Allies; formally places by responsibility for the war on Germany and its allies. |
| What was the Triangle Fire? | fire in 1911 at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in NYC that killed nearly 150 workers. |
| What is yellow journalism? | news reporting, often biased or untrue, that relies on sensational stories and headlines. |
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