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McLaughlin/Brown- U.S. History-CHS TAKS Review #4

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abolished slavery   13th Amendment  
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gave ex-slaves citizenship   14th Amendment  
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gave black males the right to vote   15th Amendment  
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Supreme Court decision that said "separate but equal" was legal; it made Jim Crow legal   Plessy v. Ferguson  
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name given to big business leaders of the era, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carneigie & J.P. Morgan   Robber Barons  
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low wages and child labor led to the organizing of these; Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor & the United Mine Workers were examples of these   labor unions  
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name given to writers of the era, they attempted to expose corruption in politics and industry   Muckrakers  
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government attempt at stopping big business monopolies   Sherman Anti-Trust Act  
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the Guilded Age was a time of severe political corruption; political machines, such as the Tweed Ring of New York City used their offices to gain much wealth   corruption  
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low prices led farmers to organize in groups such as the Grange and a political party called the ___   Populist Party  
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causes: mistreatment of Cubans by the Spanish, sinking of the U.S. Battleship Maine; results: U.S. acquires Puerto Rico, Guam, & the Phillippines; U.S. becomes a world power   Spanish American War- 1898  
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was an attempt to reform the corruption of the Gilded Age; Progressives wanted to improve the social, political, and economic conditions for workers, farmers, women, children and minorities   progressivism  
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popular president of the early 1900's who led the U.S. into a position of world power   Theodore Roosevelt  
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president during WW1   Woodrow Wilson  
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reform leader for women's rights and prohibition   Susan B. Anthony  
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founder of the NAACP   W.E.B. Dubois  
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the number one reason was: German subs sinking our ships, Zimmerman note   reason for U.S. involvement in WW1  
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WW1 peace treaty that redrew the map of Europe and made Germany pay huge amounts of war debts   Treaty of Versailles  
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peace plan for WW1; the most important of the 14 points was his League of Nations (world peace keeping org.); the U.S. Senate led by Henry Cabot Lodge refused to ratify the treaty fearing it would draw us into another war   Wilson's 14 Points  
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Southern blacks migrating to northern cities to escape poverty and Jim Crow   Great Migration  
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the U.S. became more industrialized and dependent on factories   industrialization  
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the population shifted to a majority living in cities and urban areas   urbanization  
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laws were passed to regulate child labor, wages and hours   labor laws  
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women's suffrage   19th Amendment  
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took 10 years to build; opened trade with the rest of the world   Panama Canal  
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