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2nd nine weeks exam
8th grade nine weeks exam
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History
8th Grade
12/10/2009

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Why did immigrants trave when coming to America?
Definition
Steerage, because most of them didn't have much money.
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Why did immigrants take low-paying industrial jobs?
Definition
They lacked lacked the skills needed for higher skilled jobs.
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Why did many immigrants families settle in neighborhoods with people from the same country?
Definition
Transition into American culture was difficult.
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Why did employers like immigrants to be their workers?
Definition
They were willing to work for lower pay.
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Why did labor unions oppose immigrants?
Definition
They feared all immigrants would take all jobs away from Americans.
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Why did African Americans move from the south to northeren cities in the 1890's?
Definition
They tried to escape descrimintaion and to find better economic opprotuniteis.
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System of public transportation
Definition
mass transit
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stuffy workshops in which workers work & repair for low wages.
Definition
sweatshops
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What change did the steel industry bring to architecture of the late 1800's?
Definition
Steel used to build skyscrapers that could use less space.
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overly crowded apartment building
Definition
tenements
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good government gathering spaces for recreation
Definition
settlement houses
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neighborhoods outside of a downtown area
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suburbs
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what were politics like during the guilded age?
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corrupt
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influence of political machines
Definition
often influenced city & country politics.
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16th amendment
Definition
allowed personal income to be taxed
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17th amendment
Definition
allowed americans to vote directly for U.S sentaors
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18th amendment
Definition
banned production, sale, transportation of alcholic berverages
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19th amendment
Definition
allowed women to vote
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procedure that allowed voters to propse a new law by collecting a petition
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initaitive
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allows voters to approve or reject a law already been past
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referundum
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Why did employers hire children? why did child labor continue even after reforms?
Definition
cheap labor & because the family needed the money
Term
run by private industries
Definition
capitalism
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government owns and opperates
Definition
socialism
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African American educator who encouraged African Americans to improve economic and educational opprotunites.
Definition
Booker T. Washington
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Theodore Roosevelt's idea for balancing the interest of consumers.
Definition
Square Deal
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guarenteed a portion of lost wages to workers injured on the job.
Definition
workers'  compensation laws
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practice of giving jobs to the winning candidate's supporters.
Definition
spoil system
Term
powerful orginizations that used both legal and illegal methods to get their candidates elecetd to public office
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political machines
Term
vote to remove an official from office
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recall
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building an empire by founding colonies of conquering other nations.
Definition
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avoiding involvement of affairs of other countries.
Definition
isolationism
Term
kind of journalism using exaggeration
Definition
yellow journalism
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why did imperialism gorw?
Definition
it was sparked by desire of other nations to find sources or raw materials to help industrial growth
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how did Japan handlethe foreign policy up the mid 1800s?
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isolationism
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Secretary of State, William H. Seward, many Americans thought Alaska was a frozen wasteland.
Definition
Seward's Folly
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What islands did the U.S gain control over?
Definition
Guam, Phillipenes, Cuba & Puerto Rico.
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What was the result of the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine?
Definition
RalliedAmericans against Spain.
Term
What was the extension of the Monroe Doctrine?
Definition
Roosevelt Corollay
Term
What contributed to tensions in Europe at the beggining of the 20th century?
Definition
nationalism & militarism
Term
aggressive strenthing of armed forces
Definition
militarism
Term

Name the battles-
1. French stop german & trench warfare begins.

2. German army retreats from the city

Definition

marne

 

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