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| Met with Woodrow Wilson, told him that suffragists (like herself) had committed themselves to achieveing the Nineteenth Amendment, Wilson pledged his support. |
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| William Tweed, boss of New York City, was corrupt, cheated NYC out of over $100 million |
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| Educator, African American, wanted African Americans to learn trades. get a job (which would lead to political rights), seek to move up gradually in society, helped find the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, helped build trade schools for African Americans |
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| person working to destroy monopolies and trusts |
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| Suffragist with detailed plan to win suffrage state by state |
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| process by which people may vote to remove an official from office |
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| process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature |
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| way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law |
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| Why did reformers criticize the spoils system? |
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| Job seekers swarmed to Washington to demand rewards in result of political support, he was not able to support everyone with jobs |
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| What did members of the tempertance movement want to end and why? |
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| They wanted to end alcohol abuse because many people would abuse the substance and Carry Nation's husband died due to alcohol abuse |
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| What was set up to fight the prejudice against Jewish people in America? |
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| American Jews founded the Anti-Defamation League. It worked to promote understanding and fight prejudice. |
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| What was affected by the signing of the Gentlemen's Agreement? |
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| The amount of immigrants, workers, end of segregation, and anti-japanese feelings. |
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| What was Theodore Roosevelt's policy toward trusts? |
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| he disliked them and was a trustbuster, but he liked big buisness |
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| What was the difference between a good trust and a bad trust and how would the government treat them? |
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| He felt that the good trusts were efficient, fair, and should be left alone but bad trusts took advantage of workers and cheated the public by eliminating competiton. The government must either control or break up bad trusts. |
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| What African American journalist campaigned against mob violence towards African Americans? |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois urged blacks to fight discrimination |
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| Which of the following was not a government or buisness leader during the Gilded Age; Chester Arthur, Booker T. Washington, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller? |
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| Booker T. Washington was an educator while Carnegie and Rockefeller were buisness leaders and Arthur was a vice president |
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| What new opportunities did woman gain in the late 1800's? |
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| Women won voting rights in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. Their voting rights were legal for local and state elections. |
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| Mexican American mutual aid group. These groups worked like other immigrant aid societies. They pooled money to pay for insurance and legal advice, and collected money for sick and needy. |
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| Where did women first receive equal suffrage? |
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| In the west (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho) |
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| How did women get the right to vote and how long did it take them? |
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| The Nineteenth Amedment was passed. It took them all the way until 1919, 71 years. |
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| Why were the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Anti Trust Act set up? |
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| The Interstate Commerce Act was set up to forbade rebates given to rich people, and to set up the Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee railroads. The Sherman Anti Trust Act was set up to prohibit businesses from trying to limit or destroy competiton but it was actually used to limit the power of labor unions. |
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| What did the Nineteenth Amendment do? |
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| The Nineteenth Amendment allowed women to vote and was passed in 1920 |
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| What did the Eighteenth Amendment do? |
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| The Eighteenth Amendment was passed in 1919 and prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol. This Amendment was later repealed in the Twenty First Amendment |
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| What did the Seventeenth Amendment do? |
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| This Amendment required direct election of Senetors. |
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| What did the Sixteenth Amendment do? |
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| This Amendment gave Congress the power to pass an income tax. |
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| What did Teddy Roosevelt do when he did not get the Republican nomination in 1912? |
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| Roosevelt and his supporters stormed out of the convention and set up a new party, the Progressives Party. |
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| Why did Progressive Reformers support a progressive income tax? |
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| They believed that it was a fair way of taxation and that public interest must not be sacrificed to the greed of trusts and city bosses. |
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| What best describes W.E.B Du Bois? |
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| He was a brilliant scholar, African American, fighter for African American rights. |
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