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History
8th Grade
03/05/2009

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What is Jim Crow?
Definition
Jim crow is the name for the segregation laws in the south.
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What happens to you if you are impeached?
Definition

You go to court and get put on trial

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What does KKK stand for?
Definition
Ku Klux Klan
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Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
Definition
John Wilkes Booth
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What are carpetbaggers?
Definition
Northerners that go south to either help rebulid or just make money
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What were 2 principle goals of reconstrustion?
Definition

1) Unite the Union and Confederacy

2)Get blacks their rights

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Why did Federal troops leave the south?
Definition
Hayes told the south that hed take them out if they voted for him as president
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How did the 14th ammendment help the Chinese Immagrants?
Definition
IT said states cant take away rights of "people" not citizens
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What decision was made in Plessy v. Ferguson?
Definition
it was decided that Jim crow laws are constitutional.
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Name three major complaints that the native americans made.
Definition

1. killing their men

2. killing their buffalo

3. takign their land

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Whats a robber baron?
Definition
wealthy industrialist, ruthless about getting money
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Name twochanges brought by the mechanical reaper.
Definition

1. more crops brought in

2. big farms bought out the small farms

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What does the IWW stand for?
Definition
Industrial workers of the world
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what were the short term goals of the IWW?
Definition
better wages and better working conditions
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What was the IWW's long term goal?
Definition
overthrow capitalism have workers take over
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Why ywould someone want to join a union?
Definition
better working conditions better wages and your family can get a little money if you die
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What was mother jones background?
Definition
lived in ireland but then moved after potato famin, moved to america with her family, then they all died of yellow fever, moved to chicago and owned a dress shop, but it burned away in the fire of chicago.(was poor)
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Which group was she especialy associated with?
Definition
She was mainly for working children
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What sort of personality did she have?
Definition
she was a very outspoken, hellraiser, and cussed like a salior
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What was Jane addams' background?
Definition
she was a rich american
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What was the name of the organization jane Addams' helped?
Definition
hull house
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What group did jane addams mainly help?
Definition
She mainly helped poor immagrants
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What is a muckraker?
Definition
investigative journalist
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The organization set up to help former slaves lead independant lives was called           ?

Definition
Freedman's Bureau
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A famous fighter for womans suffrage was named             ?
Definition
Susan B. Anthony
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Someone who believes in no laws or governement is called a             ?
Definition
anarchist
Term
Someone who believes that key buisnesses should be owned by the government            ?
Definition
socialist
Term
Someone who invests his or her money in a buisness is a             ?
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capitalist
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Another name for a strike breaker is a         ?
Definition
a scab
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Any citizen could claim 160 acres for just $10 according to the                ?
Definition
homestead act
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Overcrowded, rundown apartment buildings are called          ?
Definition
tenements
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Jim Crow laws were declared legal by the supreme court in             ?
Definition
Plessy v. Ferguson
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