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Unit 5 study questions
Emergence of modern US
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Biology
10th Grade
10/11/2012

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16th Amendment
Definition
Gave government right to have federal income taxes
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17th Amendment
Definition
Direct election of senetors rather than a state legislature election or appointment
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18th Amendment
Definition
outlawed the sale, distribution and conspumption of alcohol
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19th Amendment
Definition
Extended suffrage to women(voting)
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What is mass production?
Definition
Producing mass quanteties of one product. INcreased interchangeble parts, urbanization
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Give three examples how the INdians were treated badly during the time period?
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Killing of Buffalo, Moved the reservations west, long walk, Little Big Horn, Massacre at Wonded Knee
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Where did the majority of immigrants arrive on Ellis Island? Angel?
Definition
Ellis- Europe Angel-Asia
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Vertical Monopoly
Definition
owning all buisnesses that produce one product (shipping, raw materials)
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Horizontal Monopoly
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Buying out all the competition (owning all gas stations)
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Dawes Act
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Breaking up reservations by granting land to individual Natives (sertain famalies)
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Yellow journalism
Definition
Bias opinion, expressed topic, convince people
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Muckrakers
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Bring up social issues
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Why were US not tolerant of the new imigrants arriving from Ellis or angel island?
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Taking their jobs
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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1882, limited Chinese immigrants
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Type of things Progressives try to change?
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Add food and drug act, make food safer
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Political philosophies behind Populism
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Defend interests of common people. Make it equal and fair. Farmers
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Political machine
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Unofficial organization that places peoples friends and family in government even if they are not qualified
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Tammany Hall
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Name of Democratic Party, whos leaders influenced city and state politics in the 19th and 20th century
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Referendum
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Provides popular vote on laws passed by legislature
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recall
Definition
allows citizens to remove elected officials from office
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Initiative
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enables citizens to draft laws and constitutional amendments and place them on a ballot for popular vote
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Laissez-faire
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Government is not involved in buisness organizations
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Free Silver movement
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Currency is not backed up by gold
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Massacre at Wounded Knee
Definition
US officer took gun away from Indian, it went off. Everyone started fighting. 25 US troopers dead, 146 indians dead
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