Industrialization, Immigration, & Progressive Movement

Question 1

Supplied electricity to NYC

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Thomas Edison

Question 2

Effort to protect something of value from being destroyed/used up; referred to the environment

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conservation

Question 3

Issue associated with Mother Jones

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child labor

Question 4

Limit placed on number/proportion of people allowed to enter U.S.

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quota

Question 5

Enforcement of laws that control conduct/practices

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regulation

Question 6

Chinese immigrants from 1850-1882 were mostly

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single men

Question 7

Early labor organization across industries; fights for better wages and working conditions

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trade unions

Question 8

A statement by a political party regarding its policies and beliefs

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platform

Question 9

Most city workers lived in

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crowded slums and tenements

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Small, cheap, rundown buildings with many apartments

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tenements

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Issue associated with Alice Paul that was enacted

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suffrage amendment (right to vote)

Question 12

NYC Garment workers in the "Uprising of 20,000" won

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higher wages

Question 13

Banking and finance leader; bought steel company; 1st billion dollar corporation

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J.P. Morgan

Question 14

Muckrakers

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journalists who exposed injustices and corruption

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Civil rights group founded by DuBois to help African Americans

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NAACP

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Organized, often violent, persecution of minorities; reason some immigrants left home nations

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Pogroms

Question 17

Issue associated with Robert LaFollette

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power of politics in the hands of the people

Question 18

Invented the telephone

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A.G. Bell

Question 19

Growth of cities

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urbanization

Question 20

Early 1900's political reform movement to improve American life

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Progressives

Question 21

Did the quota system deport people?

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No; limited or banned groups

Question 22

People who flee home because of war, persecution, dangers

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Refugee

Question 23

Process that new immigrants undergo to mix in with the new culture

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assimilation

Question 24

Interchangeable parts and assembly line

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mass production

Question 25

Immigrant group excluded in 1882

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Chinese

Question 26

Jewish people from Eastern Europe were escaping

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religious persecution

Question 27

Government-issued document; identification & permit to travel out of the country

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Passport

Question 28

Birth and growth of businesses that make/distribute machine-made goods

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industrialization

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The quota system of the 1920's

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all of these

Question 30

Someone who starts a business and is good at making money

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entrepreneur

Question 31

Leader in oil production

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Rockefeller

Question 32

The wages of factory workers were so low that

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everyone in the family had to work

Question 33

Theory that economies work best when the government does not interfere

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laissez-faire

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Union reps bargain with employers on behalf of workers

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collective bargaining

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Leader in railroads, shipping, banking

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Vanderbilt

Question 36

Government document that allows foreigners to enter for a limited time

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visa

Question 37

A company that controls all production and sale of a product/service

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monopoly

Question 38

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire could have had less deaths had

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factory doors that remained unlocked

Question 39

Attitude of superiority and resentment toward foreigners

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nativism

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Group of corporations that unite to reduce competition and control prices

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trusts

Question 41

Needs and interests of the common people

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populism

Question 42

Led the conservation movement to help the environment

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Both

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Investors who buy stocks

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stockholders

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Party members, not bosses, choose candidates in elections

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direct primary

Question 45

Mexican immigrants from 1910-1920 were fleeing

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violence from their revolution

Question 46

Leader in steel production

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Carnegie

Question 47

Italian "birds of passage"

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returned to Italy

Industrialization, Immigration, & Progressive Movement

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