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Gilded Age & Progressive Era
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This Amendment allowed the U.S. Government to collect an income tax from its citizens.
19th
18th
17th
16th
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This amendment gave women the right to vote.
15th
17th
18th
19th
3
Set aside money for creation of colleges
Americanization Act
Education Land Act
Dawes Act
Morrill Act
4
Worked to create social change especially for urban poor
Progressives
Liberals
Capitalists
Constitutionalists
5
This was the primary entry point for immigrants landing on the West coast of the United States.
Manhattan
Mackinac Island
Ellis Island
Angel Island
6
Nickname given to Theodore Roosevelt because of his aggressive stance regarding big business.
Trust Buster
Anti-trust Agent
Rough Rider
Tie-Breaker
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Which of the following was part of the early immigration process?
Medical Exam
Legal investigation
All of the Above
Registration Process
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Takes a risk, often to start a new business or develop a new product is referred to as:
Capitalist
Investor
Entrepreneur
Proprietor
9
The Second Industrial Revolution saw a rise in which industry?
Shipping
All of the above
Meat Packing
Oil & Steel
10
Most people coming to the U.S. around the turn of the 20th Century were coming from:
Eastern Europe
Asia
Western Europe
Africa
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Theodore Roosevelt first got his job as President because:
His predecessor was assassinated
His parents had a great deal of influence in politics
He ran as the primary candidate for the Progressive Party
He ran as the primary candiate for the Reform Party
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Nickname given to journalists who exposed the filth and hardships of life for the urban poor.
Muckrakers
Photojournalists
Scalawags
Dirt Slingers
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This former Civil War general was convicted of war crimes after his engagements in the West.
Elliot M. Pike
William Tecumseh Sherman
Alexander Pope
George Armstrong Custer
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Assassinated in office
All of the Above
William McKinley
Abe Lincoln
James A. Garfield
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Labor uprising, employees locked out of their workplace and shot at by Pinkerton agents.
Sinclair's Meatpacking
Homestead Strike
ACL Uprising
United Mine Workers Strike
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This amendment allowed individuals to elect their own Senators to congress.
20th
17th
16th
19th
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This amendment banned the manufacturing and sale of liquor in the U.S.
17th
20th
18th
21st
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Nickname given to Business entrepreneurs seen as acquiring wealth at the expense of the poor.
Robber Barrons
Capitalists
Captains of Industry
Cheaters
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Tie Breaker? First women to vote in U.S.
Lydia Taft
Susan B. Anthony
Loretta Jones
Maud Watts
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This industrial age resource was first drilled for in Pennsylvania.
Oil
Gold
Coal
Natural Gas
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This term associated with big business in American means "lightly covered in gold".
Aged
Gilded
Amber
Golden
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This initial legislative act worked to break up trusts and monopolies.
The Sherman Anti-trust Act
Homestead Act
The Calyton Anti-trust Act
Fair Business Act
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This theory refers to a survival of the fittest especially in the business world.
Social Darwinism
Capitalism
Feudalism
Socialism
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Served two non-consecutive presidential terms
Woodrow Wilson
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Benjamin Harrison
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Legislative measure allowed people to settle unclaimed lands in the West virtually for free
Morrill Act
Dawes Act
Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Act
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21st president, served one term due to health issues.
Benjamin Harrison
Rutherford B. Hayes
Chester Arthur
James Garfield
27
Factory caught fire and trapped employees; many jumped to their death to escape the flames.
Pacific Railway Station
Triangle Shirtwaist
Sinclair Warehouse
Carnegie University
28
This legislative measure broke up Indian reservations into individually owned plots of land.
Homestead Act
Morril Act
Indian Land Act
Dawes Act
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The primary entry point for immigrants to the United States in the early 1900s.
Port McGuire
Angel Island
Port Angeles
Ellis Island
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This was the primary food source of the Western Native tribes
Beef
Oxen
Venison
Buffalo
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Created a monopoly over the Oil industry using vertical and horizontal integration techniques.
Thomas Edison
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie