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Vocabulary
Gilded Age Political Reform
Progressive Presidents
The Rights of Women
Struggles for Justice
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What is conservation?

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Protection of Natural Resources
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What is a suffragist?
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People who work for womens right to vote
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What is graduated income tax?
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A method of taxation that taxes people at
different rates depending on income
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What is a Trustbuster?
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A person working to destroy monopolies and trusts
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What is Anti-Semitism?
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Prejudice against people of the Jewish religion
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What does the Gilded Age mean?
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Coated with a thin layer of gold paint
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What was one of two things Americans feared
during this time?
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Industrialists and wealthy men Corruption and
dishonesty in the government
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What did James Garfields assassination help to
end ?
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The Spoils system
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Why did people not like Boss Tweed?
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He ended up stealing more then 100 Million from
NYC
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What was the 16th Amendment?
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Graduated Income tax
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Who became President after William McKinley was
assassinated?
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Theodore Roosevelt
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What did Theodore Roosevelt do to change the food
industry?
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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Name one of the three things that William Howard
Taft did.
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He broke up trusts, believed in graduated income,
safety rules for mines, and gave government
workers an 8 hour work day
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What did the Federal Trade Commission have the
power to do?
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It had the power to investigate companies and
order them to stop using unfair practices
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What did the Federal Reserve Act do?
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It gave the government the power to raise or
lower interest rates and control the money supply
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Name 2 of the 4 states that allowed women the
right to vote.
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Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho.
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What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
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Prohibition
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What is the 19th Amendment?
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Womens right to vote
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Name 1 out of 2 women who worked to make liquor
illegal.
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Florence Kelley and Carry Nation
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What President pledged his support for the
womens right to vote?
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Woodrow Wilson
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Who was not allowed to immigrate to America under
the Chinese Exclusion Act?
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The Chinese
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Where did African Americans face discrimination?
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In the North and the South
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Why did Catholics set up Parochial schools?
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Because they were being discriminated against
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What was the Gentlemens Agreement?
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Japan would stop any more workers coming to the
US, and the US would allow wives to join their
husbands who were already here
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What happened in Mexico in 1910 that increased
the immigration to the US?
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There was a famine