1 2 3 4 5 10 20 30 40 50 Question 1 - 10 What is Progressive Income Tax?

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Question 1 - 10

• What is Progressive Income Tax?

Answer 1 – 10

• Tax on income (the money you make)

Question 1 - 20

• What is “suffrage”?

Answer 1 – 20

• Right to vote

Question 1 - 30

• What was the goal of women progressives?

Answer 1 – 30

• Right to vote

Question 1 - 40

• What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Answer 1 – 40

• The ban on Chinese immigrants

Question 1 - 50

• What is the Gentleman’s Agreement?

Answer 1 – 50

• Ban on Japanese immigrants

Question 2 - 10

• What did the Plessey vs. Ferguson court case create?

Answer 2 – 10

• “Separate but Equal” – blacks and whites have separate facilities, but equal.

Question 2 - 20

• What is “Melting Pot”?

Answer 2 – 20

• When all different cultures come to America and they are mixed together – makes people “American”.

Question 2 - 30

• What are trusts and monopolies?

Answer 2 – 30

• Get rid of competition so things can be priced higher

Question 2 - 40

• What was the goal of Progressives?

Answer 2 – 40

• They wanted to fix injustices in social (kids working in factories), economic (monopolies), and political (right to vote) areas.

Question 2 - 50

• What was the Roosevelt Corollary?

Answer 2 – 50

• US was policeman of the world

Question 3 - 10

• What was the US feeling towards war at the beginning of WWI?

Answer 3 – 10

• They wanted to be neutral – not involved.

Question 3 - 20

• What effect did the railroads have in the Great Plains?

Answer 3 – 20

• The railroads opened up the Great Plains to more people

• They could transport crops/livestock back east

Question 3 - 30

• Who were Jane Adams, Lillian Wald, and Jacob Riis?

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• They were social reformers.– Jane Adams (Hull House)– Lillian Wald (nurse)– Jacob Riis (pictures of slums)

Question 3 - 40

• What is yellow journalism?

Answer 3 – 40

• When journalists publish exaggerated stories of events in newspapers

Question 3 - 50

• Who did the US blame for the sinking of the USS Maine?

Answer 3 – 50

• The US blamed Spain because of yellow journalism reporting that they blew up the USS Maine

Question 4 - 10

• What is imperialism?

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• Bigger country taking over smaller country to form an empire

Question 4 - 20

• What were the Jim Crow laws?

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• Laws against black people – they enforced segregation

Question 4 - 30

• How did Latin America feel towards the US?

Answer 4 – 30

• Latin America did not trust the US

Question 4 - 40

• What is a muckraker?

Answer 4 – 40

• Someone who exposed wrongdoings in society

Question 4 - 50

• Dewey knocking out the Spanish fleet, Cuba and yellow journalism all occurred during which war?

Answer 4 – 50

• Spanish-American War

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• Why did countries want to make colonies?

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• New markets for trade

Question 5 - 20

• What do monopolies do to competition?

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• Monopolies eliminate competition so that prices can go high

Question 5 - 30

• Why was the Panama Canal created?

Answer 5 – 30

• It was created to make it easier to trade and could move the Navy faster and easier.

Question 5 - 40

• What was the result of the Spanish-American War?

Answer 5 – 40

• The US gained colonies – Philippines, Cuba, Guantanamo Bay, Guam, and Puerto Rico

Question 5 - 50

• What was Woodrow Wilson’s feelings about war?

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• He wanted neutrality – nothing to do with war