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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?
Answer 3 – 30
• 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?
Answer 4 – 10
• Bigger country taking over smaller country to form an empire
Question 4 - 20
• What were the Jim Crow laws?
Answer 4 – 20
• 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
Question 5 - 10
• Why did countries want to make colonies?
Answer 5 – 10
• New markets for trade
Question 5 - 20
• What do monopolies do to competition?
Answer 5 – 20
• 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?
Answer 5 – 50
• He wanted neutrality – nothing to do with war