Jan 18, 2016
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•Crowded, unsafe apartment buildings that began to appear in American cities during the Industrial Revolution
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•Tenements
Question 1 - 20
• They were preferred by many factory owners because they worked cheaper, left more room for machinery, and were easier to intimidate into obedience with violence
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•Children
Question 1 - 30
• System of farming which most of the freed slaves were forced to resort to after Reconstruction• Land for farming was rented by
giving the landowner a set percentage of the harvest
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•Sharecropping
Question 1 - 40
• These were established by upper-middle class families or individuals in poor neighborhoods to help provide services such as meals, education, medical care, and job placement
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•Settlement Houses
Question 1 - 50
• In order to improve wages and working conditions, many factory workers joined these
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•Unions
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• The richest man in history, created America’s first monopoly, the Standard Oil Company
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•John D. Rockefeller
Question 2 - 20
• Andrew Carnegie’s idea that the wealthy ought to use their money and power to improve society through the funding of projects that serve the public good, such as hospitals, libraries, and universities
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•The Gospel of Wealth
Question 2 - 30
•Massive farms in the South that produced “cash crops” such as cotton, sugar, or tobacco, through the use of slave labor
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•Plantations
Question 2 - 40
• Term used to negatively describe men like Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Rockefeller; they preferred “captains of industry”
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•Robber Barons
Question 2 - 50
• Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the false image of American prosperity in the 1880s and 1890s
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•The Gilded Age
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•Group of artists who painted American landscape scenes from the 1820s to the 1850s
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•The Hudson River School
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• Artistic movement of the 1800s which included both literary and visual arts• Purpose of this style of art was to
try to provoke an emotional response, rather than appeal to logic and reason
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•Romanticism
Question 3 - 30
• Political cartoonist best known for attacking the corruption of New York City’s Tammany Hall, but who also developed the modern images of Santa Claus and Uncle Sam
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•Thomas Nast
Question 3 - 40
•The White House•The Capitol Building•Monticello (Thomas Jefferson's home)
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•Neoclassical Architecture
Question 3 - 50
•New style of building made possible by the cheap mass-production of steel and the invention of the elevator
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•Skyscrapers
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•Group first brought to America as cheap labor by the Central Pacific Railroad
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•The Chinese
Question 4 - 20
• The first thing immigrants arriving in New York City would see is this, although most of them could not read English well enough to understand Emma Lazarus’ poem inscribed on it
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•The Statue of Liberty
Question 4 - 30
•The West Coast’s equivalent to New York’s Ellis Island
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•Angel Island
Question 4 - 40
• 1798• Allowed government to arrest
and deport foreigners• Limited free speech by making
it illegal to criticize the government or its officials.
Answer 4 – 40
•Alien & Sedition Acts
Question 4 - 50
• These were led by “bosses” who did newly arriving immigrants favors (such as finding them jobs and housing) in return for the immigrants agreeing to vote the way they were told, come election day
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•Political Machines
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•Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, it did not actually free a single slave
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•Emancipation Proclamation
Question 5 - 20
• Statement of US foreign policy issued in 1823• Declared the Americas off-
limits to further European colonization
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•Monroe Doctrine
Question 5 - 30
• Issued in 1899, declared that the US would not recognize European spheres of influence in China
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•The Open Door Note
Question 5 - 40
• Issued in 1904, expanded the Monroe Doctrine to include prohibitions on European economic interference in the Americas
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•Roosevelt Corollary
Question 5 - 50
• Issued in 1793, declared that the US would not get involved in the war between France and England, despite the fact that the US was obligated by treaty to assist the French
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•Proclamation of Neutrality