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Who designed the 10 story Wainwright building?
Luis Sullivan
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Who spearheaded the movement for planned urban parks?
Fredrick Law Olmsted
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who introduced the Kodak camera?
George Eastman
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who was the founder of Tuskegee institute in 1881?
Brooker T. Washington
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who helped organize the NAACP in 1909?
W.E.B. Du Bois
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what did you have to pay before you could vote?
poll tax
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what was the grandfather clause?
if your grandfather had voted before reconstruction, you could vote.
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segregation?
separation of races
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what were the laws created to enforce segregation?
Jim Crow Laws
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Plessy VS Ferguson
- -1896
- -declared separate, but equal concept constitutional
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American leisure time consisted of....
- -sports
- -bicycling
- -amusement parks
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Who bought the New York World and introduced a large Sunday edition, comics, sports, and women's news?
Joseph Pulitzer
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Who owned the New York Morning Journal and tried to outdo Pulitzer?
William Randolph Hearst
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Who led the way to the creation of department stores?
Marshall Fields
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Who led the way to the creation of chain stores?
Frank Woolworth
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Rural free delivery (RFD)?
delivered packages to your home for free.
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The reform movement of the early 1900's concerned with problems of urbanization and industrialization was..
Progressivism
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Who became an advocate for improving the lives of women and children?
Florence Kelly
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What group feared that alcohol was undermining American morals?
Women Christian Temperates Union (WCTU)
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what were journalists who uncovered the wrongdoings on the part of politicians or corporations?
muckrackers
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Who led the way in regulating big businesses?
Robert M. La Follette
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what gave voters the power to introduce legislation?
initiative
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When citizens can force the legislature to place a recently passed law on the ballot is..
referendum
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what enables voters to remove an official from office?
recall
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what amendment gave voters the power to elect their senators directly?
17th
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4 beliefs of Progressives
- 1. Gov't should be more accountable to its citizens
- 2. gov't should control power and influence of the wealthy
- 3. gov't should be involved in improving the lives of all citizens
- 4. gov't should become more efficient and less corrupt
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
- - March 25, 1911
- - 145 garmet workers died
- - new, strict building codes were passed
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Reasons why women were denied the right to vote were...
- - it was not a woman's place
- -would increase the divorce rate
- - liquor industry did not want them to
- - factories did not want them to
- -would reopen black voting rights
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in what amendment did women gain the right to vote?
19th
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Who won the election of 1900? who was running against him?
- William Mckinley - Republican (won)
- William Jennings Bryan - Democrat (lost)
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TR's fair and equal treatment for all people was the...
Square Deal
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What were the 6 major achievements of the square deal?
- 1. increased federal power
- 2. mediated coal strike
- 3. regulate the trust
- 4. regulates transportation
- 5. protecting our health
- 6. protecting our environment
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Who won the election of 1904?
Teddy
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In 1906, who wrote a book exposing the meatpacking industry and what was it called?
Upton Sinclair; The Jungle
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Pure food and drug Act forbade the _________, __________, and ___________ of food and medical products containing harmful ingredients.
manufacturing, transportation, selling
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What was conservation?
preserving of our land
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Who was the head of the Forestry Service in 1905?
Gifford Pinchot
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Who won the election of 1908? Who ran against him?
- William Taft - Republican (won)
- William Jennings Bryan - Democrat (lost)
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Ballinger-Pinchot Affair- when secretary of Interior Richard Ballinger fired Gifford Pinchot as head of he Forestry Commission for criticizing the sale of land in ________.
Alaska
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Who won the election of 1912? Who ran against him?
- Woodrow Wilson - Democrat (won)
- William Taft - Republican (lost)
- Teddy - Republican (lost)
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