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| The _______ was passed in 1882. It meant that Congress banned Chinese immigration until 1943 because of widespread fear among factory workers that the Chinese were stealing jobs and driving wages down. | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| _______ was a technique used by Andrew Carnegis that involved merging the competing companies into one giant corporation. | horizontal consolidation |
| _______ is the physical spreading of cities outward, like spokes on a tire. | Urban sprawl |
| _______ is the illegal use of political influence for personal gain. | graft |
| _______ was born in Scotland and immigrated to America in 1848. He worked his way up from a factory worker, to messenger boy, to secretary, to division chief. He eventually builds the largest steel companies in the country. | Andrew Carnegie |
| A _______ is an organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city & offered services to voters and businesses in exchange for political or financial support. | political machine |
| _______ became head of the Tammany Hall political machine. He was a corrupt boss who scammed about $200 million from the New York City. | Boss Tweed |
| The _______ made former slaves U.S. citizens. | 14th Amendment |
| The _______ was passed in 1883. It was a bipartisan civil service commission was created to make appointments to federal jobs through the merit system-basis of performance on an examination. Today, 90% of all federal jobs are awarded this way. | Pendleton Act |
| _______ is giving government jobs to people who had helped a candidate get elected. | patronage |
| The _______ gave African American men the right to vote. | 15th Amendment |
| The _______ was a union created in 1869 that demanded equal pay for women, end to child labor, graduated income tax, “equal pay for equal work”, employer-employee ownership of factories and other businesses. | Knights of Labor |
| _______ helped organize unions (skilled workers). He was the president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), which used collective bargaining as a strategy. | Samuel Gompers |
| _______ is the theory derived from Charles Darwin’s idea of evolution. | social darwinism |
| _______ was a common problem for soldiers who fought in the trenches. It was a medical condition caused by prolonged exposure of the feet to damp and cold. | trenchfoot |
| The _______ encouraged companies to use mass production techniques in order to produce more goods for the war effort. | War Industries Board |
| _______ was a conservation measure created during World War 1 to conserve fuel for the war effort. It still exists today. | Daylight Savings Time |
| Times zones were developed as a result of the building of the _______. | transcontinental railroad |
| When towns competed fiercely with one another to draw trains to them, it was known as _______. | boosterism |
| Between 1870-1920, approximately 20 million _______ came to the United States. | immigrants |
| _______ posters were commissioned by the United States government and created by artists in order to promote patriotism and manufacture hate. | propaganda |
| An _______ is also known as a sin tax. | excise tax |
| During World War 1, hostility towards Germans increased. German measles even became known as _______. | liberty measles |
| The _______ were a group of 75,000 volunteer men who would deliver a World War 1 speech anytime, anyplace. | Four Minute Men |
| Immigrants arriving on the East Coast arrived at _______. | Ellis Island |
| Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood led the _______, a volunteer cavalry that helped fight in the Spanish-American War. | Rough Riders |
| The New York Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle were both owned by _______. | William Randolph Hearst |
| Immigrants arriving on the West Coast arrived at _______. | Angel Island |
| The _______ was passed in 1913 and gave Congress the power to tax incomes. | 16th Amendment |
| Woodrow Wilson's lasting legacy is that he created the _______, which controls the money in circulation around the country. | Federal Reserve Bank |
