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Chapter 22 The Progressive Era
Powerpoint Questions
Instructions:
Use the Creating a Republic class notes and American Nation textbook, Pages 628-654 and your class notes to answer these questions. Answer these questions in complete sentences.
1. Who wrote The Gilded Age?
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2. What did the novel, The Gilded Age poke fun at?
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3. What two political parties was the political power split between? (Slide 3)
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4. What was the spoils system?
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5. Define the term, patronage?
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6. What did President Rutherford Hayes call for?
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7. What did President James Garfield think people should get political jobs based on? (Slide 6)
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8. Do you think President Chester Arthur was concerned about the spoils system? How do you know that? (Slide 7)
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9. What did the Pendleton Act create? (Slide 8)
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10. What did the Civil Service Commission conduct? (Slide 8)
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11. What Act did President Grover Cleveland sign in 1877? (Slide 9)
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12. What did the Interstate Commerce Act forbid?
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13. What does the political cartoon on slide tell you about America? (Slide 10)
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14. Who became the President after Cleveland? (Slide 10)
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15. What did the Sherman Antitrust Act say?
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16. What was the Sherman Antitrust Act used to stop?
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17. What is a monopoly?
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18. What was the name of the famous boss that controlled all the work payoffs? (Slide 12)
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19. Define the term, corruption?
(Click on the link on the page, Slide 13)
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20. What was a muckraker?
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21. What did Ida Tarbell target?
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22. Define the term, public interest.
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23. What did Thomas Edison invent?
(Slide 15; See the link on the page)
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24. What did Garrett Morgan invent?
(Slide 15; See the link on the page)
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25. Who wanted to reform schools?
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26. What did John Dewy encourage? (Slide 16)
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27. Define the term, suffrage (Slide 16)
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28. What was the Wisconsin Idea?
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29. What is a primary (primaries)?
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30. Define the term, initiative
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31. Define the term, referendum.
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32. Define the term, recall.
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33. What is a graduated income tax?
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34. What did Congress have the right to impose under the Sixteen Amendment? (Slide 19)
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35. Who fought in Cuba in 1898?(Slide 20)
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36. What is a trust? (Slide 21)
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37. What is a trustbuster? (Slide 21)
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38. Who did Roosevelt side with?
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39. Define the term, square deal.
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40. What did the novel, The Jungle present?
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41. What did the Pure Food and Drug Administration require? (Slide 24)
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42. What is conservation? (Slide 25)
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43. What is a national park? (Slide 25)
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44. Who won the election in 1908? (Slide 26)
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45. Why was President Taft disliked? (Slide 26)
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46. What was Roosevelt’s New Freedom plan? (Slide 27)
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47. What did the Federal Reserve Act set up? (Slide 27)
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48. What power does the Federal Trade Commission have? (Slide 28)
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49. What was Susan B. Anthony’s crime? (Slide 29)
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50. Who formed the National Woman Suffrage Association? (Slide 30)
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51. Why did Susan B. Anthony oppose the Fifteenth Amendment? (Slide 30)
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52. Were women making as much money as men? (Slide 31)
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53. What was a suffragist? (Slide 32)
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54. What right did the Nineteenth Amendment guarantee? (Slide 33)
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55. What did Boston University grant? (Slide 34)
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56. What was the temperance movement? (Slide 35)
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57. What did the Eighteenth Amendment state? (Slide 36)
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58. What did Ida Wells call for? (Slide 37)
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59. What Booker T. Washington call for Black people to do? (Slide 37)
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60. What was W.E.B. Du Bois approach for Black people?
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61. What was did George Washington Carver discover?
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62. What was a barrio? (Slide 39)
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63. What was the Gentleman’s Agreement for Asians? (Slide 40)
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64. What was the name of the organization Native Americans set up to correct social injustices? (Slide 41)
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Chapter 22; The Progressive Era