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What is price gouging by the railroads?
The primary economic concern of Midwestern farmers in the 1880s.
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What is Angel Island?
The processing center for Asian immigration.
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What is a political machine?
Name for a system of political bosses using patronage and graft to manipulate politics and society.
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Who is Jane Addams?
Female reformer who created the first settlement house in Chicago.
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What is the Spanish-American War?
The U.S. acquired five territories in this "splendid little war."
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What is debt peonage?
The southern system of sharecropping often led to this.
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What is a tenement?
Multi-family housing in large cities that were in disrepair and housed many immigrants.
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What is the spoils system?
The system of providing political jobs for your friends and supporters.
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Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
His Progressive platform included the three C's: consumer protection, controlling corporations, and conservation.
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What is Yellow Journalism?
This sensationalized form of writing helped push America toward war in the 1890s.
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What is the Grange?
The farmer organization called "Patrons of Husbandry" was better known as this.
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What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Prevented Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. after 1882.
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Who is Boss Tweed?
A famous political boss in NYC who was imprisoned for graft when he embezzled millions during NYC construction projects.
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Who were the muckrakers?
These investigative journalists reported on the problems of industrialization and scandals in American society.
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What is the Philippines?
The U.S. paid $50 million to Spain to acquire this territory, but had to fight a protracted guerilla war with its native population.
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What is the People's Party or Populists?
This political party united farmers and industrial workers against big business.
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What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
When the Japanese agreed to slow immigration to the U.S. in return for integration of Japanese students in public schools.
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What is Tammany Hall?
Famously corrupt Democratic organization in New York City.
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What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This legislation of 1890 tried to prevent monopolies.
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Who is Jose Marti?
The poet and rebel leader of the Cuban Revolution.
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What is bimetallism?
Populist William Jennings Bryan pushed for the integration of silver into the money supply which is also known as this.
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What is the quota system?
The Immigration Act of 1924 used this type of system to slow the influx of "New Immigrants"
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What is Credit Mobilier?
Famous railroad scandal during construction of the transcontinental railroad.
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What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This legislation in the 1880s attempted to regulate the railroads.
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Alfred Mahan Thayer
One motivation for U.S. imperialism a book titled "The Influence of Sea Power upon History" written by this navy general.
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