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What is New Orleans?
Important port city to Western expansion, acquired in Louisiana Purchase
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What is the Homestead Act?
Federal law offering free land to encourage settlement.
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What is urbanization?
Urban populations increasing faster than rural areas, caused by industrialization and immigration.
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What is a monopoly?
Businesses without competition, allows business to increase prices to maximize profits
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What is suffrage?
Primary goal of the women's rights movement during Progressive Era?
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What is federalism?
Dividing power between the federal government and states.
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What are reservations?
Native Americans forced to settle here after land was taken
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What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
Immigrants during the Progressive Era primarily came from
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What is trustbusting?
Progressive presidents use federal regulatory authority to break up trusts, increasing business competition.
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Who are the muckrakers?
Reformers who informed public and advocated for more government regulation.
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What is the electoral college?
Created to stop voters from directly electing president
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What is the Dawes Act?
Federal law breaking up tribal land and forcing Native Americans to accept U.S. citizenship
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What are tenements?
Overcrowded and unsanitary buildings where immigrants lived.
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What is laissez-faire?
Policy of not regulating business, translates to hands-off in French
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What is the Populist Party?
Political party formed by farmers to challenge railroads and banks.
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Who is John Marshall?
Important Chief Justice of Supreme Court, increased power of Constitution and federal government
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What are the Carlisle Indian Schools?
Created to forcefully acculturate Native Americans
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Who is Jane Addams?
Founded Hull House
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What is Northern Securities v. United States (1904)?
Supreme Court allows President Roosevelt to use Sherman Anti-Trust Act to breakup railway monopoly
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What is the Federal Reserve?
Fights inflation by regulating interest rates and controlling money supply.
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What is the elastic clause?
Part of Constitution allowing Congress to pass any law that's "necessary and proper" to carry out powers
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Who is Sitting Bull?
Led the Sioux to victory at Little Bighorn during the Sioux War
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What is the Know Nothing Party?
Nativist political party, advocated for more immigration restrictions
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What is the Pullman Strike?
National railroad strike in 1924, ends violently when federal troops arrive
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What are direct primaries?
Allows voters to choose candidates before general election.
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