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100
What is New Orleans?
Important port city to Western expansion, acquired in Louisiana Purchase
100
What is the Homestead Act?
Federal law offering free land to encourage settlement.
100
What is urbanization?
Urban populations increasing faster than rural areas, caused by industrialization and immigration.
100
What is a monopoly?
Businesses without competition, allows business to increase prices to maximize profits
100
What is suffrage?
Primary goal of the women's rights movement during Progressive Era?
200
What is federalism?
Dividing power between the federal government and states.
200
What are reservations?
Native Americans forced to settle here after land was taken
200
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
Immigrants during the Progressive Era primarily came from
200
What is trustbusting?
Progressive presidents use federal regulatory authority to break up trusts, increasing business competition.
200
Who are the muckrakers?
Reformers who informed public and advocated for more government regulation.
300
What is the electoral college?
Created to stop voters from directly electing president
300
What is the Dawes Act?
Federal law breaking up tribal land and forcing Native Americans to accept U.S. citizenship
300
What are tenements?
Overcrowded and unsanitary buildings where immigrants lived.
300
What is laissez-faire?
Policy of not regulating business, translates to hands-off in French
300
What is the Populist Party?
Political party formed by farmers to challenge railroads and banks.
400
Who is John Marshall?
Important Chief Justice of Supreme Court, increased power of Constitution and federal government
400
What are the Carlisle Indian Schools?
Created to forcefully acculturate Native Americans
400
Who is Jane Addams?
Founded Hull House
400
What is Northern Securities v. United States (1904)?
Supreme Court allows President Roosevelt to use Sherman Anti-Trust Act to breakup railway monopoly
400
What is the Federal Reserve?
Fights inflation by regulating interest rates and controlling money supply.
500
What is the elastic clause?
Part of Constitution allowing Congress to pass any law that's "necessary and proper" to carry out powers
500
Who is Sitting Bull?
Led the Sioux to victory at Little Bighorn during the Sioux War
500
What is the Know Nothing Party?
Nativist political party, advocated for more immigration restrictions
500
What is the Pullman Strike?
National railroad strike in 1924, ends violently when federal troops arrive
500
What are direct primaries?
Allows voters to choose candidates before general election.






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