1. 1 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Economic Growth Making Life Easier Social Issues This is Depressing Changing our Constitution

2. 2 Monopolies, pools, and trusts were formed in the late 1800s in an attempt to decrease this

3. 3 What is competition?

4. 4 Low wages and a decline in working conditions led to the formation of these

5. 5 What were labor unions?

6. 6 During the late 1800s and early 1900s most U.S. immigrants came from here

7. 7 What was Southern and Eastern Europe?

8. 8 New factory jobs opening up and a decrease in the need for farm workers led to an increase in this trend

9. 9 What is urbanization?

10. 10 Farmers during the Populist Era complained of the rates being charged by these and wanted the US government to regulate them

11. 11 What were railroads?

12. 12 To allow voters to directly introduce bills in the state legislature

13. 13 What is a referendum

14. 14 These were two major inventions of the late 1800s that revolutionized how we communicate over long distances

15. 15 What were the telegraph and the telephone?

16. 16 Household appliances of all types were invented after this became available

17. 17 What is electricity?

18. 18 Another name for the Age of political machines, civil service reform, and large- scale immigration

19. 19 What is the Gilded Age

20. 20 In the Supreme Court case, Plessy vs. Ferguson __________, but _________ facilities were declared legal

21. 21 What is Separate, but Equal

22. 22 She was an organizer and the first president of the National Women’s Suffrage Association (on the $1 coin)

23. 23 Who was Susan B. Anthony?

24. 24 This was an expression used to describe a corrupt city government known for collecting graft and buying votes (think Boss Tweed)

25. 25 What is a political machine?

26. 26 These two immigrant groups faced serious discrimination and played large roles in building the transcontinental railroad

27. 27 Who were the Chinese and the Irish?

28. 28 This turn of the century civil rights advocate helped found the NAACP

29. 29 Who was W.E.B. DuBois?

30. 30 One Gilded Age problem that contributed to low wages and poor school attendance was the absence of any laws regulating this

31. 31 What was “child labor?”

32. 32 Gave citizens more control over government by the direct election of Senators

33. 33 What is the 17 th Amendment

34. 34 One positive aspect of urbanization was the development of ______________ which transported workers to their jobs in the cities.

35. 35 What was mass transit

36. 36 The rapid growth of American cities in the late 1800s led to the rapid growth of

37. 37 What were tenements & ethnic ghettos

38. 38 The main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to

39. 39 What is limit the immigration of Chinese to the United States

40. 40 The effectiveness of the 15 th Amendment was greatly undermined by

41. 41 Poll taxes & literacy tests

42. 42 This Reconstruction Era amendment defined US citizenship and sought to insure equal rights

43. 43 What is the 14th Amendment?

44. 44 This power was given to the U.S. government by the 16 th Amendment

45. 45 What is the power to collect income taxes?

46. 46 This Progressive Era reform called for the direct election of U.S. Senators

47. 47 What is the 17 th Amendment?

48. 48 This gave women the right to vote in national elections

49. 49 What was the 19 th Amendment?

50. 50 The 26 th Amendment gave these people the right to vote

51. 51 Who are 18 to 20 year-olds?