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3. The principle that each branch of government had its own responsibilities & limitations

4. What is Separation of Powers ?

5. The belief that the authority for government flows from the people to their representatives

6. What is Popular Sovereignty?

7. The idea that each branch of government exercises some control over the others

8. What is Checks & Balances?

9. The belief that power should be divided between the national & state governments to limit central power

10. What is Federalism?

11. The idea that voters hold the power, but that they elect representatives to exercise that power for them

12. What is Republicanism?

13. Monopolies, pools & trusts were formed in the late 1800s in an attempt to DECREASE this

14. What is competition?

15. Low wages & a decline in working conditions led to the formation of these

16. What are labor unions?

17. During the late 1800s & early 1900s, most US immigrants came from what 2 countries

18. Where are Italy & Ireland?

19. New factory job openings & a decrease in the need for farm workers led to an increase in this trend

20. What is Urbanization?

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

22. What were Railroads?

23. She was an organizer & the 1 st president of the National Women’s Suffrage Association

24. Who was Susan B. Anthony?

25. This was an expression used to describe a corrupt city government known for collecting graft & buying votes

26. What is a Political Machine?

27. These 2 immigrant groups faced serious discrimination & played a large role in the building of the Transcontinental Railroad

28. Who were the Chinese & the Irish?

29. This turn of the century civil rights leader helped found the NAACP

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

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

32. What is Child Labor?

33. This reformer publicized life in the tenements by taking pictures of slum life & publishing them in newspapers

34. Who was Jacob Riis?

35. This muckraker’s expose of the meat packing industry eventually led to the Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906

36. Who is Upton Sinclair?

37. This reformers work with immigrants included teaching English classes & advocating for higher wages & less child labor

38. Who is Jane Addams?

39. Her expose of the Standard Oil Trust was an attempt to destroy Rockefeller & end his business practices

40. Who is Ida Tarbell?

41. This American reformer worked to end lynchings as well as advocate for the rights of women & minorities

42. Who is Ida B. Wells?

43. This Reconstruction Era amendment defined US Citizenship & sought to ensure equal rights

44. What is the 14 th Amendment?

45. This power was given to the US government by the 16 th Amendment

46. What is the power to collect income tax?

47. This amendment made the production, distribution & consumption of alcohol illegal

48. What is the 18 th Amendment?

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

50. What is the 19 th Amendment?

51. This Progressive Era reform called for the direct election of US Senators

52. What is the 17 th Amendment?

53. These 2 major inventions of the 1800s revolutionized how we communicate over long distances

54. What were telephone & telegraph?

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

56. What is Electricity?

57. This type of legislation was designed to break up the monopolies & was led by several politicians including Teddy Roosevelt

58. What were Anti-trust laws?

59. This law was designed & advocated for by nativists in the 1880s to advance their beliefs

60. What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

61. This corrupt politician was exposed as a crook by cartoonist Thomas Nast & eventually went to prison for embezzling millions from NYC

62. Who was William “Boss” Tweed?

63. The Gilded Age

64. This man is given credit by most as the person responsible for characterizing & naming the “Gilded Age”

65. Who is Samuel Clemons (aka Mark Twain)?