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What is strike?
An effective tactic for skilled workers is walking off the job until demands are met, otherwise known as the _______.
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Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This president was in the White House when the National Women's Party (NWP) picketed for women's suffrage.
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Who is Jane Addams?
She opened one of the first settlement houses in Chicago to help immigrant families assimilate to American life.
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Who is Thomas Edison?
His filament for lightbulbs extended the American work day.
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What is urbanization?
The term for people moving from rural areas into cities.
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What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Led by Samuel Gompers, this labor union restricted its membership to skilled workers to maximize its leverage in collective bargaining.
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What is the Meat Inspection Act?
The legislation that was passed by the Roosevelt Administration in direct response to Upton Sinclair's book, "The Jungle."
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Who are muckrakers?
Journalists who exposed the problems of industrialization.
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What is the Bessemer Process?
This process strengthened steel and allowed for the construction of skyscrapers and suspension bridges.
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What are tenements?
Unsanitary and unsafe housing that was common in urban slums of the Gilded Age.
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What is the Knights of Labor?
Led by Terence Powderly as a secret society and then one of the first labor unions, it allowed unified workers of all races and skill levels.
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Who is William Howard Taft?
Although Roosevelt was often referred to as the "trustbusting" president, this president actually broke up more trusts.
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What is women's suffrage?
The National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the National Women's Party (NWP) used different tactics, but they shared the same goal of ______.
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What is time zones?
The construction of the transcontinental railroad necessitated this invention involving time.
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What is oil?
The Second Industrial Revolution relied on pollution-generating fossil fuels like coal and _____ for energy.
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What is the International Workers of the World (IWW)?
The most radical of the labor unions, it had open membership and included socialists and anarchists.
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What are controlling corporations, consumer protection, and conservation?
The three C's of Theodore Roosevelt's "Square Deal."
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What are the 16th through 19th Amendments?
These four consecutive amendments created a national income tax; allowed direct election of Senators; outlawed the purchase and sale of liquor; and gave women the right to vote.
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What is Social Darwinism?
Sociologist Herbert Spencer used the phrase "survival of the fittest" in this philosophy that justified extreme wealth for some at the expense of others.
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What are immigrants, women, and/or children?
Greedy capitalists could make higher profits by hiring them at lower wages.
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Who is Eugene V. Debs?
American Railway Union (ARU) leader who ran for president as the Socialist Party candidate five times between 1900 and 1920.
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What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
One way Progressives tried to stop political corruption was by creating exams for civil service positions (positions in the government) with this act that led to President Garfield's assassination.
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Who was Booker T. Washington?
In contrast to W.E.B. DuBois, this black Progressive felt the key to African American success was vocational training.
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What is scientific management or Taylorism?
Frederick Winslow Taylor invented a method of maximizing employee output by breaking tasks into their smallest elements and timing to determine how fast it can be done.
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What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
While Plessy v. Ferguson nationalized segregation by race, the agreement ended the segregation of Japanese students in 1906.
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What is laissez faire capitalism?
Noninterference by government in free market system.
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