FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH P6 VOCAB EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH P6 VOCAB EXAM

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Question 1: Jim Crow Laws

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Wave of segregation laws that followed the federal courts decisions. Segregated washrooms, drinking fountains, park benches, and other facilities in all public spaces.

Question 2: Knights of Labor/Terence Powderly

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A secret society in order to avoid detection by employers. They opened membership to all workers (AA

• Women). Advocate may reforms abolishing child labor, trusts, monopolies etc.

Question 3: "old" immigrants

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Immigrants that were protestants, English speaking, with a high literacy level.

Question 4: Ghettos

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Crowded, unhealthy, and crime ridden neighborhoods serve as springboards for immigrants to achieve the American dream.

Question 5: streetcar suburbs

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Communities that grew along transit routes leading to an urban center. To escape poverty.

Question 6: Redeemers

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Democratic politicians who came in power in the southern state after Reconstruction. Won support from the business community and White Supremacists.

Question 7: Homestead Strike (Lockout), 1892

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Henry Clay Frick precipitated a strike by cutting wages. He used weapons of the lockout, private guards, and strikebreakers to defeat the walkout. Set the union movement back in the steel industry.

Question 8: poll taxes

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Used to prevent African Americans from voting through taxes.

Question 9: "new" immigrants

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Southern + eastern europe, poor, illiterate, unaccustomed to democracy. Usually roman catholic greek orthodox, or russian orthodox.

Question 10: Andrew Carnegie

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Rags to riches story. Manufactured steel in Pittsburgh and soon outdistanced his competitors by a combination of salesmanship and the latest technology. Vertical integration

Question 11: "New South ''

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The South working to create a self-sufficient economy, built on modern capitalist values, industrial growth, modernized transportation, and improved race relationships. Cities, textile industry, railroads led to the New South.

Question 12: Monopoly

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A company that dominates a market so much that it faces little or no competition from other companies.

Question 13: settlement houses

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Where many middle class women and men lived to understand the problems of immigrant families.Hoped to relieve the effects of poverty by providing social services to the neighborhood.

Question 14: grandfather clauses

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Allowed a man to vote only if his grandfather had voted in elections before Reconstruction.

Question 15: collective bargaining

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The ability of workers to negotiate as a group with an employer over wages and working conditions

Question 16: William "Boss" Tweed

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Boss of Tammany Hall, stole millions from taxpayers.

Question 17: Gustavus Swift

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A brand of packers that was able to change the eating habits of Americans with mass-produced meat and vegetable products through canning.

Question 18: laissez-faire capitalism (classical liberalism)

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The idea of rejecting government regulation of businesses.

Question 19: Haymarket Square Bombing, 1886

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Bombing of a labor union meeting, made people realize that labor unions may be dangerous.

Question 20: Eugene V. Debs

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American Railroad Union leader, helped with the Pullman Strike.

Question 21: Ida

• Wells

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Editor of the Memphis Free Speech (black newspaper). Campainghned against lynching and Jiim Crow laws.

Question 22: Adam Smith

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Economist, Argued that mercantilism was less efficient than allowing businesses to be guided by supply and demand. This would allow them to be motivated by self interest.

Question 23: Jane Addams/Hull House

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An experiment where settlement houses taught English to immigrants, and pioneered education and industrial arts.

Question 24: *Exodusters

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African Americans that left the South after the civil war and went to places like Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

Question 25: Henry Bessemer/Bessemer Process

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Key creator of the steel industry. Realized that blasting air through molten iron resulted in high quality steel.

Question 26: Sharecropping

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Farmers who paid owners of the land a share of their crops to use the land.