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What was the purpose of Chinese exclution act
restricting immigration into the United States
Which immigrant station was in New York
Ellis Island
What was the purpose of Americanization movement?
To make immigrants assimilate to 1 dominant culture
What product was not a result of the industrial revolution?
suspension bridges
Which was not a factor that started WW1?
American isolationsm
What was the primary reason to the prohibition act
8th Amendment outlawed liquor sales per the Volstead Act
Which of these was not an actual war that had to do with the US
Russo- Japanese war
Where did the fire that killed 146 women occur
Triangle shirt waist factory
Which was not a result of entertainment in the industrial revolution
Literature
Which sunken ship sparked spanish american war
USS maine
All were results of the assembly line method of manufacturing exept
decreased productivity
patronage
An officeholders' power to appoint people-usually those who have helped him or her get elected-to positions in government.
Where was Franz Ferdinand killed
Bosnia
Andrew carnige gained control of steel industry by doing all exept
cutting quality of his products
which muckracker exposes meat industry
upton sinclair
main purpose of american impeiralism
need of markets and need of labors, strong military
America becime dominant world power after it takes away colonies from
spain
Electricity
this inexpensive, convenient source of energy allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers
muckrackers
journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of businesses and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early twentieth century.
New steel methods
made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s
graft
The illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
The jungle
-a novel by Upton Sinclair, published in 1906, that portrays the dangerous and unhealthy conditions prevelant in the meat packing industry of that time.-The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.
Jim crow laws
Laws enacted by Southern State and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilites
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