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What was the purpose of Chinese exclution act

restricting immigration into the United States

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Which immigrant station was in New York

Ellis Island

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What was the purpose of Americanization movement?

To make immigrants assimilate to 1 dominant culture

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What product was not a result of the industrial revolution?

suspension bridges

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Which was not a factor that started WW1?

American isolationsm

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What was the primary reason to the prohibition act

8th Amendment outlawed liquor sales per the Volstead Act

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Which of these was not an actual war that had to do with the US

Russo- Japanese war

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Where did the fire that killed 146 women occur

Triangle shirt waist factory

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Which was not a result of entertainment in the industrial revolution

Literature

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Which sunken ship sparked spanish american war

USS maine

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All were results of the assembly line method of manufacturing exept

decreased productivity

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patronage

An officeholders' power to appoint people-usually those who have helped him or her get elected-to positions in government.

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Where was Franz Ferdinand killed

Bosnia

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Andrew carnige gained control of steel industry by doing all exept

cutting quality of his products

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which muckracker exposes meat industry

upton sinclair

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main purpose of american impeiralism

need of markets and need of labors, strong military

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America becime dominant world power after it takes away colonies from

spain

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Electricity

this inexpensive, convenient source of energy allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers

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muckrackers

journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of businesses and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early twentieth century.

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New steel methods

made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s

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graft

The illegal use of political influence for personal gain.

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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.

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Jim crow laws

Laws enacted by Southern State and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilites