Gilded Age, Progressive Era, World Power Era (Remediation)

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Congressional legislation that established a commission to compel railroads to publish standard rates, and prohibited rebates and pools. It gave the government an important means to regulate big business.

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Interstate Commerce Act

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An American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. His inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world.

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Thomas Alva Edison

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Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe who formed a recognizable wave of immigration from the 1880s until 1924, in contrast to the immigrants from western Europe who had come before them.

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New Immigrants

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Which best describes the relationship between political machines and immigrants in the late 19th century?

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Political machines provided favors to immigrants in exchange for votes.

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A federal law that gave settlers 160 acres of land for about $30 if they lived on it for five years and improved it by, for instance, building a house on it. It made land accessible to hundreds of thousands of westward-moving settlers.

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Homestead Act

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During the 1902 coal strike, how did Theodore Roosevelt end the dispute between the union and coal mine owners?

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He invited both groups to work together in arbitration.

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In order to provide security for bank customers and oversight of U.S. banks, Woodrow Wilson supported the creation of the __________.

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Federal Reserve

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When did the Progressive Era take place?

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1890-1920

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During the Progressive Era, one goal of state-level political reformers was to _____?

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promote the principle of direct democracy

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The procedure by which an elected official may be removed from office by popular vote, thereby holding them more accountable to the people.

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recall