Semester 1 Review

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What was a major purpose of the Progressive Movement (1900-1917)? Options: to stimulate the economy, to support government control of factory production, to encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe, to correct economic and social abuses of industrial society

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to correct economic and social abuses of industrial society

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This law was aimed at assimilating Native Americans by offering reservation land on the condition of renouncing their tribes...

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The Dawes Act

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This invention was completed in Promontory Point, Utah in 1869 and united the East and West coasts of the United States.

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The Transcontinental Railroad

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What does this political cartoon best represent?

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The Zimmerman Telegram

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In 1919, after communist revolutionaries known as Bolsheviks overthrew the czar in Russia, established the Soviet Union, and called for a worldwide revolution to destroy capitalism, people in the United States began to fear communists. This fear of international communism was called __________________.

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The Red Scare

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What was FDR’s plan to add justices to the Supreme Court called?

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Court Packing Scheme

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Political machines, such as Tammany Hall in New York City, gained power in the late nineteenth century by offering immigrants jobs and other basic necessities in exchange for votes.

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offering immigrants jobs and other basic necessities in exchange for votes

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United States’ concerns over freedoms in what colony contributed to the onset to the Spanish- American War?

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Cuba

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Congress is divided into two parts, the  _____________ and the _______________.

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Senate and House of Representatives

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the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, list of the basic rights of individuals.

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Bill of Rights