Part 1 Review Sem 1 Exam

The Pendleton Act began reforming the civil service or the jobs that were completed by government employees after being signed into law in 1884.

• Great Depression/New Deal

•  The Gilded Age

• The Progressive Era

• The Rise of a World Power

Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, changed the nature of the food industry and led to the creation of the FDA in 1906

• The 1920s

• The Gilded Age

• The Progressive Era

• Great Depression/New Deal

Though this conflict was only fought for a few months in 1898, the Spanish-American War helped set the stage for the US to become a world power.

• The Rise of a World Power

• The Progressive Era

•  The 1920s

• The Gilded Age

During this era, reformers worked to end the practice of child labor and to send immigrant children into America’s public schools.

• Great Depression/New Deal

• The 1920s

• WW2

• The Progressive Era

This era is associated with exciting technological innovations such as the telephone and the light bulb, and also with industrial processes like the Bessemer Process for making steel.

•  The Gilded Age

• The 1920s

• The Progressive Era

• The Rise of a World Power

With the 19th Amendment, in 1920, American women gained the right to vote for the very first time

• Progressive Era

• World War II

• Great Depression/New Deal Era

• Gilded Age

Labor Unions increased during the Gilded Era because-

• The Zimmerman Telegram– which offered Mexico back territories it had lost to the United States, if it would go to war with the US. In essence, it was an effort by the Germans to keep America out of the war.

  
  

• Voters could compel legislators to place a bill on the ballot for approval.

•  The sinking of the USS Maine.

• Workers united for the first time to try to achieve the following: better working conditions, better wages, and to have an eight-hour workday.

 What were the PUSH factors that brought immigrants into the United States?

• oppression

•  freedom

• religious or ethnic persecution

• economic opportunities

 What were the PULL factors that brought immigrants into the United States?

• oppression

•  freedom

• religious or ethnic persecution

• economic opportunities

The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890 to curb concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition. It was the first Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies.

• The Gilded Age

• The Progressive Era

• The Rise of a World Power

• The 1920s