US History Midterm Review
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- Republican Progressives
- Most supported Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election
- Federal Reserve System
- Createdby Pre. Wilson as a measure to prevent bank failures
- President Roosevelt's progressive record
- Included: conservation of forest land, break up of several trusts deemed harmful to the public, regulation of food and drugs.
- Urbanization
- In the late 1800's: increased segregation and violence against African Americans, the large numbers of immigrants to the US, mechanization in agriculture
- Wood
- the least important to the growth of industry in the last half of the 1800's
- Bimetallism
- would allow for the exchange of paper currency in either silver or gold
- Thomas Edison
- Invented the electric light bulb and the central power station
- Scabs
- replacement workers who were not popular with striking workers in the 1800's
- muckrakers
- journalists who stirred up the public
- Ellis Island
- the immigration processing center in New York City (East Coast)
- Angel Island
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the immigration processing center in
San Francisco, (west coast) - Grandfather Clause
- did NOT keep African Americans in the south form voting
- President Lincoln vetoed the Reconstruction Plan porposed by Congress because
- he thought the plan was too severe
- Fifteenth (15) Amendment
- no citizen could be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous servitude