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Chapter 20 Sections 1-4 Review

Economic

Question: A period of extremely low economic activity.
Answer: Depression

Question: Business that gains control of an industry by putting competitors out of business.
Answer: Monopoly

Question: A economic system in which the state controlled the economy.
Answer: Socialism

Question: A business owned by investors who buy part of it through shares of stock.
Answer: Corporation

Question: A legal body created to hold stock in many companies often in the same industry.
Answer: Trust

Industrial Age

Question: Inventor of the telephone
Answer: Alexander Grahm Bell

Question: Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the era of new inventions and wealth for few the _____.
Answer: Gilded Age

Question: Government documents giving an inventor the exclusive right to make and sell an invention for a specific number of years.
Answer: Patent

Question: Name used in the 1800's to describe a business leader who used dishonest methods to grow rich.
Answer: Robber baron

Question: African American inventor who played a key role in improving practicle lighting.
Answer: Lewis Latimer

Immigration and Modern Urban Growth

Question: Some Americans have described the U.S. as a ________, or a place where cultures blend.
Answer: Melting Pot

Question: Most Asian immigrants to the United States arrived here.
Answer: Angel Island

Question: This was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Star to give immigrants with an education, child care, and health care. .
Answer: Hull House

Question: This illegal gang gained control of government in New York City.
Answer: Tammany Hall

Question: Many African Americans and Mexicans were forced into ______ where people were foced to work for free until they had paid off their debt.
Answer: Peonage

Discrimination

Question: Laws meant to enforce segregation of white and black people in pubilc places
Answer: Jim Crow

Question: He founded the Tuskegee Institute and Atlanta plan, he also encouraged African Americans to work hard to prove themselves to the whites and not speak out.
Answer: Booker T. Washington

Question: In ________ the Supreme court ruled the "seperate but equal" did not violate the 14th Amendment.
Answer: Plessy v Ferguson

Question: Founded by W.E.B. DuBois, Jane Addams, and other reformers in 1909, the ________ played a major role in ending segregation.
Answer: NAACP

Question: After three of her friends were lynched ____ mounted an anti lynching campaign in her newspaper.
Answer: Ida B Wells

Labor Movement

Question: People who believe in the abolition of all government are called?
Answer: anarchists

Question: A union that allowed women and eventually African Americans to join was called....
Answer: Knights of Labor

Question: Ther person who helped found the AFL and severed as its president for 37 years was......
Answer: Samuel Gompers

Question: When Andrew Carnegie cut wages at his steel mills the union organized the _______ strike.
Answer: Homestead

Question: What strike caused rail traffic in much of the country to stop?
Answer: Pullman Strike