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Chapter 2
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History
Undergraduate 2
09/28/2011

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What was 70 percent of the city traffic in 1720
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hourse cart
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What were horse carts limitations?
Definition

slow

limited pulling power

left piles of manure

 

Term
where was the cabel car first used?
Definition
san fransico
Term
What replaced the horses in cities
Definition
cabel cars and electric trolley cars
Term
______________ in new yorks tammy hall controlled 60,000 jobs
Definition
boss tweed
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____________held absolute power in kansas city controlling gambeling and liquor license
Definition
Big Tim
Term
who sought to counter poverty and other urban problems?
Definition
reformers
Term
What does ymca stand for
Definition
young men christian association
Term
what does ywca stand for
Definition
Young women christian association
Term
how did the reformer try to counter poverty and other urban problems
Definition
by focasing on moral uplift
Term
___________ formed to provide housing and recreation opportunities
Definition
YMCA AND YWCA
Term
_____________effective in providing emergency aid, housing,street kitchens
Definition
Salvation army
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_____________sought to close down gambeling,porn,prostitution, and sun liquore sells
Definition
comstock laws
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____________ sought to apply teaching of jesus to the problems of urban society.  Blame for problems did not rest witht he poor but with society
Definition
social gospel
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___________ true chanity requires church goes to fight social injustice
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washington gladden
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who was a social reformer
Definition
washington gladden
Term
____________christianity and the social crisis. churches should unite to reform the abuses of industry and fight for peace
Definition
walter rauschenbush
Term
Who was associated with the social gospel
Definition
walter rauschenbush
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Who founded the setttlesment houses
Definition
jane addams
Term
___________ offered litteracy classes craft classes job training adn a sense of dignity to urban dweller particularly immigrants
Definition
Hull House
Term
_____________ were new middle class composeed of young professionals
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progressives
Term
What did the progressives believe in
Definition
if you had an education it would help you overcome your problems
Term
Who wrote shame of the cities
Definition
Lincoln steffens
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What did shame of the cities expose?
Definition
city machines
Term
Who exposed Standard oil trust abuses
Definition
Ida Tarbell
Term
______________ frustrated workers who promised to destroy capitalism
Definition
socialists
Term
Who Led the socialists
Definition
Eugene Debs
Term
Why were the socialists rejected by most progressives
Definition
They were too extremem in their goals and methods
Term
___________ replaced mayors and city councils in some areas
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city comissions
Term
Who were hired to run small cities
Definition
city managers
Term
___________ in some states voters could then pass initativies into laws
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referendum
Term
What court case limited womens working hours
Definition
muller vs oregon
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___________ established group houses in city slums to aid poor urban residents which promoted public health reform in cities chlorinating water and tightening sanitary regulations.
Definition
Settlement houses
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Who established Settlement houses
Definition
jane adams
Term
____________ argued for self help and accomodation on the part of blacks to white society
Definition
booker t washington
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____________urged blacks to assert themselves and agitate for political and economic rights formed naacp to use legal means to end racial discrimination
Definition
W.E.B Dubois
Term
______________ attacked the male momopoly on opportunityand declared that demesticity was an ablsolute value for american women
Definition
charlotte perkins gilman
Term
________ led the movement to provide birth control to preven unwanted prgnancies.
Definition
margaret sanger
Term
What stopped the sale manufacture or transport of alcohole on the state level
Definition
blue laws
Term
What stopped the sale manufacture or transport of alcohole on the national level
Definition
18th amendment
Term
what did the anti saloon league and womens christian temperance union do
Definition
fought alcoholism on the state and national level
Term
who was running in the presidential election of 1912
Definition
taft and t.r.
Term
who was the first president to talk to congree
Definition
wilson
Term
What did the Federal Reserve system do?
Definition
acted as the banks bank and prevent runs on banks assets
Term
____________ to restrict momopolies and set up a federal trade comission to stop unfair practices which may arise
Definition
clayton anti trust act
Term
How many deaths were in the spanish american war
Definition
385
Term
What were the main deaths caused by in the spanish american waar?
Definition
disease and poison
Term
What was the cost of The Spanish American War
Definition
25,000,000
Term
What lands did the U.S. aquire as a result of the spanish american war
Definition
puerto rico, guam, phillippine islands,
Term
How much money did the guam, and phillippine islands and puerto rico cost
Definition
twenty million
Term
___________ pledged that U.S. would guarantee self rule to cubans
Definition
Teller Amendment
Term
___________ restricted cuban foreign policies and gave u.s. land for coaling or naval stations
Definition
platt amendment
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