Corruption in America
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Corruption in AmericaQuestions
- What was the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
- Who were the groups of workers represented by the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor?
- How did the film The Birth of a Nation portray the Ku Klux Klan?
- Why was President Johnson was nearly impeached?
- What big concerns did critics of business have regarding trusts?
- What was the name given to journalists who focused on the poverty and corruption in the cities?
- What did the People's Party believe would result from the government taking control of America's railroads and banks?
- How many coal miners went on strike in Pennsylvania in 1902?
- What is the main reason that the American public turned against monopolies?
- How was Theodore Roosevelt able to protect consumers from big business?
- What steps did President Theodore Roosevelt take to regulate big business?
- What was the mission of the Ku Klux Klan?
- During the Gilded Age what were the businessmen who dominated industries and amassed huge personal fortunes called?
- What law did President Andrew Johnson violate that caused him to be impeached in 1868?
- What did the White League want?
- What did Carnegie urge other rich businessmen to do?
- Why do you think the businessmen are drawn so large in cartoons?
- In which business did Andrew Carnegie create a monopoly?
- What happened to the 1916 Keating-Owen Act?
- Why was the writing of Upton Sinclair significant to American consumers?
- What was the initial goal of the KKK?