Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

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Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
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Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
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5th Grade Monopolies
5th Grade Labor Unions
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4th Grade Robber Barons
4th Grade Trusts
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3rd Grade Cutthroat competition
3rd Grade Great Plains
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2nd Grade Nativists
2nd Grade Voting Rights
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1st Grade Reconstruction
1st Grade Amendments
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5th Grade Monopolies Question

• Monopolies controlled the majority of an industry
  therefore they limited this

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5th Grade Monopolies Answer

• competition

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5th Grade labor unions Question

• How was the labor Movement affected by the
  violence of strikes such as the Haymarket Riot
  and Pullman strike?

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5th Grade labor unions Answer

• The American public saw the labor movement as
  violent and unions got a bad reputation

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4th Grade Robber Barons Question

• How did Industrial growth affect the distribution
  of wealth in America?

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4th Grade Robber Barons Answer

• It led to the concentration of wealth in the
  hands of a few captains of industry while the
  factory workers remained poor.

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4th Grade Trusts Question

• According to their critics, how did Trusts hurt
  the free enterprise system?

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4th Grade Trusts Answer

• They made it difficult for new companies to
  compete.

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3rd Grade Cutthroat competition Question

• Why did RR companies use unfair business
  practices such as pools and rebates?

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3rd Grade Cutthroat competition Answer

• RR companies made larger profits

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3rd Grade Great Plains Question

• Name 3 reasons why people settled in the Great
  Plains

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3rd Grade Great Plains Answer

• Mining
• Ranching
• Farming
• RR building
• Store owners

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2nd Grade Nativists Question

• What was the objective of the quota system?

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2nd Grade Nativists Answer

• Reduce the number of immigrants from certain
  nations.

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2nd Grade Voting Rights Question

• Beginning in the late 1800s, poll taxes,
  literacy tests and the KKK were used to

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2nd Grade Voting Rights Answer

• Prevent African Americans from voting and having
  a say in Southern government.

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1st Grade Reconstruction Question

• The Reconstruction Amendments (13,14,15) failed
  because?

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1st Grade Reconstruction Answer

• Southern Democrats quickly gained control over
  Southern government and refused to support the
  Amendments (poll tax, literacy test, KKK)

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1st Grade Amendments Question

• What Amendment was denied in the Plessy v.
  Ferguson case?

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1st Grade Amendments Answer

• 14th Amendment equal citizenship rights

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Million Dollar QuestionCorporations
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1,000,000 Question

• Why do Business sell stock?
• (three reasons!)

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1,000,000 Answer

• To get capital in order to
• 1. hire workers
• 2. buy materials to make the product
• 3. build factories/ buy machines

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