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04/15/2011

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Jane Addams
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Established the Hull House.
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Hull House
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Settlement house in Chicago.
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Jacob Riis
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Muckracker writer who wrote "How the Other Half Lives".
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Ellis Island
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European immigrants came through here to enter America. After going through the checkpoints, the immigrants would move to cities and live in segregated groups such as Chinatown and Little Italy as the scrounged for jobs.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Barred Chinese immigrants from entering American for 10 years, and prevented Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.
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Social Darwinism
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States that humans have developed through competition and natural selection with only the strongest surviving. "Survivor of the fittest."
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Gospel of Wealth
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States that wealthy Americans should take part in philanthropy.
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Philanthropy
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Principle that the wealthy should use their fortunes to create the conditions that would help people better themselves.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Utilized the Bessemer steel production method. Wrote the Gospel of Wealth.
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Robber Baron
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People who loot an industry and give nothing back.
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Pullman Strike
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Occurred because company refused to discuss workers' grievances after it laid off workers and slashed wages.
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Samuel Gompers
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The first president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
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Thomas Nast
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Political newspaper cartoonist known for creating Uncle Sam, the donkey and elephant political party symbols, and helping bring down "Boss" Tweed.
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Haymarket Riot
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Violence broke out when anarchist protestors were making speeches about shooting of advocates for an 8 hour workday. Over 100 people, including about 70 police officers, were injured.
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Homestead Srike
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Workers surrounded a steel mill in protest of the manager's rejection of a wage increase and his desire to break up the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers. It broke up after an anarchist tried to kill the manager.
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Pendleton Act
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Required that jobs be filled by competitive written examinations rather than patronage. This marked the beginning of professional service (qualification rather than political affiliation).
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Mugwump
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Republicans who supported Grover Cleveland because of unhappiness with their nominee, James G. Blaine.
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"Boss" Tweed
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Leader of Tammany Hall
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Arguments for Imperialism
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Social Darwinists argued that nations competed with each other politically, economically, and militarily, and that only the strongest would survive. Some argued that English-speaking nations had superior character, ideas, and systems of government. It was an international "Manifest Destiny" idea.
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White Man's Burden
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A poem about imperialistic beliefs and taking over other lands. The writer condemns American interference in the Philippines.
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Explosion of USS Maine
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Cause of Spanish-American War.
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Rough Riders
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A Volunteer cavalry unit from the west made up of cowboys, miners, and law officers.
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Roosevelt Corollary
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Stated that the US would intervene in Latin American affairs when necessary to maintain economic and political stability in the Western hemisphere.
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Boxer Rebellion
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A secret Chinese society and some Chinese troops besieged foreign embassies in Beijing and Tianjin.
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Open Door Policy
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All countries can trade with China.
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Platt Amendment
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Set of guidelines for Cuba. No treaties, buy or lease naval bases to US, debts kept low, US right to intervene when necessary.
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Big Stick Diplomacy
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Roosevelt insisted that displaying American power to the world would make nations think twice about fighting, and thus promote peace.
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Dollar Diplomacy
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Policy of joining business interests of a country with its diplomatic interests abroad.
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Alfred T. Mahan
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Officer in the US Navy who taught at the Naval War College, and was an advocate for a strong and powerful navy.
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Seward's Folly
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Senator proposed that US buy Alaska and annex it, but was called folly because it was not good faming land. They didn't know that it had an abundant supply of oil.
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Yellow Journalism
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Affected the Spanish-American War because it caused most Americans to support the rebels by using sensationalist reporting and attracting readers to sometimes exaggerated stories.
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Treaty of Paris, 1898
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Treaty between US and Spain that made Cuba an independent nation and allowed the US to govern Puerto Rico and Guam; US bought the Philippines from Spain for $20 million.
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Muckrakers
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Journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption.
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Progressives
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Believed that industrialization and urbanization had created many social problems and that the government should take a more active role in solving society's problems. Placed a strong faith in science and technology.
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
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The fire here made states more aware of the need for safety and fire codes in factories.
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President Wilson
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Created the Federal Reserve System.
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Federal Reserve System
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Purpose: create national supervision of the banking industry.
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15th Amendment
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Established voting rights for African American men.
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16th Amendment
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Established income tax.
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17th Amendment
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Established the direct election of Senators.
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18th Amendment
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Prohibited alcohol. Was later repealed by the 21st.
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Booker T. Washington
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Proposed that African Americans concentrate on achieving economic goals rather than political ones.
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W.E.B. DuBois
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Was concerned with protecting and exercising civil rights, especially right to vote.
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NAACP
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W.E.B. DuBois was a major contributor to the creation.
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Assembly Line
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Made production of goods easier and more efficient than previous methods.
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Mann-Elkins Act, 1910
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States that the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) could now regulate telegraph, telephone, and cable companies. Had their own judges.
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Disenfranchised
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African Americans were this because of literacy tests and poll taxes.
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Causes of WW1
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M.A.I.N.: militarism, alliances, imperialism, nativism.
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Triple Entente
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Britain, France, and Russia.
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Triple Alliance
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Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.
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Direct Cause of WW1
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Assassination of Austria-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Proposed that if Mexico allied and fought with Germany in a war against the US, Mexico would regain its lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
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Jeannette Rankin
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The first woman congressional representative. From Montana.
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Central Powers
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria.
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Allied Powers (Allies)
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France, Russia, Great Britain, Italy.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Chairman of Foreign Relations Committee; led a group of senators called "Reservationists".
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Reservationists
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Only willing to support Treaty of Versailles is certain amendments were made to the League of Nations.
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No Man's Land
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Rough barren landscape filled with artillery fire between opposing trenches.
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Big Four
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President Wilson, Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Premier Georges Clemenceau, and Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando. Met at Palace of Versailles near Paris, France.
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Espionage Act of 1917
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Made it illegal to aid the enemy, give false reports, or interfere with the war effort.
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Sedition act of 1918
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Made it illegal to speak against the war publicly.
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14th Point
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Called for League of Nations.
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Treaty of Versailles
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Ended WW1.
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Schenek v. US
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Supreme Court rejected the defense that antidraft speech was protected under the 1st Amendment, explaining that whether or not speech is protected depend son the content in which it occurs.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Italian anarchist immigrants who were accused, charged, and executed on circumstantial evidence for the robbery of a shoe factory and the murder of two of its employees.
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Palmer Raids
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Made on the foreign born by a special division of the government that became the FBI; they often ignored the civil liberties of those involved.
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