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Chief Joseph
Definition

He condemned the policy of confining Indians to reservations

-he adopted the language of freedom and equal rights before the law powerfully reinforced by the Civil War and Reconstruction

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Helen Hunt Jackson
Definition

Was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government.


-She detailed the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881).

-Her novel Ramona dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California and attracted considerable attention to her cause

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Hull House
Definition

Was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr

-opened up to European immigrants and also a summer camp

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Jane Adams
Definition

-The era's most prominent female reformer who resented the prevailing expectation that a woman's life should be governed by the "family claim"-the obilgation to devote herself to parents, husband, and children

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Jim Crow
Definition

Minstrel show character whose name became synonymous with racial segregation 

-it was rigid anti-black laws

-African americans were regulated to the status of second class citizens 

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W.E.B. Du Bois
Definition

-Scolar and activist who tried to reconcicle the contradiction btwn. what he called "American freedom for whites and the continuing subjection of Negroes" 

-Was among the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Niagra movement

-Believe that educated African Americans must use their education and training to challene inequality 

 

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Booker T. Washington
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-African american educator, author..

-Urged blacks to adjust to segregation and abandon agitation for civil and political rights 

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Zimmerman Telegram
Definition

-From the German foriegn secretary to the German minister in Mexico

-instructing him to offer to recover Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona for Mexico if it would fight the U.S. to divert attention from Germany in the event that the U.S. joined the war 

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Treaty of Versailles
Definition

-Was one of the peace treaties at the end ofWorld War I

-It established a League of Nations

-Applied the principle of self-determination to eastern Europe and redrew the map of that region 

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Fourteen Points
Definition

-Wilson's 1918 plan for peace after WW1 at the Versaille's peace conference 

-He failed to incorporate all of the points into the treaty

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League of Nations
Definition

Organization of nations to mediate disuputes and avoid war established after WW1 as part of the Treaty of Versailles

-Wilson's 14 Points speeh to Congress proposed the formation of the league, which the U.S. never joined 

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Bonus Army
Definition

was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates

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Dust Bowl
Definition

Great Plains countries where millions of tons of topsoil were blown away from parched farmland in the 1930s

-Massive migration of farm families followed

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FDR

 

Definition

-Only president to serve 8 consecutive years 

-Buillt a New Deal Coalition 

-This defined American liberalism for the 20th century

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The New Deal
Definition

FDR's campaign promise, in his speech to the Democratic National Convention of 1932, to combat the Great Depression with something new for the american people

-the phrase became a catchword for his ambitious plan of economic programs 

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Fireside chats
Definition

Were a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt 

-First media development that was direct communication of the President with citizens of the U.S.

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Brains Trust
Definition

Group of advisers assembled by FDR to recommend New deal policies during the early months of his presidency

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Bracero program
Definition

System agreed to by Mexican and American governments in 1942 under which tens of thousands of Mexicans entered the U.S. to work temporarily in agricultural jobs in the Southwest

-Lasted until 1964 and inhibited labor organization among farm workers since braceros could be deported at any time

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Executive Order 9066
Definition

United States presidential executive order signed and issued duringWorld War II by FDR, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones

-cleared the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans to internment camps

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Japanese-American Internment
Definition

Policy adopted by the Roosevelt administration in 1942 under which 110,000 persons of Japanese descent, most American citizens, were removed from the West Coast and forced to spend most of WW2 in internment camps

-Was the largest violation of American civil liberties in the 20th century 

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