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Social Studies
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15
History
8th Grade
06/12/2011

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William Jennings Bryan
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American politician under Woodrow Wilson, Supported Spanish American War
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W.E.B. Dubois
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Social rights activist. OK with segregation "separate but equal"
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Haymarket Affair
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A riot, started as a rally in support of striking workers
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16th amendment
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Allows congress to levy income tax
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Tuskagee Institute
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Private historically black institute in Alabama
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Grover Cleveland
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22nd and 24th president, the only pres to serve 2 non-consecutive terms
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Tammany Hall
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New York Political Org., Political Machines, helped imigrants, notably Irish (William M Tweed)
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Joseph Pulitzer
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Yellow Journalism, sensationalism - for sales
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Square Deal
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Theodore Roosevelt - conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, consumer protection
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Palmer Raids
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Attempts by the US Dept of Justice to deport radical leftists, anarchists
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Populist Party
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short lived party established 1891, anti-establishment, (endorsed William Jennings Bryan) cotton farmers in the south
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17th amendment
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Elect representative by popular vote
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Franklin D Roosevelt
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FDR 32nd president, only pres elected more than 3 terms, WWII, the great depression, new deal
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Teddy Roosevelt, 26th president, founder of short lived, progressive "Bull Moose Party"
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Herbert Hoover
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31st president, efficiency movement, waste in government
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