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11th Grade
10/14/2009

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Teapot Dome
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president Harding's brought his friends to work within Washington and they leased the teapot dome oil reserves to oilmen who paid them kickbacks
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Red Scare
Definition
fear of communism in 1920's
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18th amendment
Definition
banned alcohol at national level and had negative consequences, rise in organized crime
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Prohibition
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emerged out of Progressive Movement, the eighteenth amendment would make alcohol illegal in america, eighteenth amendment repealed in 1933
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Harlem Renaissance
Definition
rebirth of African American culture in Harlem, NY, AAm authors, poets, artists, musicians, and movie stars found greater freedom of expression
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O'Keefe
Definition
representational expressionist painter
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Charles Lindbergh
Definition
hero of 1920's, flew nonstop across the Atlantic in his airplane, Spirit of St. Louis
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Henry Ford
Definition
assembly line, created mobile society by mass producing model T
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John T. Scopes
Definition
arrested and put on trial for teaching evolution in the public schools in Tennessee, found guilty but eventually it was overturned by the higher court, he had a right to freedom of speech
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Clarence Darrow
Definition
lawer for Scopes, scopes was charged with violating a Tennessee statue against teaching evolution in schools, defended freedom of speech
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Treaty of Versailles
Definition
1919, agreement ended WWI, established the League of Nations, charged Germany with blame of war and made them pay for damage, took all Germ's colonies away, created new countries out of defeated countries in Europe, sow the seeds of WWII
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Wilson's Fourteen Point
Definition
1918, suggestions made by Wilson after the war: freedom of seas, equal trade, reduction of armaments, self determination of the new nations, creations of League of Nations, end all alliances
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Woodrow Wilson
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president of US during WWI, progressive
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Life on the Home Front
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bonds were sold to finance the war, people rationed to send food to troops, victory gardens were planted to conserve store bought food
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John J. Pershing
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US army general WWI
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Battle of Argonne Forest
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last major offensive of the war
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Trench Warfare
Definition
fighting fought in trenches
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Zimmerman Letter
Definition
letter sent to Mexico by Germany asking them to attack US to keep us out of war
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Lusitania
Definition
British ocean liner sunk by Germans in 1915, we got upset and didn't enter war
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Unrestricted submarine warfare-reason US entered war
Definition
Germany was sinking all vessels in the sea that they felt were a threat
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1917-1918
Definition
years of American involvement of WWI
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assassination of ________ was the spark that started the Great War
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Archduke Ferdinand
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1914-1918
Definition
Years of WWI
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Allied Powers
Definition
Great Britain, France Russia, and eventually USA
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Central Powers
Definition
Austria-Hungary, Germany
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Causes of the war in Europe
Definition
Militarism, imperialism, nationalism, alliances
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Panama Canal
Definition
started in 1901 by Teddy Roosevelt and finished in 1914, canal was built for quicker and safer access to the east and west, changed the world's systems of transportation, communication and economics
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Open Door Policy
Definition
1899-1900, all nations would have equal trading rights in China
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Dollar Diplomacy
Definition
adopted by Pres. Howard Taft to encourage investment by American banks and businesses in Latin American and the Far East
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Theodore Roosevelt
Definition
pres. of US, built Panama Canal, fought in Spanish American war, supported expansionism, created national parks, prosecuted big business, supported passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act
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Alfred Thayer Maham
Definition
admiral and historian whose theories on the relationship of sea power and world commerce influenced foreign policy development in the 1880's and 1890's, wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Definition
senator that supported American expansionism as a way to increase national pride, spread civilization and gain world power
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Spanish American War
Definition
triggered by explosion of the USS Maine on Cuba, America defeats the Spanish and acquire Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, Cubans receive freedom from Spanish by America
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1898
Definition
Spanish American War
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Roosevelt Corollary
Definition
addition to Monroe Doctrine by TRoosevelt, stated that America had the right to interfere with any country in the Western Hemisphere
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Monroe Doctrine
Definition
1823, a statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
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Expansionism
Definition
look to foreign markets for investment, seeking control of foreign trade to bolster the domestic economy
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Imperialism
Definition
take countries over and bring civilization to them
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Shirley Chisholm
Definition
first African American woman elected to Congress and the first to run as candidate for president
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Suffrage
Definition
voting
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19th Amendment
Definition
women's sufferage
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Definition
Author of the Declaration of the Rights of Women, wanted the vote for women and organized the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention
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Susan B. Anthony
Definition
leading force in woman's suffrage movement
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Booker T. Washington
Definition
African American leader, wanted all AAm to become financially independent by learning a trade
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WEB DuBois
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African American leader, first AAm to eard Ph.D., earned it from Harvard, active in formation of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People aka NAACP
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17th Amendment
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guaranteed direct elections of senators by the voters 1913
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16th Amendment
Definition
gave Congress the power to tax income 1913
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Eugene Debs
Definition
supported unionization and labor reforms, opposed strikes and favored negotiation as a means to improve the conditions for laborers
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Robert LaFollette
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led by Progressive Party in the 1920's, favored breakup of corporate monopolies and trusts, public control of the nation's resources, farm relief, and reduced income taxes
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Third Parties
Definition
minority party seeking to voice reforms, they reflect change and often contribute new ideas to politics... any party that is not one of the two dominant parties- Rep or Dem
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Referendum
Definition
process by which voters approve bills offered by legislation through voting
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Recall
Definition
voters hold the power to remove an elected official from office before the next scheduled election
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Initiative
Definition
process by which special interest groups, thru voter participation, propose bills to their legislature for a vote
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Progressive Era
Definition
political movement of the early 1900's, purpose was to reform the government, society and economy, reaction of the Gilded Age
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Sherman Antitrust Act
Definition
1890, gov tried to control monopolies, outlawed trusts which monopolized and restrained free trade
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Big Business
Definition
trust, monopoly, and Sherman Antitrust Act
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Child Labor
Definition
children worked in factories up until the late 19th century
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Political Machines
Definition
informal organizations that controlled government, created by elected officials to stay in power
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Civil Service Reform
Definition
1883,to reduce power of political machines, congress created standards for political service, established a commission to develop a test to administer to those seeking a job in the government
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Nativism
Definition
favoring native born Americans over Immigrants
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Ellis Island
Angel Island
Definition
Ellis- NY
Angel- San Francisco
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Growth of Labor Unions
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rights of laborers were undermines as industrialization grew in America, workers unionized to protect rights as a worker, increase in pay, and shorter hours
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Carnegie
Definition
wealthy thru steel industry
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Indian Policies
Definition
am gov tried to kill them, remove them, and put on reservations
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Dawes Act
Definition
1887, dissolved Native American tribes, gave the heads of family onesixty acres to farm, tried to assimilate NatAmericans
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Bryan
Definition
politician and orator that supported ordinary ppl reforms, favored women's suffrage, income tax, and prohibition, ran for pres 3 times and lost, was a lawyer in Scopes trial, denounced evolution
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Interstate Commerce Act
Definition
1887, effort to regulate railroad monopolies
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Transcontinental Railroad
Definition
first railroad to connect EAST to WEST coasts, built by immigrants
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Reconstruction
Definition
1867-1877, rebuild the south and readmit southern states into union
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Radical Reconstruction Congress
Definition
radical republicans of north wanted harsh treatment of the south and quick incorporation of freedman into citizenship with full privileges
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15th amendment
Definition
male black men right to vote
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14th amendment
Definition
protected rights of citizens, free slaves citizen
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13th amendment
Definition
freed slaves
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Gettysburg Address
Definition
1863, Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg dedicate national cemetery
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Emancipation Proclamation date
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1863
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U. Grant
Definition
union general
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Davis
Definition
pres of Confederate south
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R. E. Lee
Definition
confed south general
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Truth
Definition
abolitionist
Term
Frederick Douglass
Definition
writer and orator, civil rights and freedom
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abolitionist movement
Definition
movement to abolish slavery
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slave trade
Definition
fourteen nineties to seventeen nineties for labor in new world
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Scott vs. Sandford
Definition
Supreme Court Case in 1857 which confirmed the status of slaves as private property
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Calhoun
Definition
states rights in early 1800s, led South Carolina to nullify the Tariff of 1828
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Nullification Crisis
Definition
congress passed high tariff to protest US interest from competition from foreign trade, angered southerners who dealt w/ foreign merchants, SCarolina declared tariff null, tariff was reduced slowly to prevent civil war
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Plantation System
Definition
ag production based on large scale land ownership and exploitation of labor and the environment
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Bessemer Steel Process
Definition
removing impurities from iron to make steel, cheap and fast, increased Indust Rev
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George Mason
Definition
writings like Virginia Declaration of Rights were models for US constitution
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Philadelphia Convention of seventeen eighty-seven
Definition
purpose was to revise Art of Confed, but instead the constitution was written
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Federalist Papers
Definition
written by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay
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Mayflower Compact
Definition
written in 1620, drafted by Pilgrims, first written form of gov and set example of majority rule
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French and Indian War
Definition
1756 to 1763, Brit vs French, created debt
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English Bill of Rights
Definition
written in 1689
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Federalism
Definition
distribution of power between federal government and states within a union
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Popular Sovereignty
Definition
concept of political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish government
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Representative Government
Definition
power is held by the people and exercised through the efforts of representatives elected by those people
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Republicanism
Definition
philosophy of limited gov with representatives elected by those people
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Individual Rights
Definition
rights in Bill of Rights that protect economic, political, and personal rights
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Unalienable Rights
Definition
fundamental rights or natural rights guaranteed to people naturally instead of by law
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Marbury vs Madison
Definition
established principle of judicial review
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