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| no single nation could interfere with American trade rights to China. |
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| Filipino fight for independence |
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| Emilio Aguinaldo rebelled against American's control of Philippines because he thought the Treaty of Paris included independence (it didn't). Philippine-American war lasted almost 3 years and it cost 120 times more than America paid for the islands. |
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| After-effects of Spanish-American War |
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| the Spanish agreed to almost everything that the US demanded (including 6 month cease fire) and Treaty of Paris included the US to annex/oversee Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Philippines. |
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| an American warship that was sent to bring American citizens that were fighting to protect American property home because they were in danger. It mysteriously exploded and sank in Havana Harbor. Spanish are believed to be at fault. |
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| a sensational style of writing that exaggerates the news to lure/enrage readers. |
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| Queen Liluokalani wanted the US to remove property-owning qualifications for voting. American planters organized a revolution and overthrew her. They set up a government led by Sanford B. Dole. |
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| added to Monroe Doctrine. The US claimed the right to protect it's economic interests by means of military intervention in the affairs of Western Hemisphere nations. |
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| US motives in imperialism |
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| desire for military strength, thirst for new markets, and belief in cultural superiority. |
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| policy that stronger nations extend their economic/political/military control over weaker territories. |
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| Woodrow Wilson (business reforms) |
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| Clayton Anti-trust Act: prohibited corporations from buying stocks of another company if it would create a monopoly. Federal Trade Commission: given the power to put an end to a number of unfair business practices. |
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| Bull Moose Party. called for direct election of senators, the adoption in all states of the initiative,referendum,recall. advocated woman suffrage, 8hr workday, min wage for women, federal law against child labor, and federal commission trade. |
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| The Republican Party was in shambles & Republican Progressives refused to vote so they formed a 3rd party voting for Taft. |
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| Teddy Roosevelt (health reforms) |
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| he pushed for Meat Inspection Act and Drug Inspection Act since meat and drugs were contaminated. |
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| gave all citizens right to vote (women) |
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| women's suffrage movement |
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| NAWSA; National American Women Suffrage Movement |
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| direct election of US senators |
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| vote on the bill of people (initiative) |
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| journalists that exposed weaknesses of society/businesses. (ie: book about Chicago stockyards & unsanitary conditions) |
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| Goals of Progressive Movement |
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| social welfare, morals, economy, industry, protect workers, local gov, state gov, federal gov. |
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| an organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city. it offered services to voters/businesses in exchange for political or financial support. organized like a pyramid. |
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| overcrowded & unsanitary houses that filled 2-3 families of immigrants in a 1 family house. |
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| cofounded Hull House (a settlement house in Chicago) |
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| community centers in slum neighborhoods that provided help (especially immigrants) |
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| illegal use of political influence for personal gain. |
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| an officeholder's power to appoint people- usually people that helped him/her get elected -positions in government. |
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| a mixture of people from different culture/races who blend together by abandoning their native languages/cultures. |
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| a law that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, government officials from entering the US. |
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| agreement by the gov of Japan to limit emigration to the US. |
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| education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture. |
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| favoring the interests of native-born over foreign-born people. |
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| Asians (primarily Chinese) gained admission through here in San Francisco Bay. |
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| In New York Harbor. Mostly European Immigrants. About 20% of immigrants were detained for a day/more before inspection. Only 2% were denied entry. |
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| a corporation that did nothing but buy out the stocks of other companies |
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| an economic/social philosophy based on Charles Darsin's theory of evolution by natural selection- holding that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure survival of the fittest. |
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| craft unionism: skilled workers from one or more trades. industrial unionism: American Railway Union, skilled engineers and firemen. |
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| negotiation between representatives of labor & management to reach written agreements on wages/hours/working conditions. |
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| workers for Baltimore/Ohio Railroad. when worked stopped here, it spread to other lines. over 50,000 miles of railroad were stopped for a week. Federal troops came and ended it. |
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| Chicago's Haymarket Square protested police brutality. a random bomb was thrown into policeline & police fired, killing many. |
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| Carnegie Steel company plant in PA. |
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| strikebreakers were hired & strike turned violent. federal troops sent in. |
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| an economic/political system based on gov control of business/property/equal distribution of wealth. |
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| a process Carnegie used to buy out his suppliers to control the raw materials/transportation systems. |
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| companies that produce similar products & merge. |
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| born into a poor family. worked his way up- private investigator for Penn Railroad. then worked for British steel company. One of the first industrial moguls to make his fortune. |
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| complete control over it's industry's production, wages, and prices. |
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| Bimetallism vs Gold Standard |
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| bimetallism is a monetary system in which the gov would give citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or checks. gold-standard backed society with dollars solely with gold. |
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| the movement of the people. it demanded reforms to lift the burden of debt from farmers/other workers and to give the people a greater voice in their gov |
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| the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River |
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| offered 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen that was head of the household. |
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| Republican leaders agreed to withdrawal of the troops in Louisana/South Carolina, democrats wanted federal $ to build a railroad from Texas to West coast, and to improve Southern rivers/harbors.brides, to appoint a conservative Southerner to cabinet. |
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| Hayes(republican) vs Tilden(democrat). First time in US history that a candidate that lost the popular election lost. Hayes won. |
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| Voting Restrictions for Blacks |
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| the discriminatory laws passed throughout the post-Civil War South which severely restricted African American's lives, prohibiting activities like traveling without permits, carrying weapons, serving on juries, testifying against whites & marrying whites. |
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| Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. The judge was John Howard Ferguson who had previously declared the Separate Car Act "unconstitutional on trains that traveled through several states" true. The Plessy decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." The "separate but equal" doctrine was quickly extended to cover many areas of public life, such as restaurants, theaters, restrooms, and public schools |
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| Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms and restaurants for whites and blacks. |
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| a social club for Confederate veterans. the group turned into violent terrorism. its method was to prevent African Americans from excercising their political rights |
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| a state's power of governing its citizens without federal gov involvement. |
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| landowners divide their land and gave ach worker a few acres along with seeds and tools. at harvest time, the worker would give a share of his crop (half usually) to the landower. |
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| a Northerner who moved to the South after the civil war |
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| he wasn't carrying out his constitutional obligation of enforcing the Reconstruction Act. he was charged for 11 cases of impeachment. |
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| white Southerners who joined the Reoublican party |
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| Southern Democrats regrouped into various vigilante organizations such as the KKK. |
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| prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race color or previous condition of servitude |
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| The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. |
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| assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing and food. It set up more than 49 hospitals, approx 4000 schools, 61 industrial instittudes and 74 teacher training centers |
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| Some members of the Republican Party were not only in favour the abolition of slavery but believed that freed slaves should have complete equality with white citizens. |
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| he succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president. won several important offices ilke congressman governor and US senator. he was the only senator from a confederate state to support the Union. supported abolition & hated wealthy Southern planters. |
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| he was born to illiterate parents & he educated himself. worked as a rail-splitter, storekeeper, surveyor. he taught himself law. |
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| the period during which the US began to rebuild after the civil war (1865-1877). process of readmitting the Confederate states. |
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| a Virginia village where Lee and Grant met and ended the Civil War |
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| a commander of the military division of the Mississippi who Grant turned to for help |
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no target is off limits to a military force, this includes civilians and their property.
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| in Mississippi. it was one of the only two Confederate holdouts preventing the Union from taking complete control of the Mississippi River. eventually the city fell and it cut the Confederacy in two. |
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| it was the most decisive battle. it was an unlikely spot for a battle & nobody planned to fight there. it was a three day battle where 23000 union men and 28000 confederates where either killed or hurt. |
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| a famous speech by Lincoln in 1863 for the dedication of the battle of Gettsyburg |
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| a northern democrat who advocated making peace with the confederacy during the civil war |
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| a court order that requires authorities to bring a person in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| an executive order issued by Lincoln freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines |
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| a sluggish creek where it was the bloodiest single day in battle in American history (september 17) |
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| aka General Thomas J Jackson. confederate general |
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| elected as president after Lincoln. former senator.confederate. |
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| he failed at every job besides being a military commander. |
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| general that lead union army |
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| little creek near Union capital. first major bloodshede after fort sumter fell |
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| a three part strategy by which the union proposed to defeat the confederacy |
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| an island in south carolina. attacked the day after lincoln became president. the confederacy was demanding him to surrender or face attack. |
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ADV: stronger army, more money
DIS: not homefield |
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ADV: homefield
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| south: to declare themselves independent. north: maintain the union & abolish slavery. |
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| southern states that broke apart to keep slavery & not be apart of Union |
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| the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union |
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| a system of routes that helped slaves get to Canada or safe areas in free states |
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| she was born a slave then she helped people escape on the underground railroad |
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| an abolitionist. he lived in a black community and he was hanged for treason because he started raids on proslavery settlers. |
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| she was an abolitionist that published Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
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| he was a judge then was in the House for two terms. then he was elected to senate. but never got to president. |
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| dred scott lived in a free state then moved back to slave state then when his owner died he called himself a free man & the supreme court said he couldn't ever be a citizen and didn't even have a right to be in court |
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| people that ran for kansas to become either a free or slave state and became a violent battle in the civil war. |
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| nebraska is in the north & kansas gets to choose. |
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| series of congressional measures that meant to settle disagreements between free and slave states. |
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| the right residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery appealed to both north and south |
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| California as well as the territories of Utah and New Mexico would be closed to slavery forever. |
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| the treaty signed by Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande to border Texas and ceded New mexico and Cali to the US. |
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| the new lonestar republic that set up an army and navy that proudly flew a silk flag with a golden star |
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| an abandoned mission and fort that was invaded |
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| the river that seperates texas and mexico |
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| established the current borders of the lower 48 states. |
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| the prospectors who flocked to Cali in 1849 for the gold rush |
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| texas becoming a state blah blah |
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| started in Missouri and ended in portland oregon |
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| referred to 54'40 lattitude the northern limit of the disputed oregon territory |
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| timed her marriage so she could accompany her husband to London for the World's Anti-Slavery Convention where her husband was a delegate. |
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| he was born into slavery and wrote the Liberator. |
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| born into slavery he was a gifted preacher that was hanged |
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| a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation |
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| the placing of interests of one's own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole |
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| a state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional |
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| the practice of winning candidate's rewarding their supporters with government jobs |
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| won the popular vote of 1824. democratic-republican party was formed for him. |
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