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29 Cards in this Set
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company
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Fire broke out 30 minutes before closing time. Doors were locked to prevent workers from leaving early. 147 lost their lives. Stemmed the idea of mandatory insurance
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Zimmermann Telegram
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British cryptographers intercepted a secret message from arthur Zimmermann [German foreign minister] to the German ambassador in Mexico proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event that Germanywent to wasr with the U.S. Germany promiced to help Mexico recover the territory they had lost in the 1840's. Britain showed this to the U.S. in the hopes of drawing them into the war.
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Red Scare
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Extreme fear of communism and radicalism after WWI triggered by bombings and labor strikes. Every threat to National security fed the public's anxiety. Those who showed even the slightest bit of anti patriotism were shot while others cheered.
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Black Sox Scandal
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1920 - Five members of the Chicago White Sox admittted to throwing the world series. The players were banned from the sport.
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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"Seperate but Equal."
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Coal Miner's Strike 1902
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Showed that the government could not be counted on to immediatly come to aid. Roosevelt showed willingness to compromise with employees.
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Election of 1912
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Woodrow Wilson did not recieve a majority of the popular vote, but the split in the republican party gave him the majority of votes in the electoral college.
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Lusitania
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British owned ship. Ignored German orders to Americans not to travel on allied ships. The ship was trapped by a german submarine and sank it in 18 minutes, killing over 1000 people. The public was shocked and outraged
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Sussex Pledge
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Germans attacked an unarmed French passenger ship killing more than 80 Americans. Wilson got pissed and told Germany that if they didn't stop attacking Merchant and passenger ships without warning that Wilson would sever their alliance [U.S. and Germany]. Not wanting to lose the U.S.'s nuetrality Germany agreed to the so-called Sussex Pledge saying that they wouldn't sink nuetral ships.
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Great Migration
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After the Civil war African Americans from the south came to the north looking for jobs. During WWI these numbers increased dramatically. Many found jobs in northern factories and packing houses
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Armistice
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Proposed by Germany. [peace treaty] Wilson said he would only negotiate with a democratic regime in Germany. After a brief revolution the Kaiser was overthrown and a civilian regime gained control of the government. The new government continued with the Armistice and the fighting ended.
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Postwar Race Relations [WWI]
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North - tensions rise due to competition for jobs and housing. South - Whites feel threatened by returning African Americans veterans. African Americans are burned/lynched at the stake, race riots break out, America becomes known for racial injustices. |
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Treaty of Versailles
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Ended WWI. Imposed harsh settlement on Germany, sticking them with immense reperations. Germany also lost land to France, Poland, and Czechoclovakia, had to accept blame for the war, and had to dismantle it's war machine and agree not to reassemble it in the future. Wilson disliked the treaty but signed in order to procure his league of nations
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Scopes Monkey Trial
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1925 Tennesse legislature passed a bill that prohibited the teaching of evolutionary science. Immediatly afterward a young science teacher [John Scopes] taught biology from an evolutionary standpoint. Scopes was put on trial, found guilty, and fined for $100. Trial represented the opposition in America and what little tolerance secular and fundementalist groups had for each other.
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Sacco and Vanzettive
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Two unidentified gunmen robbed and killed someone. Two Italian immigrants [Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti] were arrested and charged with the crime. Though the state failed to prove the case, the two men were sentenced to death and executed. Created a storm of protest from Italian Americans, liberals, and civil rights advocats. Personified the hostile feelings towards immigrants at the time.
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Harlem Renaissance
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Movement for African American pride. First self-concious literary and artistic movement in African American history
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Secretary of the interior [Albert B. Fall] was convicted of accepting $360,000 in bribes in exchange for leasing drilling rights on federal naval oil reserves
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Black Tuesday
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Day after the stock market experienced one of the greatest crashes in history. Mad rush of stocks began selling. Stocks sold for whatever price they would bring.
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Great Depression
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Global phenomenon, dragged on with no end in sight [different from past economic problems] Military dictatorship erupted in Argentina and much of Central America, Facism and militarism erupt in Germany, Italy, and Japan, totalitarianist communism erupts in the Soviet Union, and Welfare capitalism erupts in Canada, Great Britain, and France
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Dustbowl
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Top soil blew away. Produced "unparralleled human tragedy." Overgrazing cattle severely, gas-powered tractors helped ccause it. Farmers were evicted from their homes, whole counties were depopulates, helped lead to the great depression.
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Japan and Asia
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Japan, desperate to establish political and cultural hegemony in Asia invaded Manchuria "reducing the Chinese province to a puppet state." Hoover rejected military intervention and refused to impose economic sanctions against Japan.
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American Responce to Hitler
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Responded with caution. [Reflected the strength of their isolationist statement.] Formally recognised the soviet Union which provoked anger.
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September 1, 1939
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German forces poured across Polish borders while bombers and fighters attacked Polish railroads from the air. New military strategy - blitzkreig
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"Arsenal of Democracy"
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Roosevelt responded to the war in Europe with nuetrality. Feared German victtory woulf threaten America's future security - resolved to save England at all costs [sent them military equitment and aid]
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Double V Campaign
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Dual struggle of African Americans against facism and discrimination. Helped the country at war and pressed for equal rights back home.
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Zoot Suit Riot
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Mexican American youth gangs celebrated their ethnicity by wearing flamboyant "zoot suits" - white sailors attacked the "zooters", military police ordered sailors back to their ships ending the riots
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Internment of Japanese Americans
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barred from migrating tto the U.S. by the immigration act of 1924. Roosevelt authorized the department of war to designate areas and exclude people from them.
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Social Gospel movement
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Produced by confrontation between church and city. Clergymen saw that people needed to be physically healed before their souls could be saved. Began teaching the application of commonnnn christianity to social conditions.
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Settlement House Movement
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Led by Jane Adams. young college age women moved to slum neighborhoods to help out. Performed humble neighborhood tasks, made them feel useful.
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