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Andrew Carnegie
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went from being poor to being the railroad supervisor. He invested a lot of money in a company that built railroad bridges.
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Samuel Gompers
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Leader of the American Federation of Labor.
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Edwin Drake
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Identify the person who in 1859 was responsible for drilling the first oil near Titusville pennsylvania
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Identify the person who along with others in 1877 organized a company which today is AT&T
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John Wanamaker
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Identify the person who opened in Philadelphia a new large department store,
This department store changed the idea of shopping because it brough together a huge array of different products |
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Identify the person whose company in 1882 started to supply electicity to its new york city customers, his company today is called GE
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Jay Gould
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Identify the person who had the worst reputation and used insider trading to manipulate stock prices
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John D. Rockefeller
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Industrial leader who Embraced the theory of laissez faire.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Identify the person who was one of the most famous and successful railroad consolidators. He first became rich in building the largest steamboat fleet in American then began construction of new yorks grand central terminal
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Vertical Integration
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company owns all of the different businesses on which it depends for its operation
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Horizontal integration
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combining many firms engaged in the same type of businesses into one large corporation
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Injunction
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Identify the term for an action which a federal court issues an order directing a union to halt a boycott or strike
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Arbitration
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a process in which an impartial third party helps workers and management reach an agreement
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holding company
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does not produce anything itself, instead it owns stock of companies that do produce goods, it controls all of the companies it owns effectively merging them into one large enterprise
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trade union
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1. unions limited to people with specific skills
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Pacific Railway Act
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Identify the law which authorized the construction of a transcontinental railroad by two different corperations
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Pool
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agreements to maintain prices at a certain level.
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stockholders
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Identify the term for people who own a corporation because they own stock and share in the profits of the company through dividends
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trust
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a. a legal concept that allows one person to manage another person’s property
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industrial union
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1. united all craft workers and common laborers in a particular industry.
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operating costs
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costs a company has to pay whether or not it is operating
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Workingman’s Party of California
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Fought Chinese immigration, won seats in CA’s legislature and made opposition to Chinese immigration a national issue.
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Gospel of Wealth
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An extended, softened version of social Darwinism made by Carnegie. It held that wealthy Americans bore the responsibility of engaging in philanthropy.
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direct primary
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all party members could vote for a candidate to run in the general election
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referendum
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Allowed proposed legislation to be submitted to the voters for approval
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17th Amendment
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Resulted in the direct election of senaters
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Susan B. Anthony
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Identify the women who along with elizabeth cady stanton organized the national woman suffrage association
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16th Amendment
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made it so the federal government could tax the income of individuals directly.
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18th Amendment
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prohibition, it was repealed by the 21st amendment.
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Black Hand
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a Serbian terrorist group who assisnated archduke ferdinand
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espionage
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identify the term to describe one involved in spying to acquire secret government information
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Red Scare
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identify the term which grew out of a fear that as labor strikes spread in the US it would provide opportunity for communist to seize power nationwide
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19th Amendment
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Gave women right to vote
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Doughboys
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A nickname for American soldiers who were largely inexperienced but were fresh and their presence boosted the morale of Allied forces.
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Sussex Pledge
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in march 1916 a french passenger ship was torpedoed. germany did not want to bring the US into the war so they promised to sink no more merchant ships without warning. this was referred to as the ________.
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Bolsheviks
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A group of communists who competed for power in Russia
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Modified Schlieffen Plan
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identify the name of the german plan whose purpose was to take france out of the war in 6 weeks
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Lenin
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identify the persn who is most responsible for takingt Russia out of WWI
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nativism
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the desire to protect the interests of old-stock Americans against those of immigrants.
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evolution
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identify the term which said that human beings had developed from lower forms of life over the course of many years
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creationism
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identify the term for those who believed that god created the world as literally described in the bible
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eugenics
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a. they emphasized that human qualities were inhereited and warned against breading the unfit
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Harlem Renaissance
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identify the term for the african american movement of artistic and itellectual activity
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Jack Dempsey
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identify the boxer who held the heavyweight title from 1921-26
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C. Red Grange
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identify the football player who played for the university of illinois
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Marcus Garvey
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identify the person who was from jamaca and called for negro nationism
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Babe Ruth
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identify the baseball player who was considered to be the greatest player of his era
Josephine Baker |
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Joséphine Baker
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is noted for being the first woman of African descent to star in a major motion picture.
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Jazz
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\ A style of music influenced by Dixieland music and ragtime.
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Margaret Bourke-White
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1. Photojournalist who had pictures, displayed in Fortune magazine, showed the ravages of drought.
Time magazine publisher Henry Luce introduced Life (and Fortune Magazine), a weekly photojournalism magazine that enjoyed instant success |
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Bill Tilden
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Tennis player who dominated world tennis.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Hoover set up this agency to make loans to banks railroads and agricultural institutions
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Great Migration
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not positive but Im pretty sure it is the term used to describe the migration of African Americans from the south onto northern citys
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Douglas MacArthur
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commander of the American forces in the philipines
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The Atlantic Charter
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Identify the name of the agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt that committed two nations to a post war world of democracy, free trade, economic advancement and freedom of seas
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Neville Chamberlain
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British prime minister most responsible for calling the Munich conference
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Fascism
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identify the political system which is a kind of aggressive nationalism in which the nation is more important than the individual
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The Glass-Steagall Act
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Separated commercial banking from investment banking . Commercial banks were no longer permitted to ris depositors’ money by using it to speculate on the stock market.
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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- the federal administration set up to distribute social security benefits to those eligible
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National Recovery Administration
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created under NIRA, it was created to make codes of competition, to stop negative business, but was declared unconstitutional in Schenk v. U.S.
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Federal Trade Commission.
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federal agency made to eliminate anti-competitive business, and promoted consumer protection
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Social Security Administration
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the federal administration set up to distribute social security benefits to those eligible
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
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The government paid farmers not to grow a certain crop such as cotton, corn, wheat, and tobacco.
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John Maynard Keynes
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identify the british economist who argued that governments should spend heavily during a recession to jump start the economy
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the payne-aldrich tariff
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cut tariffs hardly at all and actually raised them on some goods
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Underwood tariff
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o this reduced the average tariff on imported good to about 30 percent of the value of the goods or about half the tariff rate of the 1890’s
directly taxed individuals |
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Explain Wilson’s prewar foreign policy
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Wilson strongly opposed imperialism and believed that democracy was essential to a nation’s stability and prosperity, and that US should promote democracy in order to ensure a peaceful world free of revolution and war.
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Treaty of Versailles
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o Germany was stripped of its armed forces and was made to pay reparations, or war damages , in the amount of $33 billion to the Allies
o The treaty also required Germany to acknowledge guilt for the outbreak of WW1 and the devastation caused by the war |
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Causes of the U.S. entering the war
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zimmerman telegram
Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare Btwn Feb. 3rd and March 21st, German U-Boats sank 6 American merchant shits w/o warning |
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the National Origins Act of 1924
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o Made immigrant restriction a permanent policy
o Also tightened to quota system, setting quotas at 2% of each national group residing in the country in 1890 an even larger number of the quotas were allotted to immigrants from North western Europe |
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Volstead Act
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o Enforcing prohibition became the responsibility of the US treasury department
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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o Raising the average tariff rate to the highest level in American History
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National Industrial Recovery Act
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Which suspended the antitrust laws and allowed business labor and government to cooperate in setting up rules
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what events caused the cold war
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rommanis
iran crisis conflicting goals |
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5. yalta conference
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6. They agreed that Churchill and Roosevelt would recognize the government the soviets set up in Poland and Stalin agreed that the government would include members from the prewar government and would have elections
7. After reaching a compromise on Poland Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin agreed to issue the declaration of liberated Europe 8. They decided to divide Germany into four zones a. they also divided Berlin into four zones |
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Potsdam
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12. Truman took a firm stand against heavy reparations
a. He insisted that Germany’s industries needed to be allowed to recover 13. Truman suggested that the soviets take reparations from their zone 14. Stalin opposed the idea since his zone was agricultural 15. To get Stalin to agree Truman had to give him some of the industrial equipments from the other zones in exchange for food from his zone 16. Also they accepted the new polish-German border Stalin set up 17. Truman told Stalin about the atomic bomb and Stalin thought Truman was trying to scare him into taking the deal |
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Truman doctrine
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b. Its goal was to aid free people who are resisting outside pressure
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22. The Marshall plan
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23. In 1946 Secretary of state George marshal proposed the European recovery plan or the marshal plan which would give European nations American aid to rebuild their economies
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