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17 Cards in this Set
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The _________________ created the first gasoline-driven motor vehicle in America in 1903.
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Duryea Brothers
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Corporations began in RR industry, in steel industry __________ struck deals with RRs, bought up rivals, purchased coal mines with partner Henry Clay Frick
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Andrew Carnegie
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____________ merged Carnegie interests to create United States Steel Corporation
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J.P. Morgan
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_______________ - survival of the fittest
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Social Darwinism
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___________________ advocated idea that w/ great wealth came great responsibility to use riches to advance social progress
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Gospel of Wealth
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______________________ sought to screen/reduce immigrants.
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Immigrant Restriction League
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Newspaper chains, especially competition btwn William Randolph Hearst + Joseph Pulitzer (rise of sensational _____________ to sell papers)
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"yellow journalism"
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__________ wrote that countries with sea power are great nations, imperialism
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Alfred Mahan
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Platt Amendment that would bar _____ from making treaties, gave US right to intervene
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Cuba
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____________ led by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
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Rough Riders
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George Dewey's victory in __________ changed Cuban war: from freeing Cuba to stripping Spain of its colonies
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Manila Bay
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Rebellion led by ____________ in Philippines, with large popular following
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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____________________ believed the US mission was to prepare Filipinos for independence
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William Howard Taft
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Open Door policy with China, ________________ arose against foreigners in China
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Boxer Rebellion
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_____________ were crusading journalists
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Muckrakers
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______ established itself as leading black organization, by W. E. B. Du Bois
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NAACP
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______ gave voters right to remove elected official thru special election
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Recall
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