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progressive movement

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aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in american life

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muckraker

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journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt

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suffrage

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the right to vote

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Susan b Anthony

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women's rights activist

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Theodore Roosevelt

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26th President who supported civil rights

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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization

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Gifford pinchot

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first Chief of the United States Forest Service

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Woodrow wilson

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28th President (new jersey governor)

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Clayton antitrust act

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Prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another

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Federal reserve system

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central banking system , nations bankimg system, woodrow success

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Queen liliuokalani

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Hawaii queen

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Imperialism

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policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

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Jose marti

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Cuban poet and revolutionary who fought for Cuban independence from Spain

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Yellow journalism

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journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration

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U. S. S. maine

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Blew up in harbor of Havana (killed more than 260 men) (innocent)

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Protectorate

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Country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power

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Open door notes

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Letters addressed to leaders of imperialist nations proposing that nations share their trading rights with the United States

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Boxer rebellion

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Uprising that attempted to drive all foreigners from China

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Panama canal

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Connects alantic and Pacific Ocean

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Roosevelt corollary

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addition to the Monroe Doctrine

(US would now use force to protect its economic interests in Latin America)

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Nationalism

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patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts

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Trench warfare

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type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other

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Zimmerman note

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proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. In the event that the United States entered World War I against Germany, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona and New Mexico

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Selective service act

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Draft

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General John J. Pershing

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"Black Jack" was a senior usa Army officer, American expeditionary forces

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Armistice

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agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce

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Espionage and sedition acts

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Person could be fined up $10,000, 20 years in jail for interfering with war effort or saying anything disloyal profane or abusive about government

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Great migration

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Movement of 6 million African Americans to North

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14 points

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agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.

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Treaty of Versailles

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was a document signed between Germany and the Allied Powers following World War I that officially ended that war.

Embarrassed and humiliated Germany basically caused ww2

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Communism

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society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs

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Succo and Vanzetti

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Convicted of robbery and 2 murders in Massachusetts and sentenced to death

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Calvin Coolidge

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30th president. Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor.

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John L Lewis

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American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America

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Warren G. Harding

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29th president

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Fordney mccumber tariff

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tariffs on many imported goods to protect factories and farms

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Isolationism

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policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups

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Quota system

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have demographics represented at all levels and aspects of the civilization according to national statistics

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Teapot dome scandal

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Albert fall who Illegaly manage to get all the oil reserves transferred from navy to the interior department then he made money by selling it

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Installment plan

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Enable people to buy goods over an extended period

without having to put down much money at the time of purchase

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Bootlegger

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People who would illegally transfer alcohol from different countries and sell it to people in the United States in their boots

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Fundamentalism

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Religion that is upheld in a very strict and literal way

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Flapper

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fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

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Double standard

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Set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than woman

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Charles a Lindbergh

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American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist

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George Gershwin

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American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age

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Zora neale Hurston

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influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, who portrayed racial struggles in the early 20th century American South

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Harlem Renaissance

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Intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York

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Paul Robeson

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American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism.

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Credit

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Buy now pay later

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Speculation

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They bought stocks and bonds on the chance of a quick profit while ignoring the risks

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Buying on margin

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Paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest

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Black Tuesday

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October 29th when the bottom fell out of the market and the nation's confidence

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Dow Jones industrial average

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Most widely used barometre of stock market's health

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Great depression

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Period from 1929 to 1940 in which economy plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed

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Dust bowl

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Region hardest hit by dust storms in when storms including Kansas Oklahoma Texas New Mexico and Colorado

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Direct relief

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Cash payments or food provided by the government to the poor

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Herbert hoover

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1828 president tried to reassure Americans nations econmy was sound footing Basically ruined everything

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Bonus army

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Veterans who wanted their pay checks now so they could get out of the depression but were refused to

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Democrat, Supported minorities in was highly supported because he helped us get out of the depression and helped heal the United States

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New deal

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Relief for needy economic recovery financial reform

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Eleanor roosevelt

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1st lady Social reform equal rights for women and minorities

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Works progress administration WPA

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Headed by Harry Hopkins program to help youth creates jobs

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Social security act

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Provided money and help to old age retirees unemployment people and disability people

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Mary mcleod bethune

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Educator who dedicated herself to promoting opportunities for young African Americans

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Congress of industrial organizations CIO

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Helped employ unskilled and semi skilled workers

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Orson Welles

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Actor director producer writer The War of the Worlds

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Richard Wright

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African American author completed "native son" about a young man trying to survive in a racist world

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Tennessee Valley authority TVA

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Federal corporation to construct dams and power plants