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49 Cards in this Set
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Helen Hunt Jackson |
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Transcontinental Railroad |
Is when the East (tracks) met with the West (tracks). Easier for transport across the country and made moving west possible. |
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Zimmerman Telegram |
A 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire for Mexico to join an alliance with Germany in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany |
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Progressivism |
Advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization
Movement that supported power of the state for Social Form |
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Jane Addams |
For women's Suffrage Created the Hull House |
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USS Maine |
Battleship - Americans blamed Spain for blowing it up and starts the tension and then leads to Congress declaring war on Spain |
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Immigration Act of 1924 |
Put limits on immigration, low % allowed in, even fewer Italians |
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Philippines |
Liberated after WWII
Was a result of the Spanish American War |
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Chinese Exclusion Act |
Was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers |
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Cornelius Vanderbilt |
3rd Richest Man Ever Boats and Railroads Endowed Vanderbilt University |
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John D. Rockefeller |
Richest Man in American History Oil Tycoon Controlled Government Cornered the Oil market by owning the production, the transportation, storage, and sales |
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Knights of Labor |
8 hour work day Equal pay for equal rights including women Eliminate Convict and Child labor laws Abolition of private banks |
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South's Low Wage Cycle |
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"Jim Crow" |
1980 - Segregation Laws enforced in the southern states |
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Paris Peace Conference |
2-3 |
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Plessy v Ferguson |
Is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal." |
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Lincoln's 10% Plan |
(1860) - Bring all of the states together as long as 10% of the voting population (white men) could devote themselves to the Union. |
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Freedman's Bureau |
1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65). |
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13th Amendment |
Abolished Slavery |
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19th Amendment |
1920 - Women's Suffrage
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14th Amendment |
(1868) Everyone born in the united States is a citizen with full rights (citizenship, due process, equal protection under the law) |
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Conservation |
T. Roosevelt's interests: 5 Nat'l Parks, Nat'l Forest and Water mngmnt 150 Federal Bird Reservations 4 Nat'l Games preserves 230 million acres under protection |
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Sheppard-Towner Act |
1921 Federally funded maternity and pediatric hospitals. First kind of govt. health care.
Disappeared after the great depression because it wasn't worth funding. |
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League of Nations |
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Interstate Commerce Act |
Established America's first regulatory agency Interstate Commerce Commission - Regulate railroad prices Sherman Anti - Trust Act or 1890 - Outlaws trusts |
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Disenfranchisement |
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Homestead Act of 1862 |
160 Acre plot if you worked it for 5 years and could prove you made the land better it was yours to own. |
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The New Woman |
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Frances Wilard |
Founder of Women's Christian Temperance Union
Break the power of the saloon, urban political bosses, gambling and brothels
Helps pass prohibition and the first drug laws against opium and cocaine |
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Imperialism |
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force |
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Civil Service Commission |
Government agency which was created to select employees of federal government on merit rather than relationships |
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Spanish-American War |
Yellow Journalism used by William Randolph & Joseph Pulitzer to publish the news of how Cuba was ruling their people. This grew tensions and lead to the Spanish-American War |
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Gilded Age |
1865-1900 Telephone and Telegraph invented by Alexander Graham Bell. Improving mail and communication Light bulb - Thomas Edison |
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Bernard Baruch - War Industries Board |
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Election of 1876 |
Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican Samuel J. Tilden, a Democrat
A compromise in the election that would land Hayes in office if he would pull back troops out of the South |
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Social Darwinism |
Survival of the fittest
People who can make it in the world, then you can do it |
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Woodrow Wilson |
Racists President that put forth 4 constitutional amendments 16th, 17th, 18th, & 19th. |
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Sharecropping |
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Scientific Racism |
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Ida B. Wells |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
Cleaned the streets of New York (literally) Youngest Sitting President Apart of Conservation Was a hunter Nobel Piece Prize Winner
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Wade-Davis Bill |
A bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South |
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Black Codes |
Law's passed in the South to restrict black people of their freedoms.
Another way to promote "Slavery" |
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Trench Warfare |
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Reconstruction |
Following the Civil War in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union |
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15th Amendment |
(1870) Right to vote (all men regardless of race and over 2 ... the only state women could vote was Wyoming) |
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Ku Klux Klan |
1866 - A secret, violent, organization built to protect whites from the uprising of Black People. |
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Alice Paul |
Daily picketing in front of the white house Chained to the white house fence - 7 months in prison |
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18th Amendment |
Prohibition
Illegal to sell or trade intoxication liquors in the U.S. |
