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47 Cards in this Set
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John Muir
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Scottish Immigrant
Grew up in Wisconsin Contributed to the establishment of Yosemite National Park in 1890 and two years later the Sierra Club |
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Carlisle Indian School
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Founded in 1879 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania by Captain Richard Henry Pratt
It was an attempt to assimilate Native American children into the majority culture of the United States |
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The Dawes Severalty Act
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passed in 1887
aimed to reform native americans by forcing them to be farmers and landowners broke up reservations and treated the Native Americans as individuals gave the Native Americans land and held it for 25 years |
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Ghost Dance
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A ritual the was promised by Wavoka would return the Sioux to dominance
The Native Americans would wear sacred Ghost shirts and dance in a circle Local authorities didn't like the dance and ordered Chief Sitting Bull be arrested. In the process of arresting him the chief was shot and killed |
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Wounded Knee
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Two weeks after Chief Sitting Bull was shot and killed
The seventh calvary was rounding up the starving Sioux, one indian shot a gun, and the calvary used an automatic cannon and killed 300 Sioux The corpses were buried in mass graves |
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Andrew Carnegie
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Born in Scotland, emigrated to America in in 1848
in 1849, became a Westen nion messenger boy and soon became Pittsburgh's fastest telegrapher. He quickly moved up the the Pennsylvania Railroad company in 1870s, he decided to build his own steel mill using new processes Used vertical integration, controlling all aspects of manufacturing, and by 1900 employed 20,000 and was the worlds largerst industrial corporation |
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Thomas Edison
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Self educated and very motivated
established an invention factory, which moved to Menlo Park in 1876, he predicted "a minor invention every ten days, and a big one every six months." Perfected the incandescent lamp in 1879 |
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Eugene V. Debs
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Leader of the American Railway Union
Was put in jail for striking and a legalized use of injunctions against labor unions was put into play because of him(In re Debs, 1895) |
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Standard Oil Trust
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Started by Rockefeller in 1870
A verbal agreement amoung companies that lacked legal status, and created and umbrella coportation that ran them all This was Rockefeller was able to control the petroleum industry vertically and horizontally |
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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ten-year suspension on Chinese immigration
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Jane Addams
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developed the settlement house
she purchased a dilapitaed mansion in Chicago in 1889, opened it as Hull House started all sorts of things for impoverished people such as kindergarten, a laundry, and employment bureau, and a nursery |
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Thomas Nast
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was a famous German-American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist
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Frederick Law Olmsted
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was an American landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City.
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Anthony Comstock
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founded the Ney York Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1872
demanded that municipal athurities close down gambling and lottery operations and censor obscene publications |
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Cult of Domesticity
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add a new obligation toward women: to foster an artistic environment that would nurture the family's cultural improvement
a domestic ideal women were supposed to make the hoe "a place of repose, a refuge from the exitedment and distraction of outside, provided with every attainable means of rest and recreation |
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John Harvey Kellogg
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was an American medical doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan, who ran a sanitarium using holistic methods, with a particular focus on nutrition, enemas, and exercise. Kellogg was an advocate of vegetarianism and is best known for the invention of the corn flakes breakfast cereal with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg.
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William Jennings Bryan
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anti-imperialist
nominated 3 times to run for president for the democratic party from nebraska, a lawyer in one campaign was very for free and unlimited coinage of silver assisted the prosecution in the scopes trial, bryan looked pretty foolish |
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Yellow Journalism
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William Randolph Hearst's debased editorial apporach.
newspapers exploited the cuban crisis, turning rumor into fact |
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Jacob Coxey
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self-taught monetary expert
though that the answer to unemployment was a $500 million public-works program funded with paper money not backed by gold |
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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1896, organized a Filipino independence movement to drive out the Spanish
1898, along with Admiral Dewey, his forces captured most of the Philippines' main island He proclaimed the Philippine's independence and drafted a democratic constitution felt betrayed when the US occupied his country and turned on the us troops |
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Open Door Notes
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Secretary of State John Hay sent notes to the imperialist pwers in China requesting that they open the ports within their spheres of influence to all comers and not grant special priveleges to traders of they own nations
In, general, this allowed China to remain open to US business intersts as well as Christian missionary efforts |
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W.E.B. DuBois
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A black sociologist
documented the hardships of african-americans in philidelphia April 1917, he urged African-Americans to support the war Was a critic of African Americans returning to "Motherland Africa" |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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A woman's suffrage advocate and speaker for women's rights
asserted that women would make an effective contribution to society only when they won economic independene from man through work outside the home criticized middle-class society for its obsession with manners and empty social rituals advocated economic independence fow moen through equality in the workplace; the collectiviztion of domestic chores; and state-run day-care centers |
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Robert A. La Follette
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Governor of Wisconsin in 1900 as an independant
adopeted the direct primary system, set up a railrod regulatory commision, increased corporate taxes, and limited campaign spending His reforms gained national attention as the "Wisconsin Idea" as a senator in 1909 for wisconsin turned against President Taft after a tariff struggle Was going to run for president in 1912 but his candidacy collapsed when TR enetered the race A leader of the progressive movement Anti-war |
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John Dewey
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was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
was prowar and condemned the war's opponents by 1919, he was no longer pro-war and felt that war had unleashed the most reactionary and intolerant forces in the nation |
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Booker T. Washington
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The nation's foremost African-American leader from the 1890's until his death
Born into slaver in Virginia in 1856, son of a slave woman and her white master, he enrolled at freedman's school in Hampton, Virginia, and in 1881 organized a state vocational school in Tuskegee, Alabama, that became Tuskegee University. Taught that once African-Americans proved their exonomic value, racism would ebb emphasized patience and manual skills |
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Frederick Taylor
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taylorization
wrote a book about how to increase output by standardizing job routines and rewarding the fastest workers. |
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George Creel
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a progressive reformer and journalist
headed Washington's most effective wartime propaganda agency, the Committee on Public Information. |
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Along with TR, and diplomat John Hay, led a group of republican expansionists who tirelessly preached imperial greatness and military might
became senate majority leader and was against Wilson's league of nations |
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Dollar diplomacy
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is the term used to describe the efforts of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its foreign policy aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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a rabidly antiradical and politically amvitious attorney general
coordinated "Red raids," where hundreds of accussed communists were arrested The Red Scare subsided as his irrational predictions failed to materialize |
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Randolph Bourne
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WWI most incisive critic, who was a young journalist at the time.
Admired John Dewey but was very against the war he wrote that war could no more be controlled by intellectuals than a rogue elephant crashing through a bush |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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wrote books in the 20s that exemplified the jazz age and they flapper era
the great gatsby |
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Alice Paul
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Founded the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, later reneamved the National Woman's party in 1917 trying to get a woman's suffrage ammendment
also campaigned for an equal-rights amendment |
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Alfred Smith
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Governor of New York, an Irsih Roman Catholic
ran for presidency as a democrat in 1928 vs. herbert hoover formed the anti-new deal american liberty league |
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Aimee Semple McPherson
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also known as "Sister Aimee" or "Sister," was a Canadian-born evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s; she was also the founder of the Foursquare Church. She was a pioneer in the use of modern media, especially radio, to create a form of religion that drew heavily on the appeal of popular entertainment.
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Marcus Garvey
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a spellbinding orator
created the universal negro improvement association he glorified all things clack he called the worlds blacks to return to "motherland africa" he was ultimately deported to jamaica |
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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an educator, appointed by FDR, as director of minority affairs in the National Youth Administration.
she served in the "black cabinet" |
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Huey Long
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A flamboyant political hell-raiser from Lousisiana, became FDR's wiliest rival
governor in 1928 senator in 1933 came up the the "Share our wealth" program - bassically communism Was assasinated in september 1935 |
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Father Coughlin
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A Detroit Catholic priest and radio spellbinder
attacked FDR as a great betrayer and liar, made anti-semitic allusions, and called for nationalization of the banks |
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Harry Hopkins
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One of the new deals most powerful figures
appointed by FDR to head the Federal Emergency Relief Act convinced FDR to support direct federal relief programs, rather than channeling funds through state and local agencies. FDR then named Hopkins the head of a temporary public works agency, the civil Works Administration he sought above all to put people to work and get money circulating in 1935, FDR created the Works Progress Administration under him |
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John L. Lewis
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November 1935, he belonged to the United Mine Workers started a comittee for Industrail Organization within the American Federation of Labor
had a successful strick in 1936 with U.S. steel and the laborers were awarded higher wages and a 40 hour work week |
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John Collier
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a reformer, wjp ad ;oved a,pmg tje Pueblo Indiians of New Mexico, founded the american indian defense association in 1923 to preserve the spiritual beauty and harmony that he saw in traditional indian life
The indian reorganization act of 1934 was a compromize to Colliers proposals that stopped the sale of tribal lands |
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Atlantic Charter
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issued by FDR and Chruchill, the charter condemned aggression, affirmed national self-determination, and endorsed the priniciples of collective security and disarmament
was the essential blue-print for the Post War world and is the foundation for many of the international treaties and organizations that currently shape our world |
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A Philip Randolph
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president of Sleeping Car Porters, he proposed non violent direct action
1941 - called for a thundering march of 100,000 blacks on Washington "to wake up and shock white America." Got FDR to prohibit discriminartory employment pracitices by bederal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work and establiched the Fair Employment Practices Commission |
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Yalta Agreements
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Meeting between allied leaders near the end of WWII
Stalin promised to declare war on Japan "two or three months" after Germany's surrender Stalin also accepted the temprorary partitioning of Germany and the postponement of dicussions about prearations. Stalin also approved plans for a united nations conferenc eot establish a permanent tinernational organization for collective security |
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Wendell L. Wilkie
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reprublican nominee who championed to aid Britain during before US entered WWII
wrote a fastest selling nonfiction noven in 1943 |
