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56 Cards in this Set
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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learders of the Women's Rights Movement in th e1880's. Anthony is honored on a coin
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The Women's RIght's Movement
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Sought suffrage for women, which is the right to vote
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Andrew Carnegie
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ahieved a vertical monopoly in the steel industry by controlling resources at each stage of the productoin and distribution of that product
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Henry Ford
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created the assembly line which revolutionized industry and made the Model T affordable for the average American Family
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Samuel Gompers
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organized workers along trade lines in the American Federation of Labor
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Booker T. Washington
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founded the Tuskegee Institute with the goal of gradually elevating the status of members of his race by providing them with vocational education
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Booker T. Washingon VS. DuBois
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Washington favored gradual improvement of status, while DuBois demanded equality immediately as a matter of right
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Made a fortune in the railroad industry and left much of that fortune to found Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
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John D. Rockefeller
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bought out competitors or drove them out of business to create a horizontal monoply in the oil industry. His company was Standard Oil
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The Wright Brothers
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invented the airplane, which they tested at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The airplane revolutionized both transportationa nd warfare in the 20th century
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W.E.B. DuBois
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believed that a university education in the liberal arts was essential for the talented tenth of his race.
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J.P. Morgan
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created innovative financial tools that helped to spur on commerce during the Gilded Age
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The Tennessee Valley Authority
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Was created during the New Deal to provide relief to farmers in the Tennessee River Valley region by damming rivers to prevent seasonal flooding, reate lakes and reservoirs, and provide electric power to the region
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The FDIC
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insures deposits in banks, thus helping to prevent runs on banks in times of economic uncertainty
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The SEC
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created during the new deal to prevent some of the abuses in the Stock Market that led to the crash of 1929
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The Workers Pgrogress Administration
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created during the New Deal to provide work for artists and craftspeople while also creating parks and museums to advance the American way of life
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The Social Security Administration
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created during the New Deal, provided old age pensions and unemployment insurance
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Upton Sinclair
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Muckraker who wrote the novel The Jungle to expose unsanitary conditions and other abuses in the meat packing industry during the Progressive era. Journalists who wrote stories revealing corruption were known as muchratkers
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Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
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2 presidents who supported the goals of the Progressive Movement. Roosevelt was a republican and Wilson was a democrat
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The Progressive Movement
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a middle-class response to the Industrial Revolution
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Immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe
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during the early 1900s immigrants faced discriminated and were often excluded from coming to the US by laws which allowed only a few people from certain countries to move to the US
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Plessy V. Ferguson
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Seperate but equal was fine, thus supporting the unfair conditions that prevailed under the system known as jim crow
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17th Amendment
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the direct election of Senators thater than following the original Constitutional procedure of having state legislatures appoint Senators
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The Progressive Movement
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middle-class response to the Industrial Revolution
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Anti-trust legislation
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(clayton and sherman act) sought to break up and prevent the creation of monopolies
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19th Amendment
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gave women the right to vote in 1920. Althohugh Suffrage for women was proposed at the Seneca Falls Convention prior o the Civil War in 1948
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William Randolph Hearst
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owned a chain of newspapers that helped encourage Americans to suppor tthe Spanish American War by giving readrs the most likely mistaken impression that Spanish officials in Cuba were responsible for sinking the American ship Maine
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The US V. Spain
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fought to control Cuba in the SPanish American War
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Secretary of Sate John Hay
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Sought an Open DOor Policy in China which would allow the US to trade in all of the European nation's spheres of Influence
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President Taft's Dollar Diplomacy
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American Business would invest in Latin America and those investments would be protected by the American military. Woodrow Wilson disapporoved of this policy on principle
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Imperialism
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involves a nation in expanding territory, establishing colonies, and imposing economic and military control over weaker nations
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American Missionaries and owers of sugar and pineapple plantations
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conspired to bring about the annexation of Hawaii by the US after arranging for the Queen to be deposed. Common people did not want this
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Woodrow Wilsduring WWI
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felt that he was forced to abandon his pacifist and isolatinist principles by Germany's practice of unrestricted submarine warfare
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Trench Warfare during WWi
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resulted in the stalemate that was only broken b the entry of the US
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Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
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issued with the goals of establishing a democratic Europe protected by a League of Nations as a means of ending WWI and creating a world free from war
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Treaty of Versailles
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failed to solve problems that led to WWI. Some say it caused WWII because it forced Germany to pay huge and unrealistsic war debts to the victors
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Herbert Hoover
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expressed his Laissez-Faire economic prinsiples in the early days of the Great Depression by expanding intervention in the economy, and refusing to interfere to prevent runs on bansk
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Franklin Roosevelt
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elected due to his promise to provide a federal governmental response to the problems creted by the great depression. His New deal provided relieft reconvery and reform
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Prior to the Crash of 1929
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The Stock marrket was characterized by speculation, purchase of stock on margin, and unrealistic expectatiosn that the market would only go up, but never down. The Fed. Gov. didnt regulate the Stock Market during this pre-New Deal period of history
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the Dust Bowl
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factors that created it were weather conditions and poor farming techniques
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After WWI
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Americans wanted to return to isolationism recommended by George Washington. because of transportation and techonology it did not work
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Winston Churchill
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served the British people as prime minister of his nation throughout most of WWII. He advocated and Allied attack in the Italy prior the the D-Day invasion of France. He became a critic of Sovet policy in Easter Europe. He was more effective than FDR in standing up to Stalin
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Hitler
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violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles by reinstituting the draft and invading the Rhineland. They failed to pushis him for this, Appeasement. Until the US was attacked by Japan it remained neutral also
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Blitzkrieg
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refers to the German Army strategy of marching into a nation with massive numbers of infantry troops to overwhelm defenses
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Lend-Lease
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created by FDR to support the British war effort against Hitler represented a significant departure from isolationistic neutrality enforced by the Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1936.
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Eisenhower commanded the D-Day invasion
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called for an immense coordination of men and equipment and close consultation with our British allies and leaders of the French Resistance
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Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy during WWII
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invaded Ethiopia during the appeasement period. The King of Ethiopia went to the League of Nations pleading for help, but was ignored. Although he was able to conquer a backward African nation that armed itself with shields and spears, Mussolini's Italian Amry was for the most pat ineffective, and it failed to block the Allied invasion of Italy. He was executed by his own poeple
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Anti-Semitism
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prejudice against Jewish people. Hitler used it to stir up the German people when he came to power. Nazi used it to justify the Holocaust
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Leapfrogging
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American strategy in WWII in the pacific Theater. Aerica avoided full force confrontation of Japanese strongholds and took overr unoccupied islands then bombing strongholsd with the goal os establishing bases from whihc to launch an assault on the home islands
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Pearl Harbor
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attacted by Japanese on December 7, 1941, led the US to declare war
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Navajo Code talkers
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Allowed American Forces in the Pacific to communicate in a code that was never broken by the Jananese
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Battle of Midway
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the turning point of the Pacific Campaign. After Midway the US gained momentum over the Japanese
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Stalin
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commanded the Red army victory over germany, pushing german forces out of soviet/russian territory and demanding that churchill and roosevelt establish a second european front. Churchill and Roosevelt were unhappy about the presence of the Red army
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Tojo
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faield to understand the extent to which the attack on Pearl Harbor would galvanize the resolve of the American people. they were most united and supportive of the gov during wwii
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The Battle of Britain
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Air battle in which germans bombed important british citities causing londoners to seek refuge in the subway.
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Fanatical resistance of Japan
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at battle of Okinawa heled Truman to decide to drop the Atom bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki
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