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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
learders of the Women's Rights Movement in th e1880's. Anthony is honored on a coin
The Women's RIght's Movement
Sought suffrage for women, which is the right to vote
Andrew Carnegie
ahieved a vertical monopoly in the steel industry by controlling resources at each stage of the productoin and distribution of that product
Henry Ford
created the assembly line which revolutionized industry and made the Model T affordable for the average American Family
Samuel Gompers
organized workers along trade lines in the American Federation of Labor
Booker T. Washington
founded the Tuskegee Institute with the goal of gradually elevating the status of members of his race by providing them with vocational education
Booker T. Washingon VS. DuBois
Washington favored gradual improvement of status, while DuBois demanded equality immediately as a matter of right
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Made a fortune in the railroad industry and left much of that fortune to found Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
John D. Rockefeller
bought out competitors or drove them out of business to create a horizontal monoply in the oil industry. His company was Standard Oil
The Wright Brothers
invented the airplane, which they tested at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The airplane revolutionized both transportationa nd warfare in the 20th century
W.E.B. DuBois
believed that a university education in the liberal arts was essential for the talented tenth of his race.
J.P. Morgan
created innovative financial tools that helped to spur on commerce during the Gilded Age
The Tennessee Valley Authority
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
The FDIC
insures deposits in banks, thus helping to prevent runs on banks in times of economic uncertainty
The SEC
created during the new deal to prevent some of the abuses in the Stock Market that led to the crash of 1929
The Workers Pgrogress Administration
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
The Social Security Administration
created during the New Deal, provided old age pensions and unemployment insurance
Upton Sinclair
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
Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
2 presidents who supported the goals of the Progressive Movement. Roosevelt was a republican and Wilson was a democrat
The Progressive Movement
a middle-class response to the Industrial Revolution
Immigrants from Asia and Eastern Europe
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
Plessy V. Ferguson
Seperate but equal was fine, thus supporting the unfair conditions that prevailed under the system known as jim crow
17th Amendment
the direct election of Senators thater than following the original Constitutional procedure of having state legislatures appoint Senators
The Progressive Movement
middle-class response to the Industrial Revolution
Anti-trust legislation
(clayton and sherman act) sought to break up and prevent the creation of monopolies
19th Amendment
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
William Randolph Hearst
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
The US V. Spain
fought to control Cuba in the SPanish American War
Secretary of Sate John Hay
Sought an Open DOor Policy in China which would allow the US to trade in all of the European nation's spheres of Influence
President Taft's Dollar Diplomacy
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
Imperialism
involves a nation in expanding territory, establishing colonies, and imposing economic and military control over weaker nations
American Missionaries and owers of sugar and pineapple plantations
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
Woodrow Wilsduring WWI
felt that he was forced to abandon his pacifist and isolatinist principles by Germany's practice of unrestricted submarine warfare
Trench Warfare during WWi
resulted in the stalemate that was only broken b the entry of the US
Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
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
Treaty of Versailles
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
Herbert Hoover
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
Franklin Roosevelt
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
Prior to the Crash of 1929
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
the Dust Bowl
factors that created it were weather conditions and poor farming techniques
After WWI
Americans wanted to return to isolationism recommended by George Washington. because of transportation and techonology it did not work
Winston Churchill
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
Hitler
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
Blitzkrieg
refers to the German Army strategy of marching into a nation with massive numbers of infantry troops to overwhelm defenses
Lend-Lease
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.
Eisenhower commanded the D-Day invasion
called for an immense coordination of men and equipment and close consultation with our British allies and leaders of the French Resistance
Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy during WWII
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
Anti-Semitism
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
Leapfrogging
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
Pearl Harbor
attacted by Japanese on December 7, 1941, led the US to declare war
Navajo Code talkers
Allowed American Forces in the Pacific to communicate in a code that was never broken by the Jananese
Battle of Midway
the turning point of the Pacific Campaign. After Midway the US gained momentum over the Japanese
Stalin
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
Tojo
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
The Battle of Britain
Air battle in which germans bombed important british citities causing londoners to seek refuge in the subway.
Fanatical resistance of Japan
at battle of Okinawa heled Truman to decide to drop the Atom bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki