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38 Cards in this Set
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Paterson Silk Strike
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Increased from 2 looms to 4 but with no increase in pay
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Manifest Destiny
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US expanded westward to teh pacific ocean and into Mexican Territory
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Prohibited all Chinese except students teachers merchants tourists and government officials from entering the US
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Nativists
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Favoring the interests of native born people over foreign people
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Assimilation
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Minority Groups adopted of the beleifs and ways of life of the dominate culture
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Ghetto
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a city neighborhood in which a certain minority group is pressured or forced to live
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Yellow Journalism
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Use of sensational and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magizines to attract readers.
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Imperialism
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Policy of extending a nations authority or other countries by econmic, political or military means
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William H Taft
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President at the start of the Paterson Silk Strike
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Upton Sinclair
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Mukraking Journalist... Wrote the Jungle
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Zimmerman Note
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Message sent in 1917 by the German Foreign Minster to the Ambassitory in mexico Proposing German Mexican Alliance and prounounces to help Mexico region Tx Nm AZ in the US
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Mukraker
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One of the magazine journalists who exposed the corupt side of buisness and public life in teh early 1900's
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Pure food and Drug Act
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Law enacted in 1906 to hault the sale of Contaminated foods and drugs and to ensure truth in labelings
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Populists
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People who beleived everyone had a voice in the government
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Cornelius Vanderbit
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Supplier of all the Railroads
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acculturation
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modification of the culture of a group or individual as a result of contact with a different culture
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William McKinley
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Spanish-American War (1898), the annexation of Cuba and the Philippines, an open-door policy with China,
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Antitrust legislation
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law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
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Lincoln Steffen's
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American journalist. As managing editor of McClure's Magazine (1902-1906), he exposed governmental corruption in a series of articles, thereby inaugurating the era of muckraking journalism.
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Sinclair Lewis
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American novelist who satirized middle-class America in his 22 works
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Emma Lazarus
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American writer. Her poem “The New Colossus” is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty in Upper New York Bay.
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Jingoism
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We think we have an obligation to do so
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Russian Revolution
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period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922
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Triple Entente
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Great Britian, France, Russia, Serbia, Italy
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Lusitania
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An ancient region and Roman province of the Iberian Peninsula. It corresponded roughly to modern-day Portugal.
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Versailles Treaty
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Peace Treaty end of WW1 established new nation borders and war reps.
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War Reparations
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The act or process of repairing or the condition of being repaired.
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League of Nations
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promote international cooperation and peace
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Andrew Carnegie
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amassed a fortune in the steel industry and donated millions of dollars for the benefit of the public.
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Henry Ford
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American automobile manufacturer who developed a gasoline-powered automobile
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The Gospel of Wealth
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essay written by industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that described the responsibility of philanthropy of the new upper class of self-made monopolists
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Henry Clay Frick
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United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses
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Theodore Roosevelt
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hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration;
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Woodrow Wilson
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led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations
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Grover Cleveland
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The 22nd and 24th President of the United States
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Warren Harding
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29th President of the United States;
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Benjamin Harrison
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The first Pan-American Conference took place (1889) during his administration.
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