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30 Cards in this Set
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Prohibited the making, selling, or transporting of alcoholic beverages.
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18th Amendment.
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Women recieve the right to vote.
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19th Amendment.
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This act passed in 1924 significantly reduced the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. It also prohibited immigration from Asia.
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National Origins Act.
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A farming cooperative in which farmers pool their resouces in the purchasing and selling of farm machinery and products.
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The Grange.
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A movement designed to address the concerns of farmers and other political reformers. free coinage of silver, industrial reforms. Key figure- William Jennings Bryan "the Nebraska Cyclone" a three time presidential candidate.
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Populist Movement.
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A writer of children's books which idealized gaining wealth through hard work.
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Horatio Alger.
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President from 1901-1909 who initiated progressive reforms the fields of nature, conservation, and buisness.
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Theodore Roosevelt.
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Upton Sinclair's book exposing the bad working conditions and dangerous food quality in themeat processing industry.
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The Jungle.
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A cable laid in 1855 that relayed messages from Europe to the US borought two continents closer.
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Transatlantic Cable.
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founder of Tuskegee Institure in AL accepted segregaiton but pushed for equal economic opportunities for blacks.
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Booker T. Washington
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Student of Booker T. Washington who gained fame for his research with peanus, soybeans, and cotton.
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George Washington Carver.
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A group of black intellectuals who outline an agenda for balck progress their ideas were adopted by the NAACP.
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The Niagra Movement.
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Supreme Court Desision in this case segregatino facilities for blacks seprerate but must be equal.
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Passed in 1882, prohibited Chinese from legally immigration to the United States.
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Chinese Exclusion Act.
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A book written by Ida Tarbell exposing the abuses of rthe Standard Oil Co.
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History of the Standard Oil Company.
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Progressive leader for public education.
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Horace Mann.
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Intellectuals who write stories cocerning the abuses of big buisness on workers and on consumers.
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Muckrakers.
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26th president known as a "trustbuster" who was nationalistic on foreign policy, and a friend of the environment.
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Theodore Roosevelt.
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Elected in 1912 Wilson designed a reform program that ensured competion in the marketplace while keeping business outof the government's control. He was president during WWI.
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Woodrow Wilson
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Established in 1914 this frederal agency investigated companies for unfair business practices.
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Federal Trade Commission.
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Booker T. Washington's speech at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895 that explained his philosophy of maintaining social seperation of the races while pushing for gradual gains in civil rights for Blacks.
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Atlanta Compromise.
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Black intellectual who opposed Booker T. Washington's acceptance fo segregation; Proponent of immediate civil rights and opportunities for the "Talented Tenth" of African Americans. He was a founder of the NAACP and editor of tits magazine, The Crisis.
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W.E.B. Dubois.
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Congress passed this law in 1921 to slow immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
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Emergency Quota Act.
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Loyalty to the interests and culture of one's country.
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Nationalism.
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National policy of avoiding plitical ofr economic alliances with other countries.
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Isolationism.
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Theodore Roosevelt's volunteer force who fought in Cuba during the Spanish American War. Made famous by the charge up San Juan Hill.
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Rough Riders.
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British passenger ship. that was sung by German U-Boat on of the steps leadin US to enter WWI.
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Lusitania.
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A telegram interepted by US. Sent from Germany to Mexico trying to get Mexico to enter into war against US. Another step leading US to enter WWI.
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Zimmerman Telegram.
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Writer in teh 1920's; wrote The Great Gatsby.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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A writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife; from Montgomery, AL. She and Scott personified life in the 1920's .
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Zelda Fitzgerald.
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