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34 Cards in this Set
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Pacific Railway Act |
Law provided land grants to railroad companies to make a rail line linking to east & west coast |
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Plessy vs Ferguson |
Supreme court ruling that abolished " separate but equal" for public facilities |
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Horizontal integration |
Ownership of several companies that make the same product |
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Vertical integration |
Ownership of businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process |
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Great upheaval |
Year of intense worker strikes and violent labor confrontations |
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Sussex Pledge |
German promise not to sink merchant ships |
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Fourteen points |
Wilson's plan to avoid future wars |
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William Randolph Hearst |
New York journal |
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Ida Tarbell |
Didn't like Rockefeller wrote history of the standard oil company |
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Geronimo |
Indian apache leader |
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Upton Sinclair |
Writer of the jungle |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Immigrant workers in steal industry and became richest man |
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John d. Rockefeller |
Owned standard oil company |
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Lincoln Steffens |
Journalist that marked the beginning of muckrakers |
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Thomas Nast |
Drew political cartoons and helped expose Tweed |
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W.E.D DuBois |
African American leader that founded the NAACP |
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Marcus Garvey |
Jamacian that founded the UNIA |
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Charles Lindberg |
Celebrity pilot that flew for 33.5 hours straight |
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Louis Armstrong |
Jazz musician |
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Ernest Hemingway |
Lost generation writer |
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Henry Ford |
Car manufacturer |
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Big stick diplomacy |
Roosevelt |
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Dollar diplomacy |
Taft influencing Latin America through economic not military |
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Open dolor policy |
Equal trade worth China |
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Monroe doctrine |
No interfere with Europe unless they try to colonize here |
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Moral diplomacy |
Wilson |
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Red scare |
Period of anti communist hysteria |
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Initiative |
Voter introduce new legislation |
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Referendum |
Place new law on the ballot for public approval |
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Square deal |
Theodore Roosevelt balanced business, consumer, and labor |
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The jungle |
Book about meatpacking plant by Upton Sinclair |
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Reclamation |
Making damaged land productive |
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Bolsheviks |
Radical Russian socialist |
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Manfred con Richthofen |
Red Baron |