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85 Cards in this Set
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Hobbes
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Believed best type of govt was an absolute monarchy
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Locke
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Believed that govt is supposed to protect your natural rights and if not, overthrow it.
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Rousseau
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Believed majority should rule but minority rights should be protected
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Latin America, France, America
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The enlightenment thinkers inspired revolutions in ____, ____, and ____
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Southern/eastern Europe
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During the 1880s ad 1890s the immigrants coming to the US came from _____
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Boss tweed
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Head of political machine in NYC. Believed in graft and was finally taken down by the cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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Birds of passage
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Immigrants who came to US to make money, then return home
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Ellis island, angel island
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____ was where immigrants coming from Europe would enter ad ____ was where immigrants coming from Asia would enter the US.
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Pendleton civil service act
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Rewarded govt jobs to people who passed an exam. You must earn your position now! No more patronage system
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Alice Paul
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Leader of the national women's party, protested with a hunger strike in front of the White House
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Federal trade commission
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Prevents one firm from destroying another through unfair business practices
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WEB Dubois
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Organized Niagra movement, which led to the formation of the NAACP.
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American federation of labor
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Labor union open to both men and women
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Knights of labor
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United all skilled workers
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Black Tuesday
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Stock market crash
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Monopolist
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Person who had full control of a particular product
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Transcontinental railroad
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Railroad that went across America
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Populists
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Believed in free coinage of silver, debt relief for farmers, and inflation to make it easier to pay back farmers loans
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William Jennings Bryan
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Gave the famous cross of gold speech and ran for presidency in 1896, lost to McKinley
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Sinclair
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Author of the jungle. This book prompted Roosevelt to pass meat inspection act
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Referendum
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Allows individual citizens to vote on the legislation that they initiated, which was a major contribution to American life
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Recall election
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Allows individual citizens to remove an elected official out of office before their term is up. Before, you were stuck with them for their full term
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Mann-Elkins act
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Gave the ICC more power by giving them control over all transportation
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La Follette
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Governor of Wisconsin who proposed the Wisconsin idea, where he would seek the advice of the college professors. He is considered a great progressive governor. "Battling bob" or "fighting bob"
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Jane Addams
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Responsible for the Hull house. One of the first settlement homes
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Initiative
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Allows individual citizens to initiate legislation
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Booker T. Washington
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Advocated in his Atlanta compromise for a gradual betterment of his people through support of vocational training for African Americans. WEB Dubois thought this was the wrong approach
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16th amendment
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Legalized income tax
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Coal strike 1902
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First time federal govt sided with the workers
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Vertical integration
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Where you boy out all the suppliers of a particular product
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Horizontal integration
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Merging together of similar products
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ICC
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First attempt by the US govt to regulate railroads. The problem was they didn't give this board enough power to do its job, still around today
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Lassiez-faire
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Govt should take a hands off approach
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Sherman anti-trust act
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Passed in order to break up test but failed to define what a trust was
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Gompers
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Founder of the American federation of labor, wanted to unite all skilled workers
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Credit mobilier
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Name of scandal where the stockholders gave the contract for 2 to 3 times the actual cost
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Social Darwinists
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Applied Darwin's ideas to society
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Haymarket affair
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People gathered to fight police brutality, located in Illinois
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Munn vs. Illinois
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Supreme Court case that upheld the granger laws
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Railroads
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____ were considered the first big business, used more than half of the nations steel, created a national market for the US
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Herbert spencer
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Supported lassiez-faire (no regulation of business)
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Teddy Roosevelt
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Said, "speak softly and carry a big stick." By this he meant always be willing to negotiate but always back yourself up with a good military
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Panama Canal
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Made it easier for Americans to ship goods, reduced travel time from the east to west coast, and made for a strong US military presence in Central America
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Teller amendment
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Where the US promised not to annex Cuba once order was restored
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Roosevelt corollary
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Made the US the official police gorse of South America. Roosevelt especially used this in the Caribbean
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Platt amendment
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Forbade Cuba from making treaties with other nations of borrowing money.
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Yellow journalism
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Given credit for starting Spanish-American war. The newspapers featured sensational headlines in order to get customers to read them
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USS Maine
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Was sent to Havana harbor to protect US citizens. Ends up getting blown up and the Spanish are blamed. This is the immediate cause of the Spanish-American war
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Redistribution of wealth
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The need for cheap labor, new economic markets, and a desire for military strength helped stimulate US _____
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Monroe doctrine
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Document was issued in 1823 to warn other nations of expanding their influence into Latin America
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Protectorate
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Country protected diplomatically/militarily by mother country
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Scheneke vs. US
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This Supreme Court case ruled that the words in a leaflet were not protected by the 1st amendment of the bill of rights
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Army
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In the treaty if Versailles, Germany is barred from maintaining an _____.
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Unrestricted submarine warfare
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_____ is one of the reasons why we got involved in WW1.
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John "blackjack" Pershing
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Commander of US forces in WW1.
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Espionage and sedition act
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Allowed the got to silence ideas that challenged its authority
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Selective service act
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Required all men at the age of 18 to register for the military
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Conscientious objector
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Name given to those who oppose war on moral grounds
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Imperialism
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Major cause of WW1, the framers of the treaty of Versailles barred Germany from maintaining an army and demilitarizing of the rhileland. (Term means wanting to keep expanding a country's territory)
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Planes and tanks
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_____ and _____ were new weapons use in WW1 (mechanized).
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Treaty of Versailles
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Ended WW1, failed to recognize that all countries need to be treated justly
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African Americans
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During WW1 they were used for manual labor in the armed forces
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Example of how immigrants with radical ideas were often mistreated. These 2 convicted and killed for murder because the judge did not believe in their radical ways, they were Italian
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Harlem renaissance
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Celebration of Adrian American culture in the arts and literature. This was a movement during the 1920s that reflected the new mood of the country
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Immigration quota act
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Change in policy in regards to immigration. Main purpose was to discriminate against people from eastern and Southern Europe and Asia
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Red scare
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Fear of communism being brought in by outsiders or immigrants in the us after WW1
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19th amendment
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Women right to vote/suffrage (amendment)
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Louis Armstrong
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Considered the greatest jazz musician of all time and will take his music from Louisiana to the north
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Speakeasies
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Hidden night clubs where drinkers went as to not get caught by the po po
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Scopes monkey trial
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Trial where evolution vs. religion or the fundamentalists vs. the Darwinists
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Allied war debt, American loans to Germany, militarism
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_____, _____, and _____ were all causes to the end of economic stability of the 1920s
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Probibition
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Hard to enforce cause so man people didn't care about the law....drinking was illegal
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Flappers
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Young women who challenged social norms. Showed their ankles, drank, smoked
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Great migration
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African Americans moving from the south to the north
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Fairer distribution of wealth
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________ was the primary goal of most reform movements during the Great Depression
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1932
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The presidential election of ____ is a turning point in US history. People now believed the fed govt should do more to fix the probs of society
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AAA
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Designed to help the farmers during the Great Depression
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CCC
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New deal program that put young, unemployed men to work
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Social security
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Piece of new deal legislation that is still around today
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Relief, reform, and recovery
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____, ____, and ____ were the 3 goals of the new deal programs
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Dust bowl
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Rocky Mountains to Mississippi River region, very flat ad not many plants to hold soil down
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Security exchange commission
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Federal agency that enforces laws and regulates industry
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National recovery act
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Attempted to stimulate economic recovery
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Libel
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To write something malicious and false about another person
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African Americans, women
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Constitutional amendments have helped both _____ and ____ be guaranteed equality under the law
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