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15 Cards in this Set
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Southern born intellectual who pursued strong moral goals in politics and presidency |
Thomas Woodrow Wilson |
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Energetic progressive and vigorous nationalist who refused to wage another third party campaign in 1916 |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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Labor leader who hailed the Clayton Anti-trust Act as the "Magna Carta of Labor" |
Samuel Gompers |
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Leading progressive reformer and the first Jew named to the U.S. Supreme Court |
Louis B. Brandeis |
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Caribbean territory purchased by the United States from Denmark in 1917 |
Virgin Islands |
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Mexican revolutionary whose bloody regime Wilson refused to recognize and nearly ended IP fighting |
General Huerta |
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Second revolutionary Mexican president, who took aid from the United States but strongly resisted American military intervention in his country |
Venustiano Carranza |
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Ports where clashes between Mexicans and American military forces nearly led to a war in 1914 |
Tampico and Vera Cruz |
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Mexican revolutionary whose assaults on American citizens and territory provoked a U.S. expedition into Mexico |
"Pancho" Villa |
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Commander of the American military expedition into Mexico in 1916-1917 |
John J. Pershing |
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Small European nation whose neutrality was violated by Germany in the early days of WWI |
Belgium |
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Small European nation in which an Austro-Hungarian heir was killed, leading to the outbreak of WWI |
Serbia |
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Autocratic ruler who symbolized ruthlessness and arrogance to many pro-Allied Americans |
Kaiser Wilhelm II |
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Caribbean nation where Wilson sent American marines in 1915 |
Haiti |
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Narrowly unsuccessful presidential candidate who tried to straddle both sides of the fence regarding American policy toward Germany |
Charles Evans Hughes |
