People's History - Exam 1

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Yellow-Dog Contracts

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- Said "Not allowed to join union"
- Women weavers striking

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Farmer's Alliances

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- Organized US farmers
- Core of Populist movement
- Nationalization
- Wanted sub-treasury
- Bulking

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Eugene V. Debs

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- Founder of:
- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
- American Railway Union

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Pullman Strike

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- 50,000 workers
- Wages not increased
- Eugene Debs - Boycott all Pullman cars
- 2,000 state troops break it

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Pinkerton Army

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- Homestead strike
- Surrendered
- Rent-a-cops

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Homestead Strike

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- Pittsburgh
- Carnegie got Frick to make strike by creating large inventories
- Pinkerton Army (surrendered)
- State Militia won after

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Haymarket Square (Riot)

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- Wanted 8 hour day
- McCormick calls police
- Police die in explosion
- May Day

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Samuel Gompers

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- Founded AFC
- Socialist

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American Federation of Labor (AFL)

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- limited membership to workers and organizatonsof union workers
- Reped skilled workers

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Knights of Labor

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- Grouped workers by inudstry, regardless of trade or skill
- Got 8 hour day
- Arbitrition rather than strikes
- Ended child labor

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Homestead Strike

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- Pittsburgh
- Carnegie got Frick to make strike by creating large inventories
- Pinkerton Army (surrendered)
- State Militia won after

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Haymarket Square (Riot)

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- Wanted 8 hour day
- McCormick calls police
- Police die in explosion
- May Day

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Samuel Gompers

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- Founded AFC
- Socialist

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American Federation of Labor (AFL)

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- limited membership to workers and organizatonsof union workers
- Reped skilled workers

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Knights of Labor

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- Grouped workers by inudstry, regardless of trade or skill
- Got 8 hour day
- Arbitrition rather than strikes
- Ended child labor

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Bassemer Process

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- Fast way of producing iron

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Taylorism

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- Management being able to control every detail of production
- New auto industry

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Federick W. Taylor

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- Analyzed every job in mill
- Made system for efficent labor
- Increased mechanization
- Book: Scientific Management

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Bassemer Process

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- Fast way of producing iron

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Taylorism

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- Management being able to control every detail of production
- New auto industry

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Federick W. Taylor

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- Analyzed every job in mill
- Made system for efficent labor
- Increased mechanization
- Book: Scientific Management

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Thomas Edison

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- Inventor
- Promised Jersey politicians 1,000 for favorable legislation

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Kelly Converter

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Steel Converter

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Monopoly

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- Standard Oil, US Steel, Pennsylvania Railroad
- Benefit from "welfare state"
- Made sure senators passed tarrifs

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Refrigerated Cars

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- McCormick could transport meats
- (Or) Meats in general could be processed

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Horatio Alger

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- Useful myth for control
- Said that if you worked hard enough, you would make it

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Vertical Integration

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- Investing in mines, cole, railroads (all business in those industries)

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Horizontal Integration

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Social Darwinism

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- Survival of fittest
- Carnegie & Elites justified wealth because they felt they were fit
- leads to a "national suffering"

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Andrew Carnegie

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- Leading steel producer
- Wrote "Gospel of Wealth"

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Gospel of Wealth

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- Carnegie's apology
- Encouraged people to give back thier wealth

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Eminent Domain

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- Used to take farmer's land and give it to canal or railroad companies as subsidies

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Scabs

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- Workers of different minorities
- Subsitutes
- Worked cheaper
- For causing racial or ethnic conflict

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Molly Maguires

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- Irish strikers
- Heavy on violence

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League of Nations

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- Part of the Treaty of Versailes
- Part didn't want it because it made the constitution NOT supreme
- US did not join after WWI

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Sedition Act

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- Illegal to mutter any language against war in Europe
- Socialst against war; thrown in jail
- Wobblies too

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U-Boats

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- Germans invented
- Part of technology for WWI

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Granger Movement

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- Farmers banding together
- Wanted state regulation
- Grain Silos, storage
- A cooperative local movement

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Populists Party

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- People's party
- Scarred the government because they started winning seats at every level of gov
- James Weaver

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Article X

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New multi lateral nations
- league could act as a last resort
- League of Nations

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Woodwrow Wilson

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- President during WWI
- Proposed Treaty of Versailes
- Wanted to keep neutral in war

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Sussex Pledge

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- Gets Germans to promise not to sink anymore ships
- Germans step back to protect civilian life
- Germans blown away (taken advantage of)

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Treaty of Versailles

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- Treaty to tie US into League of Nations
- Rejected because it would subvert constitution

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Sherman Act

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- Gov action to limit monopolies

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Hellen Keller

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Socialist

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Woodwrow Wilson

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- President during WWI
- Proposed Treaty of Versailes
- Wanted to keep neutral in war

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Sussex Pledge

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- Gets Germans to promise not to sink anymore ships
- Germans step back to protect civilian life
- Germans blown away (taken advantage of)

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Treaty of Versailles

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- Treaty to tie US into League of Nations
- Rejected because it would subvert constitution

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Sherman Act

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- Gov action to limit monopolies

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Hellen Keller

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Socialist

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

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- Knew that if US wanted empire, they had to control seas
- Proposed water way through continent

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William Randolf Hurst

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- Inserted funny pages
- Yellow Kid
- Sends persn to Cuba to get pics

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Joseph Pullitzer

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- Makes up war stories to sell papers
- Sensationalist media

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Yellow Kid

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- Part of funny papers
- Poked fun at stuff going on in country

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Yellow Journalism

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- Scandal mongering, jingoism
- Sensationalist
- Used by Pulitzer and Hearst

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Margaret Sanger

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- Progressive
- Birth control advocate

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Upton Sinclair

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- Wrote "The Jungle"
- Book caused publc uproar and got Meat Inspection Act

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Meat Inspection Act

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- Meat companies asked Congress to pass this to quiet socialists
- Didn't really check meat

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Carrie Nation

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- Attacked saloons with a hatched
- Against alcohol
- For Temperance Movement

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Proclamation of Neutrality

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- Progressive language
- Woodwrow Wilson
- Treaty to keep US out of war
- chance to end imperalism
- "A Peace without victory"
- "A War To End All Wars"
- Moral High Ground

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Temperance Movement

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- Against alcohol consumption
- Carrie Nation

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William Taft

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Granted:
- Graduated income tax
- Senators elected by popular vote

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Amendment 16

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Graduated income tax

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Amendment 17

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Senators elected by popular vote

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Amendment 18

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Prohibition

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Amendment 19

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Gurantees right for women to vote

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Amendment 20

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- Starting and ending terms for President

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Amendment 21

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- Ended Prohibition

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American Luberty League

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- Defend and uphold constitution
- Foster the right to work, earn, save, and acquire property

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American Protective League

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- Federal police and bereau of investigation in support of the anti German empire and against anti-war citizens

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War Guilt Clause

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- Clause in Treaty of Versalies
- Said Germany had to take full responsiblity for starting WWI

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Triple Alliance

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- Treaty for Germany, Austria-Hungry, and Italy to support one another in war

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Triple Entente

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- Britian, France, Russia
- Opposed central powers during WWI

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Westinghouse Airbrakes

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- Got rid of break man
- Theme of techonology

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16 to 1

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16 ounces of gold to 1 silver

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Terence Powderly

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Leader of Knights of Labor

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DeLome Letter

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Letter inted to be sent to Spanish, intercepted by media -- criticized McKinley

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Christopher Sholes

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Invented typewriter

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WCTU

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Christian Temperence union - prohibition

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Settlement Movement

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Movement to improve conditions in society-- to eliminate poverty -- Jane Adams

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L Frank Baum

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Writer of The Wizard of Oz

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Coxey's Army

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- Protest march to Washington
- Coxey arrested for walking on grass

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Progressivism

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- Moderate change
- lip service to issues
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Northern Securities

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- Railroad conglomerate
- Vicitm of Roosevelt's trustbusting

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Anthracite Coal Strike

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- Long coal strike
- Roosevelt attempting to mediate with the Square Deal

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Federal Reserve Act

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created the Federal Reserve System which was the central bank for America

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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Federal inspection of food
- Companies pushed for it

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Lusitiana

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Germans torpedoed it
- Provoked protest from Americans

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Teller Amendment

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joint resolution that led to the Spanish-American war

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William Prager

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US-German
- Applied to army, laughed out