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Native of Scotland, Made way to Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Powerful steel Magnate.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Process for creating steel using oxygen.
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Bessemer process
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Ruthless Penn. industrialist, monopolized coal and coje production, reduced workers wages and hired 300 brutal Pinkertons.
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Henry Frick
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Method of controlling and monopolizing, used by leaders of big business in 1890's.
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Vertical Integration
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Derogatory term, leaders of big buisness.
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Robber Barrons
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Ultra-Wealthy ind. Banker, monopolized industry, fixed rates
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J. P. Morgan
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Invented 1st telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Famous inventer, hired by Wesern union.
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Came to control 90% of all refing capabilities, fully integrated oil company.
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John D. Rokefeller
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Restricted the formation of Trusts
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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she won Nobel Peace Prize for "settlement house"
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Jane Addams
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Largest Womens Organization of its day
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Womens Christian Temperance Union(WCTU)
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Railroad laborer, organized several unions, organized Socialist Democratic Party, ran unsuccessfully for president 5 times.
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Eugene V. Debs
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This company hired thugs to break up labor stikes.
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Pinkertons National Detective Agency
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Knigts of Labor lost its support when a bomb disrupted this Chicago location.
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Haymarket Square/Haymarket Riots
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This Union succeeded in gaining a respect and approval for labor unions.
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American Federation of Labor
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He was present for the assassinations of 3 presidents: Lincoln (his dad), Garfield and McKinley
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Robert Todd Lincoln
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John O'Sullivan coined this phrase, used to justify US expansion
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Manifest Destiny
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US "warhawk" asserted that Naval Power is crucial to the nations success internationally.
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Alfred T. Mahan
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These native Phillipine freedom fighters fought alongside the US then turned on them.
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Filipino nationalists
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Judicial institution created by US to mitigate problems of anti-US sentiments in Central America.
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Central American Court of Justice
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In assertion of US dominance in the Western Hemisphere, this man stated that "the carribean is our bathtub"
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William Jennings Bryan
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Led by Theodore Roosevelt, 1st Volunteer Cavalry Regiment.
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Rough Riders
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Famous all-Black Regiment
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Buffalo Soldiers
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Connected Atlantic Ocean with Pacific Ocean at Panama. What is term for this artificial waterway?
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isthmian canal
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Border conflict between Venezuela and Great Britian
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Venezuela Boreder Dispute
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This treaty granted US full right to the Panama Canal Zone
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Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
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The Culebra Cut on the Panama Canal crosses this geographical feature
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Continential Divide
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To sell newspapers, stories not founded in fact
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"yellow journalism"
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3 month war, US gained control over Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines.
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Spanish-American War
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Cuban writer, devoted to Cuban independence, while earning a living writing for US periodicals.
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Jose Marti
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US method of MILITARY coercing foregin nations to capitulate American demands
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"gunboat diplomacy"
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This US method of MONETARY coercing foreign nations to capitulate American demands
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"dollar diplomacy"
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Pres. Theodore Roosevelt won Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japaneese War with the...
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Treaty Of Portsmouth
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Legal assertion made in relation to the Monroe Doctrine justified US intervention in Latin America
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Roosevelt Corollary
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Location where the Wright Brothers made first sucessful airplane flight.
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Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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Name of Wright Brothers fisrt motor powered airplane.
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Flyer
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First person to cross the Atlantic non-stop
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Charles Lindbergh
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First woman to fly non-stop across Atlantic and between Hawaii and California
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Amelia Earhart
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innovator of assembly line automobile production created air car called the "flying flivver"
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Henry Ford
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Lawyer and progreesive social reformer achieved gains for women and children laborers
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Florence Kelley
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This reformer took advantage of the political and corporate scandals that plauged DC to successfully lobby for the passage of "obscenity laws" with regard to US mail
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Anthony Comstock
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She was an advocate and educator of birth control, first president of Planned Parenthood
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Margret Sanger
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Known as founder of American Psychology, formulated some ideas in his philosophy of Pragmatism
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William James
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Harvard law professor became known as the "Great Dissenter" for his progressive opinions in a conservative dominated court
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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New York Harbor, primary entry point for european immigrants. Decommisioned in 1943.
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Ellis Island
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Famous American Photographer perpetuated American rasist notions of Anglo ascendancy amidst the "vanishing" of the "indian race" thru beautiful portrayals of what he thought the were once like
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Edward S. Curtis
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Southern fundamentalist minister and auther glorified the KKK in his book, which was madeinto a film.
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Thomas Dixon
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Pres. Roosevelt sparked hig criticism when he invited this african-american friend to a white house dinner
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Booker T. Washington
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This African-American intellectual was the first black person to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. He co-founded the NAACP
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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Built on earlier institution, this agency of the Department of the Interior was created by Pres. Woodrow Wilson
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National Park Service
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Pres. Wilson sent this US general into Mexico to find Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution
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John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing
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The name for the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Austro-Hungary
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Triple Alliance
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Name for the "Allies" (Great Britian, France and Russia)
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Triple Entente
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128 Americans killed when a German "U-boat" sank this liner
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Lusitania
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Intercepted message from Germany to Mexico, asking for an alliance
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Zimmerman Telegram
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This Federal legislation required all men 18 to 45 to enter the draft
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Selective Service Act
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WWI came to an end with this document
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Armistice
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Irish immigrant, accountant for Chase Bank, career cut short by draft, died in training
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Michael J. Morris
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US contingment of the Allies fighting in WWI were known as the
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American Expeditionary Forces
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Newly corrupted bank system increased money supply during WWI
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Federal Reserve System
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US financed its role in WWI by the sales
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Liberty Bonds
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Pacifist leader, head of the National American Women Suffrage Association, later organized League of Women Voters
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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This ammendment legalized women voting
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19th Ammendment
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Pers. Wilson went to Paris to take part in the neotiations of the...
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Treaty of Versailles
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Famous progressive era lawyer defended in the "monkey trial"
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Clarence Darrow
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This revision to the constitution outlawed the consumption of alcohol
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18th Ammendment
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Reorganized racist group to target not only blacks, but catholics and jews as well
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KKK
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Sec. of the Interior in the Harding Presidential Cabinet, received money to allow big companies accsess to the nations oil reserves. Name this event.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Pres. Harding had sexual realations with this younger woman in a coat closet adgacent to the oval office.
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Nan Britton
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