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32 Cards in this Set
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Temperance Movement
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Is a social movement urging reduced consumption or prohibition of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements typically criticize excessive alcohol consumption, promote complete abstinence (teetotalism), or pressure the government to enact anti-alcohol legislation or complete prohibition of alcohol.
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The Jungle
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Book written by Upton Sinclair
Effect= led to the pure food & drug act and meat inspection act |
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Muckrakers
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reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption.
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President Roosevelt & Conservation
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As a progressive president, Roosevelt's pushed national conservation of the land to preserve the land for all future generations
Effect= established National Parks and animal wildlife refuges |
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Sherman Anti-trust Acted
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The landmark act passed by Congress in 1890. It prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive,and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue
Effect= makes it against the law to create business/industry monopolies |
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Progressive Amendments:
18th amendment 19th amendment |
18th amendment: an amendment that prohibited alcoholic beverages in the United States
19th amendment: an amendment that gave all women the right to vote |
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Square Deal
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President Roosevelt's Progressive Party Campaign platform and domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservations of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection
Effect= Roosevelt vowed not to favor any group of Americans but to be fair to both consumers, labor unions, and business owners giving everyone a "square |
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Isolationism vs. imperialism.
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Isolationism: the country wants to be isolated
Imperialism: trying to buy out there competition Effect: one of the causes of WWI and the United States became a world power. |
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Spanish-American war
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Who: Cuba, Spain, and the United States
Where: Cuba (Caribbean Sea) & Philippines (Pacific Ocean) Why: Cuban revolt against Spanish rule, U.S. wanted to protect its interest in Cuba. U.S. Joins after the sinking of the USS Maine. Effect: U.S. gains Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines |
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Rough Riders
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The Rough Riders is the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War and the only one of the three to see action. Teddy Roosevelt was also in it.
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United States Trade w/ Japan
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U.S. wanted to open trade with Asia with Japan
Japan said" No" on the first attempt Commodore Matthew Perry went back offering technology gifts and seven war ships as a means of convincing Japan Effect: U.S. gains trade in Asia and Japan turns into a world power |
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4 Causes Of World War I
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1. Militarism: building up a strong military
2. Alliances: allied with other nations or agreement to other nations 3. Imperialism: led to European competition for colonies and resources 4. Nationlism |
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Spark of WWI
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Trench warfare & 1st Weapons
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Trench Warfare: is a new kind of warfare that is in trenches
Effect: led to a stalemate in WWI and to the creation of new weapons to end the stalemate New Weapons: Flamethrowers Tanks Grenades |
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German Submarine Warfare
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U- Boats to destroy enemy and neutral ships
The sinking of the Lusitania, a neutral ship was a minor cause of the U.S entering WWI The Zimmerman telegram called for renewed submarine warfare |
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Buying on the margin
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The process of purchasing stock with credit, hoping to sell at a high enough price to pay the loan and make a profit
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Black Tuesday
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October 29, 1929, one of the largest U.S. stock market drops
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Business cycle
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The rhythm in which an economy expands and contracts it's production
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Great Depression
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A severe economic crisis that lasted for the entire decade of the 1930s
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New Deal
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Franklin Roosevelt's legislative plan to end the Great Depression that included dramatic reforms of government agencies and powers
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Fireside Chats
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Radio programs in which Franklin Roosevelt explained his plan for recovery from the Great Depression
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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A governmental agency designed to bring jobs and electricity to rural areas of Tennessee River Valley
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Social security Act
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A law that instituted the pension plan social security
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Dust Bowl
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An area of the United States that suffered a severe drought during the 1930s
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Bonus Army
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An group of a World War I veterans that demanded their bonus payments early
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Open door policy
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A policy established by the US in 1899 to promote equal access for all nations to trade in China
Effect= led to boxer rebellion |
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Boxer Rebellion
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The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer uprising or Yihetuan Movement was a violent anti-foreign and anti-
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Zimmermann Telegram
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Telegram from Germany to Mexico offering Mexico a return of territory in exchange for declaring war on the United States
Effect: U.S enters World War I |
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Selective Service Act
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Law that allowed the president to draft soldiers in times of war
Effect: Created a large military for WWI and future conflicts |
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United States Home Front During WWI
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Liberty bonds: were sold in order to help in the war effort in Europe financially
Victory Gardens: we're used to visually show support as well as conserve food for the war effort in Europe Effect: |
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General john j Pershing
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General john j Pershing was the leader of the American Expeditionary Force that went to Europe when the U.S entered WWI
The AEF had the effect on rejuvenating the Allied Forces with fresh troops |
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Bolsheviks & Russia Withdraws from WWI
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Bolsheviks: are a group of Russians called the Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian czar, seized power, and established a Communism in Russia.
Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Effect= Russia was forced to withdraw from WWI |
