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30 Cards in this Set
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Temperance movement |
is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Lead by woman
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Theodore Roosevelt's Conservation |
He was conserving national forests and natural resources |
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Muckrakers |
A term for coined for journalist who "raked up" and exposed corruption and problems of society |
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Square deal |
It was Theodore Roosevelt's idea to make things fair for the business owners, workers and consumers. |
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Sherman anti-trust act |
-congress made it-designed to eliminate monopolies and trusts
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Effect of U.S. Trade with Japan |
Japan has world power |
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Dollar diplomacy |
Influencing other countries using money
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Cause of growth of imperialism |
They needed natural resources(raw materials) |
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Roosevelt Corollary |
A attachment to the Monroe doctrine " we can, and will, intervene in Latin America if needed" |
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Effect of the Panama Canal |
Helped us become a world power It also opened naval and trading routes |
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Boxer rebellion |
Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there
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Purchase of Alaska |
William Seward bought Alaska for 7.2 million dollars. They called it Sewards foley or Sewards icebox |
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Open door policy |
A telegram the USA came up with to let everybody have a equal part of china |
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Location of Spanish-American war |
Cuba and the Philippines |
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Yellow Journalism |
journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration
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Effect of assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
Austria-Hungry declares war on Serbia |
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Zimmerman Telegram |
A telegram from Germany to Mexico telling Mexico that they would help get their land back if they declared war on the US |
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Selective Service Act |
A law that allowed the president to draft soldiers in times of war |
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WWI trench warfare |
A new kind of warfare in WWI that involved troops digging and fighting from deep trenches |
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Liberty Bonds |
Loans to the government that aided its bility to prepare for WWI |
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Russia withdraws from WWI |
-1914~1917 -they left because of the Bolshevik revolution. Also giving Germany a new hope of winning the war |
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US troops entering WWI |
-the war was at a stalemate -allied side had a advantage with new troops |
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Fourteen points peace plan |
-it was president Wilson's idea -the vast majority didn't really like the plan because it was to easy on Germany -leagues of nations |
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League of nations |
-a group of nations to prevent war -it didn't work -OUR CONGRESS HATED IT -it's a group of allies |
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Treaty of Versailles |
-it ended WWI -has been known to start WWII because Germany had to many punishment |
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Hoover vs FDR Great Depression Recovery plans |
-Hoover= charities and individuals= bad choice -FDR=the new deal —EFFECT- made us realize the government needs to be involved in our economic being |
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What created the dust bowl? |
-over farming -major drought -dust storms |
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New deal negatives |
Gave president to much power Tax increases |
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Social security act |
Assist-elderly and unemployed people Paid through taxes |
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Security exchange commission |
Aimed to fix/protect the stock market |
