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Temperance movement
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The temperance movement was a social movement during the progressive era led by groups such as the women Christian. It was urging to prohibit the use of alcoholic beverages
EFFECT = led to the 18 amendment |
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The jungle
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The jungle was a book written by Upton Sinclair about the meet scandals, poverty hard working conditions
EFFECT= led to people thinking twice and by this the law pure food and drug act was created |
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muckrakers
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Muckraker was a name given to a writer in the early 20 century who exposed corruption and scandals in business to the public
EFFECT = led to the political and social improvements |
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Open door policy
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The open door policy was when ALL the countries where allowed to trade with China.
EFFETCT= led to the boxer rebellion |
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Boxer rebellion
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The boxer rebellion is when presents banned together and created the fist of righteous harmony . The where fighting against foreign countries .
EFFECT= the rebellion made China weak and led to the. Fall of China's dynasty and into a Republic |
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Roosevelt Corollary
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Roosevelt corollary. It was a policy set up by teddy also know as the big stick policy he is saying that he will intervien with the medtrainene
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Dollar diplomacy.
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Dollar diplomacy. President Taft said that we will intervien with money and instead of fighting we will give money like the panama canna.
EFFECT it declined are trade but it also let us build the Panama Canal |
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Panama Canal
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Built throughout the panama and it connecs to pacific the the alantic we won by revolting against the king
EFFECT it saves time and Monty and it allows for fast military it is one of the eight wonders of the world |
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4 causes of world war 1
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Nationalism, materialism, isolationism, alliances
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Spark of world war 1
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The spark of ww1 was that Gaverillo princip shot the archduke and his wife
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Buying on margin
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Buying on margin. The purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker. Buying on margin refers to the initial or down payment made to the broker for the asset being purchased.
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Black Tuesday
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The most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of the United States, Black Tuesday took place on October 29, 1929 and was when the price of stocks completely collapsed. It was because of this day that the Roaring Twenties came to a stumbling halt and, in its place, was the Great Depression
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Business cycle
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A business cycle is basically defined in terms of periods of expansion or recession. During expansions, the economy is growing in real terms
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Great Depression
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century.
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New deal
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The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. That is Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression.
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Fire side chats
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Fireside chats President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took office in early 1933, would become the only president in American history to be elected to four consecutive terms. He would lead his nation through two of the greatest crises in its history—the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II (1939-45)—and would exponentially expand the role of the federal government through his New Deal reform program and its legacy. From March 1933 to June 1944, Roosevelt addressed the American people in some 30 speeches broadcast via radio, speaking on a variety of topics from banking to unemployment to fighting fascism in Europe. Millions of people found comfort and renewed confidence in these speeches, which became known as the “fireside chats.”
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Tennessee valley authority
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.
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Socially security act
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The Social Security Act was drafted during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first term by the President's Committee on Economic Security, under Frances Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the Second New Deal. The act was an attempt to limit what was seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens of widows and fatherless children. By signing this act on August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt became the first president to advocate federal assistance for the elderly.
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Dust bowl
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Extensive deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains during the previous decade had displaced the native, deep-rooted grasses that normally trapped soil and moisture even during periods of drought and high winds. Rapid mechanization of farm implements, especially small gasoline tractors and widespread use of the combine harvester, significantly impacted decisions to convert arid grassland (much of which received no more than 10 inches (250 mm) of precipitation per year) to cultivated cropland.
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Bonus army
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The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates
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Bolshevik and Russia withdraws from the war
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They withdrew firm the war because the were communist, and Russia could not keep fighting under the conditions of the war.
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Fourteen point plan
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The "Fourteen Points" was a statement given on the 8th of January, 1918 by United States President Woodrow Wilson declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe. Europeans generally welcomed Wilson's intervention, but his main Allied colleagues (Georges Clemenceau of France, David Lloyd George of Great Britain, and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy) were skeptical of the applicability of Wilsonian idealism.
He came up with the league of nations |
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Treaty of Versailles
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The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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