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46 Cards in this Set
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Jacob Riis |
1900s writer who exposed social and political evils within the US muckraker novel |
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Roosevelt Corollary |
US would act as international policemen. Addition to the Monroe Doctrine |
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Ida Tarbell |
Exposed the monopolistic practices of the Standard Oil Company in her book, History of the Standard Oil Company.
Strengthened the movement for outlawing monopolies |
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Upton Sinclair |
An author who wrote a book about the horrors of food productions in 1906 Bad meat quality and dangerous working conditions |
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Square Deal |
Roosevelt used this term to declare to use his presidency to safeguard the rights of workers |
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16th Ammendment |
Congress could levy an income tax |
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17th Ammendment |
People had the right to elect senators |
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18th Ammendment |
Prohibited the the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
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19th Ammendment |
Gave women the right to vote |
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Panama Revolution |
US tried to negotiate with Columbia to build something. Columbia refused and the US encouraged the country to revolt |
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Platt Amendment |
Specified the conditions under which the US could intervene in Cuba's international affairs Was later Incorporated into the Cuban Constitution |
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Venezuelan Boundary Dispute |
Dispute between US and Russia which took place on a border Britain won this dispute |
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Treaty of Paris |
Ended the Spanish-American war US gained Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines |
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Annexation of Hawaii |
US had exclusive use of a harbour Used the islands as naval ports |
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Teller Amendment |
US declared Cuba free from Spain This disclaimed any American intentions to annex Cuba |
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Spheres of Influence |
Political and economic control is exerted by a European nation to exclude all others
Appeared primarily in the East, Asia, and Africa |
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Dollar Diplomacy |
Taft and Knox came up with this to further foreign policy in 1909-1913 Meant to avoid military intervention by giving foreign countries monetary aid |
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William Howard Taft |
27th President Only man to be the President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roosevelt supported him and later ran against him |
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New Nationalism |
Government would be balanced and coordinate economic activity; would regulate business Theodore Roosevelt |
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New Freedom |
A belief for monopolies to be broken up and for governments to regulate business
Competition should be a thing Woodrow Wilson |
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Bull Moose Party |
Progressive Party owned by Roosevelt Ran against Taft and lost, but lost to Woodrow Wilson |
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Federal Reserve Act |
Regulated banking to help small businesses keep running An act that moved away from laissez-faire policies |
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Income Tax |
Helped build the government revenues and redistributing the wealth Levied annual income |
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Versailles Treaty |
Ended World War 1, and the Allies forced reparations on Germany June 28, 1919 |
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Irreconcilables |
Borah, Johnson's, LaFollete Voted against The League of Nations w/ or w/o reservations |
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Sinclair Lewis |
Main Street Babbit Attacked the weakness in American society; 1st to win literature Nobel Prize |
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Ernest Hemingway |
A Farewell to Arms Won a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize during the years 1952-54 |
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Volstead Act |
Set penalties for violating prohibition Defined which drinks constituted "intoxicating liquors" |
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Sacco and Vanzetti Case |
Italian immigrants charged with the murder of a guard and robbing a shoe factory Many believed they were framed for their anarchist and pro-union activities |
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Leopold and Loeb Case |
People who killed a young boy, Bobby Franks, to see if they could get away with it First people to use insanity defense in court |
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Scopes Trial |
A trial held after a Tennessee teacher taught evolution, which violated the Butler Act preventing the teachings of evolution Started a public shift away from Fundamentalism |
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Billy Sunday |
Baseball player and preacher Part of the Fundamentalist revival of the 1920s |
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Marcus Garvey |
Universal Negro Improvement Association Advocated "black nationalism" and financial independence Didn't believe blacks would not get justice in white nations |
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Reconcentration Policy |
Spaniards reorganized prisoners into labour camps during rebellion |
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Maine explodes |
The US blamed Spain for the explosion of an American warship
Was used as an excuse to go to war against Spain |
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Jack London |
American novelist and social activist
Advocate of unionization, socialism, and worker rights
The people of the Abyss, The Iron Heel, The Call of the Wild |
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KKK |
Racist close-minded white-supremacists who lacked a growing education and respect for different people who had more melanin than them... Founded by William Simmons (bastard) to fight the "growing influence" of colored people, Jewish, and Catholics A term to describe people like Trump Extreme Nativists People who shouldn't have existed... |
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T.S. Eliot |
Supporter of the modernist movement British, American born Literary and social critic The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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Insular Cases |
Determined that inhabitants of the US territories had some rights of US citizens |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
Rough Rider, Big Stick Diplomacy, Trustbuster, Progressive President 26th President |
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Alfred Mahan |
Captain of US Navy, Pro-Imperialism Bigger Navys to protect American Ships |
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Grover Cleveland |
22nd and 24th president Democrat, achieved Interstate Commerce Commission and civil service reform Honest and hardworking |
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Open Door Policy |
Asked influential countries to respect Chinese rights and promote fair trade with low tariffs Prevented any country to have a monopoly in China |
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Eugene V. Debs |
Labor reader who helped organize the American Railroad Union Ran for president Was arrested after protesting WWI violated the Sedition Act |
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W. E. B. Du Bois |
Fought for implementation of African American rights Opponent of Booker T. Washington Established NAACP |
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Populist Party |
People's party Free coinage of silver and paper money Asked for government reforms to help farmers |
