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22 Cards in this Set
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Laissez - Faire |
Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nations economy. |
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Anarchist |
People who believe there should be no government |
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Fourteen Points |
President Woodrow Wilson's 14 point plan for lasting peace. Only point 14 went through (the league of nations) |
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League of Nations |
Woodrow Wilson created an organization of nations (14th point) to prevent future wars. The united states did not join. |
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General Strikes |
A strike that involves all workers living in a certain location, not just workers in a particular industry. |
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Red Scare |
1919 - 1920 promotion of scare of a potential rise in communism. |
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Palmer Raids |
1919 - 1920 were raids authorized by Attorney General Palmer against suspected communists with little regard givin to their civil rights. |
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Upton Sinclair |
Spent his life writing about and trying to change what he saw wrong in the united states. Book about the american meat packing industry. |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
Youngest person to ever serve as persident. Social Darwinist. "Survial of the fittest" |
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Woodrow Wilson |
Presented his plan known as the 14 points. Created league of nations. |
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John Scopes |
Broke Tennessee law by teaching EVOLUTION in his science class. |
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Progressivism |
A political movement that government should take a mire active role in dealing with social problems |
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Jim Crow Laws |
Statues or Laws created to enforce segregation. |
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Monopoly |
Total control of a type of industry by one person or one company. |
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Women sufferage |
Right for women to vote. 19th ammendment. |
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Trust |
A combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement, especially to reduce compitition. |
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Nativism |
Hostility toward immigrants. |
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Date of Spanish American war |
1898 |
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Saccot + Vanzetti |
Italian immigrants Anarchists Accused of murder Tried and convicted Weak evidence Judge says the must be guilty because they are anarchists. |
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Plessy v. Ferguson |
Declared segrigation to be consitutional. |
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Dates of WWI |
1914 - 1918 |
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Homestead act |
For a $10 registration fee, an individual could file for a homestead - a tract of public land available for a settlement. |
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