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28 Cards in this Set
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Guilded Age
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Name applied to post Civil War America to describe the corruption and greed that lurked below below the surface of industrial society.
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Factory Conditons
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Unsafe, Crowded, and dangerous.
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USS Maine
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Part of Spanish American war. Got blown up.
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Yellow Journalism
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News paper stories that featured sensationalized reporting.
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Spanish American War
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War declared by the U.S. on Spain to protect U.S. investments and to help Cuba overthrow Spanish rule.
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Muckrakers
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Nickname given by President Theodore Roosevelt to progressive journalists in the early 1900's who exposed political and social evils.
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Eugenics
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Forcing sterilizaton.
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Margaret Sanger
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Started a Birth Control clinic.
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Teddy Roosevelt
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The 26th president, 1901-09. Governor of NY, 1899-1900; McKinley's vice president, 1901; succeeded to presidency on McKinley's death. Served in Cuba with "Rough Riders." Progressive candidate 1912.
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Suffrage
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Right to vote.
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Social Darwinism
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Theory, proposed in the late 1800's, that society progressed through competition, with the fittest rising to the positions of wealth and power.
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Causes of World War I
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Archduke or Assassination
Nationalism Imperialism Militarism Alliances Lusitania Zimmerman |
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Industrialization
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Shift from hand work to machine work.
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Alliances
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Friends.
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Nationalism
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Sense of pride or loyalty to a nation.
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Imperialism
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Practice of extending the power of a nation by direct territorial acquisition of colonial empires.
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Militarism
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Glorification of armed strength and aggressive military preparedness.
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Lusitania
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A passenger liner ship that was blown up by a U-boat.
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Document that showed that Germany was trying to establish a military alliance with Mexico.
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War of Attrition
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Civil war strategy of wearing down the confederates through constant attack.
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League of Nations
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an international organization to promote world peace by Wilson.
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Temperance
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Attempt to curve of lessen the number of drunk people.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Gave all his money to Libraries and schools.
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John Rockefeller
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Owned a oil company.
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Upton Sinclair
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Owned a meat packing Industry.
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John Muir
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Conservationist.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Head of Austria-Hungary. He was assassinated in Serbia.
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Trenches
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Military strategy.
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