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62 Cards in this Set
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What is progressivism?
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In the early 20th century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life.
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What were the goals of progressivism?
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Protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvment, creating economic reform, and fostering efficiency.
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What were the muckrakers?
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Was one of the magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900's.
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What was referendum?
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Was a procedure by which a propposed lefislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people.
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What was initiative?
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Was a procedure by which a legislative measure can be originated by the people rather than by lawmakers.
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What is recall?
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Was a procedure for removing a public official from office by a vote of the people.
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What is the 17th amendment?
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Is the amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in the 1913, that provides for the election of the U.S senators by the people rather than by state legislatures.
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What was The Jungle?
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It was a book written by Upton Sinclair he wrote about the sickening parts of the meatpacking industry and the conditions.
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What is NAACP?
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Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People and organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality.
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What is NAWSA?
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The National American Women Sufferage Association an organization founded in 1890 to gain voting rights for women.
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What is NACW?
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National Association of Colored Women a social service orgaization founded in 1896.
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What was the Spanish-American War?
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They had went to war because the Americans thought that the spanish blew up there ship called the U.S.S Maine.
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What was the American – Filipino War?
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The Filipinos were led by Aguinaldo and the U.S. thought almost the same role Spain had played imposing its authority on a colony that was fighting for freedom.
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What is the Boxer Rebellion?
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A1900 rebellion in which members of a Chinese secret society sought to free their country from Western influences.
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What were Goals/Reasons for Imperialism?
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Desire for military strength, thirst for new markets, and belief in culural superiority.
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What was the Open Door policy/Notes?
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Messages sent by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 to Germany, Russia, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan, asking the countries not to interfere with U.S. tradin rights in China.
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What was Monroe Doctrine?
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A policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the affairs to the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe in 1823.
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What was the Platt Amendment
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Series of provisons that in 1901 the U.S. insisted Cuba add to its new constitution, commanding Cuba to stay out of debt and giving the U.S. the right to intervene in the country and right to buy or lease Cuban land for naval and fueling stations.
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What were the Long Term causes of WWI?
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Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, and Alliance system.
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What were the Short Term causes of WWI?
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The assaination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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What were the New weaponry of WWI?
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New weapons were machine guns which were refined and they newer ones were the tank and the airplane.
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What is Isolationism?
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A policy of pulling away from involvment in world affairs.
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What was nativism?
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prejudice movement against forgienoborn people.
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Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
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Italian immagrants who were charged and arreseted with ribbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in south Braintree.
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What was the Rise of the KKK?
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It was a group that was devoted to 100 percent Americanism. They believed in keeping blacks "in there place", destroying saloons, opposing unions, and driving Roman Catholics, jews, and forgien-born people out of the country. They reached a membership of 4.5 million members.
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what was the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?
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Aset of reulations, enacted by congress in 1932 that raised taxes on imports to record levels in order to protect American business against forgien compettion.
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What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
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A law enacted by congress in 1930, that established the highest protective tariff in the U.S.
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What is Darwinism?
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It is a set of movements and concepts related to ideas of transmutation of species or evolution.
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What was a Double Standard?
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It was a set or principles granting sexual freedom to men, then women. It required women to have more strict standards and behaviors.
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What was the Harlem Rennaissance?
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It was a literary and artistic movemnet celebrating African American culture.
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Who was Duke Ellington?
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He was one of America's greatest composers. He was a jazz pianist, and played at the Cotton Club.
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What was Prohibition?
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The manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages were illegal.
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What was the 16th amendment?
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It authorized income tax without apportionment
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What was the 17th amendment?
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It was the direct election of senators.
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What was the 18th amendment?
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It was the right of citizens to vote cannot be declined or adridged.
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What was the 19th amendment?
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It granted women the right to vote.
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What was a speakeasies?
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They were underground hidden saloons and night clubs were you were able to get alcohol.
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What was a bootlegger?
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It was a name for a smugglers' practice of carrying liqiour in the legs of boots.
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What was the gerneral trend of the economy during the 1920's?
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The economy was doing good, Automobile was becoming very good. Big business were beging to expand.
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What was the trend of politics in the 1920's?
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In the 20's Calvin Coolidge was runnning for president and when he withdrew from the election Herbert Hoover began to run.
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What was the Bonus army?
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A group of WWI vetrans and their families who marched on Washington D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of a bonus they had been promised for their military services.
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Who was Herbert hoover?
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A Republican president. He was elected when Calvin Coolidge withdrew from the election. He was the persident during the Great Depression.
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Who was Calvin Coolidge?
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A new president that fit into the pro-busniss spirit of the 1920's very well.
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Who was Warren Harding?
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He was Ohio senator who assumed presidency in 1921. He was described as good natured.
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What was "Return to Normalcy"?
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It was the United States presidential candidate Warren Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920 to return to the way of life before World War I.
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What is the Federal Home Loan Bank Act?
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a law, enacted in 1931, that lowered home mortgage rates and allowed farmers to refinance theri loans and avoid forclosure.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
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an agency established in 1932 to provide emergency financing to banks, life-insurance companies, railroads, and other large businesses.
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Boulder Dam.
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a dam on the Colorado River--now called the Hoover Dam, that was built during the Great Depression as part of a public-works program intended to stimulate business and provide jobs.
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Speculation.
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an involvement in risky business transactions in an effort to make a quick or large profit.
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Buying On Margin!
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the purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest.
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Eleanor Roosevelt.
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neice of Teddy Roosevelt, wife of Franklin Roosevelt. Eleanor as first lady urged the president to take stands on controversial issues. public speaker. was interested in child welfare, housing reform, and equal rights for women and minorities.
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Frances Perkins.
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became America's first female cabinet member. as secretary of labor, she played a major role in creating the Social Security system & supervised labor legislation.
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Mary McLeod Bethune.
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an educator who dedicated herself to promoting opportunities for young African Americans. head of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration.
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Brain Trust.
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FDR picked a ream of carefully picked advisors a selected group of rofessors, lawyers, and journalists.
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FDR!
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was known as FDR. the 2-term governor of New York and a distnat cousin of the former president Theodore Roosevelt.
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New Deal.
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President Franklin Roosevelt's program to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression, focusing on relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform.
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Bank Holiday.
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one day after taking office, roosevelt shut down all the banks in that nation. those that were in good shape would reopen again, those that weren't would be shut down. thos that were ok, were given help.
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Glass-Steagall Banking Act.
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the 1933 law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to protect individuals' bank accounts.
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FDIC.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. an agency created in 1933 to insure individuals' banks accounts, protecting people against loses due to bank failures.
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Social Security Act.
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a law enacted in 1935 to provide aid to retirees, the unempolyed, people with disablilities, and families with dependent children.
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Works Progress Administration.
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an agency established as part of the Second New Deal, that provided the unemployed with jobs in construction, garment making, teaching, the arts, and other firleds.
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Dust Bowl.
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the region including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, & New Mexico, that was made worthless for farming by drought & dust storms during the 1930's.
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