Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
31 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
international trade fair, the first exposition of its kind in the United States, held in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
|
Philadelphia Centennial
|
|
|
distributing the world’s first mail-order catalog
|
Montgomery Ward
|
|
|
Sears, American merchant who developed his mail-order jewelry business into the huge retail company
|
Sears, Roebuck
|
|
|
established in 1905 by Harry Davis made it the model for their rapid proliferation throughout the U.S. By 1910 they numbered 10,000, fueling a huge demand for silent films and projection equipment and providing the impetus for the development of the modern motion-picture industry
|
nickelodeon
|
|
|
is a German Expressionist vampire horror film
|
Nosferatu
|
|
|
Payment to government official to get some type of economic gain
|
Graft
|
|
|
in U.S. politics, a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state.
|
Political Machine
|
|
|
sprawling industrial towns and cities in the Northeast, the growing upper class of the Gilded Age mimicked the high society of their former mother country in dress, morality, and mannerisms
|
Victorianism
|
|
|
ounder of the birth-control movement in the United States and an international leader in the field. She is credited with originating the term birth control.
|
Margaret Sanger
|
|
|
international anarchist who conducted leftist activities in the United States from about 1890 to 1917.(female)
|
Emma Goldman
|
|
|
American woman suffrage leader who introduced the first equal rights amendment campaign in the United States.
|
Alice Paul
|
|
|
American silent-film star who was the first screen vamp who lured men to destruction. Her films set the vogue for sophisticated sexual themes in motion pictures and made her an international symbol of daring new freedom.
|
Theda Bara (Cleopatra)
|
|
|
the 1st provided power of Prez
|
Teddy Roosevelt
|
|
|
seeks to encourage improvements in the legal profession, to ensure the availability of legal services to all citizens, and to improve the administration of justice
|
American Bar Association
|
|
|
wrote THE JUNGLE
|
Upton Sinclair
|
|
|
abour organizer and Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920.
|
Eugene V. Debs
|
|
|
Theodore Roosevelt (served 1901–09) of his personal approach to current social problems and the individual. It embraced Roosevelt’s idealistic view of labour, citizenship, parenthood, and Christian ethics.
|
Square Deal
|
|
|
Threatened miners to stay open with military
|
Coal of Strike of 1902
|
|
|
no more RR monopoly
|
Northern Securities Case
|
|
|
to curb concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition
|
Sherman Antitrust Act
|
|
|
food/drug conditions monitored
|
Pure Food and Drug Act
|
|
|
tree hugger
|
Giffor Pinchot
|
|
|
mastery a body of knowledge- Experience-technology very helpful.
|
John Dewey
|
|
|
Education more interested in student-centered
|
Charles Eliot
|
|
|
She is probably best known as the founder of Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in North America.
|
Jane Addams
|
|
|
Niagra movement- speech against Booker T. Washington. He established the NAACP
|
W E B Dubois
|
|
|
Women should be able to progress in Business and Politics.
|
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
|
|
|
18 amendment
|
prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.
|
|
|
19 amendment
|
women right to vote
|
|
|
Progressive Party of 1912
Nicknamed the Bull Moose Party from a quote by Theodore Roosevelt. When asked whether he was fit to be president, |
"Bull Moose" Party
|
|
|
leading advocate of the League of Nations, for which he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize for Peace
|
Woodrow Willson
|
