Us History Unit 2

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Progressivism

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A broad philosophy based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition.

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Muckrakers

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To search for and expose real or alleged

corruption, scandal, or the like,especially in

politics.

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The Jungle

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Novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.

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Prohibition

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The legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, storage in barrels, bottles, transportation and sale of alcohol including alcoholic beverages.

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Suffragists

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Fought for women to have the right to vote.

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NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, fought for African American civil rights.

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Great Migration

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The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.

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Lusitania

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A British ocean liner, holder of the Blue Riband, and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. It was blown up in 1915 by a German U-boat.

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Zimmermann Telegram

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A 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire offering a military alliance with Mexico, in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.

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War Industries Board

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A United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies. The organization encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency and urged them to eliminate waste by standardizing products.

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Treaty of Versailles

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One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

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Red Scare

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The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the first one was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.

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Washington Treaty 1921

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A treaty among the major nations that had won World War I, which by the terms of the treaty agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction.

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Sacco-Vanzetti

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Italian-born anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States in 1920 and were executed. Heavy evidence showed that they did not do it.

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Scopes Trial

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A legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

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Ku Klux Klan

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A secret organization of White Protestant

Americans, mainly in the South, who use

violence against Black people, Jewish people,

and other minority groups.

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Marcus Garvey

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A staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.

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Black Thursday

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Oct. 24, 1929, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 11% at the open in very heavy volume, precipitating the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Hoovervilles

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Shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after the president at the time.

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Bonus March

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Congress voted to reward World War 1 veterans with a "bonus" of 1000 to be paid in 1945. When the great depression hit they showed up in masses in Washington. General MacArthur was sent in to get rid of them with force.

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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A public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal.

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Tennessee Valley Authority

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A corporation created by the federal

government in the Great Depression to

promote the economic development of the

Tennessee River and adjoining areas.

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Agricultural Adjustment Administration

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A United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops.

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Neutrality Acts

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Laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars.

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Pearl Harbor

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A harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii:

surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base

and other military installations December 7,

1941. It caused America to join world war 2.

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Midway

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A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor.

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D-Day

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June 6, 1944, the day of the invasion of western Europe by Allied forces in World War II.

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Japanese Internment

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The forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry to camps in the interior of the country.

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Yalta Conference

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A meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down.

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Hiroshima

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An atomic bomb was dropped on this city, ending World War 2.