History Midterm

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John D. Rockefeller

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Early leader of the oil industry who formed Standard Oil Company.

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Ida Tarbell

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This muckraker helped to expose the corrupt practices of the standard oil company.

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Andrew Carnegie

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A Scottish-born steel industrialist who made a fortune in the steel industry. He sold his company to J. P. Morgan and donated money to different public causes, namely libraries.

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Jacob Riis

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This Danish immigrant exposed the poverty of the cities in his book entitled How The Other Half Lives.

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Commonwealth v. Hunt

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In this Massachusetts Supreme Court case, the paths for unions to form were opened.

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William H. Taft

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Foreign policy is known as "dollar diplomacy".

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Samual Gompers

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The founder and first president of the AF of L.

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16th Amendment

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This legislation provided for the government’s right to lay income tax on it’s citizens.

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AF of L

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known as the American Federation of Labor. Unions put together that grew steadily in power and size.

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Bull Moose Symbol

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symbol of the progressive party.

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Molly Maguires

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a secret society organized by the miners in the eastern Pennsylvania coalfields.

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Leon Czolgolz

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He assassinated President McKinley in 1901.

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Pooling

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When companies agree to charge the same price for the same product. companies

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Roosevelt Corollary

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This addendum to the Monroe Doctrine called for the U.S. to be the police force for the western hemisphere.

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Immigration Restriction League

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This was founded to put pressure on congress to establish legislation for the purpose of restricting immigration.

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Archduke Ferdinand

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Archduke who was assassinated in June 1914.

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Jane Adams

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This female reformer created a settlement house in Chicago in 1889 to help the immigrant poor.

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Lusitania

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British luxury liner sunk by the Germans in 1915.

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Hull House

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the house in which Jane Addams used to welcome newcomers with a home.

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Fourteen Points

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a noble list that applied in the 1900s, the ideals of a nation’s founders. A Declaration of Democracy for the world.

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Justin Morrill

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Congressman from Vermont who sponsored a bill in Congress to turn over public land for higher education.

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Sedition Act

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Legislation passed placing fines and/or imprisonment for anyone speaking out against the government.

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Niagra Movement

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organized by W.E.B. Dubois in 1905 to demand African-Americans get their equal right.

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Selective Service Act

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Legislation passed in 1917 requiring the registration of all males 20-30 for military service.

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W.E.B. Dubois

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Founded the Niagra Movement in 1905.

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Warren Harding

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president from 1921 to 1923.

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James Buchanan Eads

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built the bridge across the Mississippi which took seven years.

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Joseph Pulitzer

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This newspaper editor of the New York world used yellow journalism to help incite the war with Spain.

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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Massachusetts Republican Representative who drew up a bill that allowed the federal government to see that there were fair elections. also believed in Mahan’s message.

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Rough Riders

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This military group was formed by Theodore Roosevelt at the outset of the Spanish American War.

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Populist Party

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Demanded sweeping legislative reforms by the farmers such as the graduated income tax and the direct election of US Senators.

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Teddy Roosevelt

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This future president was very critical of McKinley’s refusal to go to war with Spain in 1897.

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James Weaver

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As the Populist Party for candidate in 1892, I pushed a platform that was very progressive for my time in history.

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17th Amendment

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this legislation provided for the direct election of senators. Amendment to the constitution calling for direct election of US Senators.

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William Seward

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I was a bold, ambitious Irish merchant who built one of the first department stores in America with the help of James Bogardus.

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J.P. Morgan

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Born to wealth he was trained in London off of his fathers bunk. His swash-buckling in the money world led people to call him a pirate.

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Booker T. Washington

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He founded Tuskegee Institute in 1881 to train African Americans in farming and mechanics.

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Matthew Vassar

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This education reformer helped to establish the first all women’s college in America.

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Interstate Commerce Commission

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has the power over pipelines, express and sleeping car companies, bridges, ferries, and terminals.

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Dawes Act (1887)

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it was an attempt to “Americanize” the Indians by dividing up the reservation land and assign each family a 160-acre farm.

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19th Amendment

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the amendment that gave the women the privilege to be first-class citizens.

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David L. George

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Prime minister of Great Britain who was part of the Big Four.

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Temperance Movement

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to discourage the use of intoxicating liquors.