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39 Cards in this Set
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The Maine
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Feb 1898
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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First President of the Republic of Philippines
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Roosevelt: Panama: The Caribbean
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Teddy became Pres. after the assasintation of Mckinley (1901)
Beginning of Progressive Era Big Stick Diplomacy Panama Canal: $10 mil (1906-1914) |
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Progressive Motives: 18th Amendment
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Child Labor Laws- Keating Owen Act
Education Eugenics Ending Immigration Pure FDA Meat Inspection Act |
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Muckraking
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Ida Tarbell- targeted Standard Oil
Upton Sinclair- The Jungle Lincoln Steffen- political corruption Jacob Riis- How the other half live |
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Triangle Fire: Reform Agenda
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1911
caused laws to improve safety conditions and limit working hours for women and children |
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Campaign Slogans
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Mckinley "Full Dinner Pail"
Roosevelt "New Nationalism" "Square Deal" Wilson "New Freedom" (1912) "He kept us out of War" (1916) Harding "Let's return to normalcy" |
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Red Scare
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1919-1920
Attorney General Palmer, assigned J. Edgar Hoover to head what is now the FBI arrested hundreds of suspected radicals |
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Sigmund Freud
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psychoanalysis--conscious or unconscious
Advertisers were used to target pple to use their stuff |
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Organized Labor in the 20s
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United Mine workers
IWW Eugene Debs- socialist |
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Zimmerman Telegram
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1917
secret msg. from Germans to Mexico, if MX made some military moves than Germany would restore all the land the US took from MX Britain intercepted and told the US (to get us involved) |
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Central Powers
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Austria Hungry
Germany Turkey |
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Western Allies
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Great Britain
Russia US France Italy |
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1916 Election
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Wilson- Democrat "Kept us out of war"
Hughes- Republican Wilson won by a narrow margin |
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The Fourteen Points
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more capitalism (free trade)
unrestricted sea travel, free trade, arms reductions, and end to secret treaty Democracy Nationalism League of Nations- preserve peace and resolve conflict |
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C.P.I
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Committee on Public Information
govt. agency to promote pro war propaganda ran by George Kreel "Uncle Sam wants you" |
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Treaty of Versailles
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June 1919
required Germany to disarm, admit sole blame for the war, and pay massive reparations to the allies, and land reorganization |
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Spanish American War
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broke out in 1898 over US concerns for the Cuba independence movement. The US won the war gaining territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, and securing independence for Cuba
served as a powerful force onto the world stage |
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Anti- Imperialist League
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established 1898
to battle the US annexation of the Phillipines due to economic, legal, and moral grounds Liberals that believed in free trade, a gold standard, and limited government *William James opposed WIlliam Jennings Bryan *Mark Twain was the VP from 1901 until 1910 |
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Paradox of American Imperialism
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No one is ever free until the US says so
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Pragmatism
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willing to change or be persuaded
William James wrote a book on pragmatic very progressive idea judging the value of an action by assessing the results |
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Ash Can School
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School of Art
Naturalism Bellows (artist) |
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"Wobblies"
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Industrial workers of the world (IWW)
a radical labor organization founded in 1905, that advocated revolution and massive societal reorganization, it faded away around 1920 |
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Class backgrounds of the progressives
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middle class
Wasp |
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Woodrow Wilson's Presidency
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1913-1921
democrat "New Freedom" encourage democracy and capitalism worldwide Fourteen points & league of nations |
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Herbert Hoover
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1929-1933
conservative made only limited efforts to control the economic and social problems of the Nation |
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Harlem Renaissance
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1920s
black writers and artists produced plays, poetry, and novels that often reflected the unique African American experience Alain Locke (father of Harlem Ren.) Langston Hughes (poet) Louis Armstrong (Jazz) McKay, Hurston, Cullen-- writers |
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Eugenics: Scopes Trial
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selective breeding to weed out feeble mindedness
1925 Dayton, TN John T. Scopes Evolution theory a science teacher wanted to teach Claren Darlow- attorney for teacher W. Jennings Bryan- against attorney |
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Colonialism: Informal Imperialism
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colonialism- super impose way of life
informal imperialism- doing it in the name of "Help" even though we are still stealing- and if we don't succeed then we point the blame on someone else |
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Keating-Owen Act
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1917
first law against child labor laws illegal to employ children under 14 declared unconstitutional in 1918 bc it was said that Government should not regulate this |
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Roosevelt & Striking
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coal strike 1902
Mitchell was president of UMW Roosevelt intervened and got them higher wages and shorter hours |
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Marcus Garvey
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UNIA founder and advocated a mass migration of African Americans back to Africa
Garvey was convicted to fraud in 23 and deported back to Jamaica in 27 UNIA collapsed without his leadership |
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Tin Lizzies
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1924
Ford sold quickly $290 1924 model t 27 model a |
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Roosevelt Corollary
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1904
stated that the US not Europe should dominate the affairs of Latin America and that although the US had no expansionist intentions, any chronic wrongdoing by a latin american nation would justify US intervention as a global political power |
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Most Important Motivations for Progressive Period
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culturally
religions professions |
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Treaty of Paris 1898
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gave US the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico
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Platt Amendment
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1901
right to intervene in Cuba when saw fit US navel base in cuba |
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Sedition Amendment
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provided punishment for anyone using disloyal, profane, or abusive language in regard to the US govt. flag or military
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Espionage Act
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anti war activities= fines or imprisonment
barred periodicals from circulation by mail |