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Trust Busting

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breaking up large corporate monopolies (“Trusts”)

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Monopolies

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these were enabling political corruption to proliferate (both parties); the progressive movement “crack down” on them (successfully)

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Conservation

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support for environmentla causes (safeguarding forsts and water sources ); one of the three Cs in Roosevelts Square Deal

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Roosevelt Regarding Natives and African Americans

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did not like Natives at all and only supported black individuals but did not support their rights as a group

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Samuel Gompers

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founded the AMerican Federation of Labor AFL

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Upton Sinclair

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“muckraker” who wrote “The Jungle” (a scathing indictment of the meat packing industry); this book led to TWO laws being passed

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Jacob Riis

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photographer of “How the Other Half Lives”

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Theodore Roosevelt

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preseidnet who supported progressive causes (sometimes to the dismay of his fellow republicans)

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William Jennings Bryant

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leading figure of the populist movement

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Willaim EB DuBouis

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from massachusetts and an affluent family; talented tenth; belived that the upper 10% of african americans should support the whole community to uplift others; no like Booker T

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Booker T. Washington

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from alabama and poor; gave the “atlanta compromise” speech; wanted black uplift but advised not to push too hard

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

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incident in NY (1911) that led to modern public facilites have permanently unlocked fire/safety exits

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Who are the allied powers?

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british; france; russia and US

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Who are the central powers?

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germany, austria hungary, ottomans and italy (biut they switched sides)

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When/Where was the Armistice done?

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Nov. 11 at 11am at the Forest of Compiegne

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Assasination of Franz Ferdinand

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event that triggered the “July Crisis” and ultimately the war

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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emperor of Germans; responsible for war because he declared war on Britain and france at first opportunity

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Zimmerman Telegram

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the reason why the US ultimately entered WWI (in spite of WIlsons reluctance to do so) in 1917

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The Three Horrors of Modern Warfare

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trench warfare; chemical warfare and machine guns

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Women and African Americans

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two groups of americans who take advantage of the many open jobs in major factories in northern and mid western US cities

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The (First) Great Migration

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official name for the large moevment of Black Americans to Northern and mid-western cities during the war (to escape sharecropping)

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Soviet Union

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new nation that emerges from the Russian Revolutions of 1917 that did not get along with the allied powers and ignited the “Red Scare” throughout the Western world

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Why did the US not joing the League of Nations

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the senate did not approve it

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Communists

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group of people the “Federal Bureau of Investigation” was originally created in order to mointor and keep an eye on

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Coolidge
relatively popular (but did not seek reelection in 1928); easily summed up as a "Pro Business REpublican" (the party has been ever since)
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Hoover
his presidency was ruined by his inability to mitigate the impact of the "Great Depression" ; named slums after him
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Harding
died during his first term in 1923; infamous for MANY scandals, but most notalble was the Teapot Dome Scandal; possible the worst president; had the "Ohio Gang"
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Scope Trial
highly publicized trial in tennesee in 1925 that brought attention to the issue of whther or not the theory of evolution could be taught in american public school classrooms
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Greenwood District
affluent all Black neighborhood that was nearly destroyed during the infamous "Tulsa Raec Massacre" in 1921; nicknamed "Black Wall Street"
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Harlem Renaissance
black/intellectural/self determination movement based out of an affluent black neighborhood in Manhatten; one of its key figures was Langston Hughes
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Sacco and Vanzetti
two italian american immigrants (also anarchists) tried and convicted of robbery and murder in Braintree MI (though most modern historians believe the Jury was biased against them)
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Leopold and Loeb
two college students murder a 14 year old Bobby Franks for no other reason that to pull off the perfet crime and prove they were beyonf conventional morality
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18th Amendment
criminalized the maunfacture and sole of alcohol; starts Prohibition
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21st Amendment
repeals the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
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Overall economics in 1920s
booming economy
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Flappers
name for white women in major cities who listened to jazz; wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and engaged in various other types of behavior seen as "unladylike" outside of cities
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Lost Generation
term for the post world war 1 generation of young adults who appeared to cope with lifes hardships less effectively than previously; be the first named generation
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Jazz
popular form of African American music; enjoyed by urban white even in southern cities
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Gold Standard
basis for all major western (and most other) global economies for much of modern history; previously opposed by populist mvment
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Black Tuesday
nickname for the official start of the depression
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When did the depression officially begin?
Oct 29 1929
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Dust Bowl
end result of the "unwise agricultre practices" of the 1920s; large scale, multiregional ecological disaster
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Social Security Act
provided a "retirement salary" for ALL US citizens upon their retirement; still in effect today
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Emergency Banking Act
establihes the FDIC to ensure the bank accounts of citizens in the case of insolvency brought on by future "panic" and "bank run"
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Fair Labor and Standard Act
meant to solve all lingering labor issues (becomes law in 1938); no child labor, minimum wage, 40 hr work week
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Works Progress Administration
WPA ; largest of the Alphabet Agencies (oversaw MANY programs primarily associated with public works projects)
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Civilian Convservation Corps
hired unmarried young men on Conservation project; responsible for the reforestation of large parts of the country
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Federal Writers Project
unemployed writers and journalists interviews living people for historical purposes (important because this is how we know more about what slavery had been like before 1865)
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Hoovervilles
unofficial nickname given to the massive shantytown where th elarge homeless population lived in AMerican cities in 1930s
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Bonus Army
massive protest movement (US soldiers and WW vets); tehy went to washington DC to protest (constructed the largest shantytown)
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Tuskegee Expirement
unfortunate government sponsered expirement conducted on misdirected (unaware) black men in th esouth from 1932 to 1937; erodes the trust of the African American community in the US gov
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Business Plot
name of a poorly planned (but not attempted) coup detat against the US gov; involved "captains of industry", fascist sympathizers and former protestors from the bonus army; when exposed their "dictator" betrays them and exposes the entire plit to congress but NO ONE is charged

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