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Tammany Hall

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1786 NYC democratic political hall

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Garveyism

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Garveyism is an aspect of black nationalism that refers to the economic, racial and political policies of UNIA-ACL founder Marcus Garvey 1914

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Harlem Renaissance

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intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, literature, theater, politics and scholarship in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, 1920s and 1930s, Langston Hughes, Cotton Club

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Plessy v Ferguson

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1896 separate but equal, didn’t violate 14th ammendment

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sharecropping

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gave african-americans and poor whites land but put them in debt

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Presidential Reconstruction

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1865 after Lincoln’s assassination Andrew johnson pardoned confederate states and crated “black codes”

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Minstrelsy

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theatrical shows depicting african americans that often had white actors “corking up”

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Reconstruction Amendments

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13,14,15 amendments
-abolish slavery
-citizen if born in US
-Blacks could vote

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States

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laissez-faire capitalism

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an economic philosophy of free-market capitalism that opposes government intervention

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robber barons

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powerful 19th-century American industrialists and financiers who made fortunes by monopolizing huge industries

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The Populist Party

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created by farmers in 1892 to call for reforms to government corruption and corporate greed, no monopolies

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Knights of Labor

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1869, labor union, 8hr workday, equal pay, abolish child labor

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Haymarket Riot

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1886, Violent confrontation between police and labor protesters in Chicago that dramatized the labor movement’s struggle for recognition

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“Cross of Gold” speech

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1896, by William Jennings Bryan, running for president and wanted gold standard

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vertical and horizontal integration

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Horizontal integration is when a business grows by acquiring a similar company in their industry at the same point of the supply chain. Vertical integration is when a business expands by acquiring another company that operates before or after them in the supply chain

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welfare capitalism

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capitalism that includes social welfare policies and/or the practice of businesses providing welfare services to their employees

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Social Darwinism

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people are subject to natural selection

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Lewis Hine

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photographer who exposed the hardships of child labor and city life

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The New South

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industrialize the south after civil war, reform society without slave labor

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Gibson Girl

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the “new woman” educated and independent, drawn by Charles Gibson

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yellow journalism

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journalism appealing to emotions

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Panic of 1893

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a national economic crisis set off by the collapse of two of the country’s largest employers, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and the National Cordage Company, stock market panic

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How the Other Half Lives

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Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s

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Dawes Severalty Act
passed in 1887 under President Grover Cleveland, allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands
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WEB DuBois
sociologist and activist for blacks, nonapologetic attitude
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accommodationism
rests on the belief that government and religion are compatible and necessary to a well-ordered society
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Homestead Act
To help develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land
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NAWSA
The National American Woman Suffrage Association, February 18, 1890
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temperance movement
tried to limit drinking
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Wounded Knee Massacre
was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States, 1890 South Dakota
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Open Door Policy
in 1899 and 1900 for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity.
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The Roosevelt Corollary
The corollary stated that not only were the nations of the Western Hemisphere not open to colonization by European powers, but that the United States had the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in those countries
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initiative and referendum
allow citizens of many U.S. states to place new legislation, or to place legislation that has recently been passed by a legislature on a ballot for a popular vote
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Eugene V. Debs
socialist and president of American Railway Union, Pullman Strike
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Dollar Diplomacy
the policy of using the economic power or influence of a government to promote and protect in other countries the business interests of its private citizens, corporations,
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Lusitania
civilian ship sunk by German sub before WW1
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Committee on Public Information
or the Creel Committee was an independent agency under the Wilson administration created to influence public opinion to support the US in World War I
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Red Scare
During the Red Scare of 1919-1920, many in the United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist ideology.
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Immigration Act of 1924
limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
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"return to normalcy"
was a campaign slogan used by Warren G. Harding during the 1920 United States presidential election. a return to conservative values and a turning away from President Wilson's internationalism
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The Scopes Trial
high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. 1925
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Fordism
the system of mass production that was pioneered in the early 20th century by the Ford Motor Company or (2) the typical postwar mode of economic growth and its associated political and social order in advanced capitalism.
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Philippine-American War
1899-1902 concern that the Filipinos were incapable of self-rule, and fear that if the United States did not take control of the islands, another power (such as Germany or Japan) might do so.
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Vaudeville
a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance

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