Flashcards in Midterm Deck (40)
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Theodore Roosevelt
Asst. Sec. of Navy, also known as "Mr. progressivism", became repub VP in 1900, became Pres. in 1901 after McKinley was assassinated.
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industrialization
growth of factories- technological inventions (telephone, automobiles, electricity, airplanes, etc.) factory production, transportation/communication= expanded markets.
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who were some industrialists?
JP Morgan (banks)
John D. Rockefeller (Standard oil)
Andrew Carnegie (steel)
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who was William McKinley?
progressive repub who ran against populist democrat William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election and won w 7.1 million votes to Bryans 6.5 million
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who win the 1896 election?
William McKinley
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Battle of San Juan Hill
TR and his rough riders stormed uphill to secure high land surrounding Spanish forces in the Spanish American war.
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urbanization
growth of cities due to industrialization.
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George Armstrong Custer
American Colonel who died at Little Big Horn (he also had a horrible mustache)
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KKK
Klu Klux Klan- group of racists who treated anyone who wasn't white (mainly blacks) as inferior.
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Food and Drug Act of 1906
TR's idea, preventing manufacture, sales, or transportation of adutered or poisoness goods
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imperialism
the use of diplomatic or military force to extend a nations power and enhance its economic interests, often by acquiring territory or colonies and justifying such behavior w assumptions of racial superiority
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Jane addams
woman progressive who created the hull house
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hull house
place created to address the everyday needs of the working poor
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battle of little bighorn
native Americans were pushed to Oklahoma reservations during the westward movement, this was their way of fighting back
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suffrage movement
women trying to gain more rights specifically voting rights
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taylorism
Frederick Winslow taylor& labor system based on detailed study if work tasks,intended to maximize efficiency and profits for employers, "organize and rationalize"
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1893 panic/ depression
economic crisis, stock market crashed, banks closed, unemployment rose
from this cane the progressive era
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progressivism
"glass half full", optimistic, middle class repubs
ex: Frederick Winslow Taylor w taylorism, John Dewey w new education, muckrakers, such as Upton Sinclair
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Upton sinclair
muckracker who wrote the jungle, which revealed how nasty the food industry was
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election of 1896
McKinley won 7.1 million votes to Bryan's 6.5
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square deal
TRs 1904 election gimmick- claimed to control the 3 c's "corporations, conservation of natural resources and consumer protection"
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George dewey
american naval hero, his squadron defeated the Spanish warships in manilla bay in the Philippines
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Alfred t mahan
influence of seapower upon history
internationalism
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strenuous life
TRs speech about health
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Andrew Carnegie
steel industry
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Eugene v debs
railway union, against Pullman company organized Pullman strike, socialist
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Spanish imperial brutality
developed plan to liberate Cuba and the Monroe doctrine
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populism
"glass half empty", pessimistic, farmers workers democrats
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new freedom
speeches given by Woodrow wilson
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Frederick Jackson turner
created the frontier thesis
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muckrackers
journalists who exposed corruption and abuses
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trust-busting
TRs idea to break up monopolies
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Thaddeus stevens
radical repub. confederate states should be viewed as provinces, supported the abolition of slavery and racial equality
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Jim crow laws
separate but equal
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new nationalism
TRs speeches
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IWW (wobblies)
unskilled workers. Eugene debs fought for them
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compromise of 1877
deal made to resolve the disputed election of 1876, Hayes won, marked the end of reconstruction
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john Dewey
progressive teacher who devised the new education plan
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american federation of labor
founded in 1881, as a national federation of trade unions made up of skilled workers
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