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People for Final Exam Flashcards

(20 cards)

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Ida Tarbell

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Photographer, criticized
Rockefeller’s Oil company, let to laws like the Antitrust Act to break monopolies.

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Upton Sinclair

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Author of The Jungle, criticized
the meat packing industry, led to Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Acts.

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Jeannette Rankin

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Became the first woman elected to Congress.

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Booker T Washington

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  • Accepted segregation “for now,” believed in time it would go away.
  • Founded Tuskegee Institute - school for african american youth.
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W.E.B Dubois

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  • First Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard
  • NAACP director of publicity & research
  • Started the NAACP official journal, The Crisis
  • Impatient Washington’s cooperation approach
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John Hay

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Author of the open-door policy

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Woodrow Wilson

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supported the United States entering the League of Nations as one of his “fourteen points”

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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opposed the joining of the league of nations because he feared it would restrict Congress’s power to declare war; would take away congress’s ability to make decisions for the country.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt believed in involved government and social programs. Solutions: Alphabet programs, fireside chats, bank vacation. Wanted to put people at ease so they would spend money again. Also wanted to create jobs and social support programs.

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Herbert Hoover

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Hoover believed in laissez faire (hands off) government that stayed out of the economy. He
also supported big business. Supported tariffs. Solutions: Trickle down economics: Tax breaks for business owners in hopes that they would pay
their employees more with the extra money they were making.

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Douglas MacArthur

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MacArthur believed in an invasion of China/use of nuclear weapons

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Harry S. Truman

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the North, and Ngo Diem in the South. MacArthur believed in an invasion of China/use of nuclear weapons while Truman wanted to limit war, so he fired him
Many people, mostly college students, opposed the war because of access to uncensored footage as well as an unclear objective as well as issues with the draft

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Malcom X

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Used a violent approach to end segregation.

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Lyndon Johnson

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Great Society: funded by tax hikes on higher incomes, prioritized federal spending on social programs, increased regulation of business, and appointed judges who favored judicial activism.

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Ronald Reagan

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Reagan Revolution: across the board tax cuts, prioritized federal spending on military and cuts in domestic spending, decrease regulation of businesses, and appointed judges who favor judicial
restraint.

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Richard Nixon

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Watergate Scandal

17
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Jacob Riis

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Photographer. Depicted horrible living conditions in the city

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John Scopes

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Defied anti-evolution law by teaching evolution in Biology class. Arrested and put on trial–showed a sharp divide in religion and science

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George Kennan

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Creator of the Containment Policy

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Thurgood Marshall

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Lead attorney for NAACP in Brown case. First African American S.C. justice