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leading organization lobbying for Prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century.
key component of the Progressive Movement; it was strongest in the South & rural North, drawing heavy support from Protestant ministers and their con
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Anti-Saloon League
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Nickname for investigative journalists who wrote exposes on government & business corruption.
Geroge Creel was a progressive muckraking journalist.
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Muckrakers
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innovations in automobile manufacturing demonstrated how industrialists could boost profits by reducing manufacturing costs.
built his first car in a shed behind his house in 1896
made headlines when he introduced $5.00 daily wages for 8-hr work days.
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Henry Ford
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German foreign minister Arthur Zimmerman sent telegram to Mexico stating that in the event of war with the U.S., Germany would help Mexico recover Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if Mexico started a borderland war with the U.S. and would urge Japan to att
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Zimmerman Telegram
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re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the 16th Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%.
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Underwood Tariff
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Buying on credit
slogan used for playing the stock market because it was seen as a means for making quick profit.
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EZ Credit
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Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, 1900 and 1908
a lawyer and the 41stUnited States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson
He ran as an anti-imperialist, finding himself in alliance with Andrew Carnegi
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William Jennings Bryan
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Aug. 26, women can vote
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19th Amendment
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small percentage of American women (5%)
introduced short skirts, smoking, dancing, short bobbed hair
mostly college students who were considered liberal
usually tied to speakeaies
they were testing the limits of the 20’s
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Flappers
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progressive muckraking journalist who led the Committee on Public Information (CPI); they handed out propaganda posters, pamphlets & films which they translated into multiple languages to reach the nation’s immigrant population.
used “four minute men
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George Creel
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Wisconsin (progressive state) Governor
led his state to adopt “initiative,” referendum and recall.
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Robert La Follette
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19th century tabloid journalists & newspapers that reported sensationalist stories with strong emotional component, fueled public anger against Spanish.
got its name from competing “Yellow Kid” comic strips in leading New York newspapers.
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Yellow Journalism
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1915-1930, 1.5million blacks (over 10% of black Americans) left the south for the north and west due to increased violence they were experiencing.
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Great Migration
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passed in 1906 during Roosevelt’s second administration
he reinstated the power of Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to regulate railroad monopolies.
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Hepburn Act
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joined w/Wells-Barnett & Addams to create National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909
NAACP demanded immediate end to all forms of racial discrimination which overturned Jim Crow Laws in 1950s&1960s.
it was his vision & N
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W.E.B. DuBois
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heir to Austro-Hungarian throne
assasinated w/his pregnant wife on June 28, 1914
their deaths triggered WWI
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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known as "Wick's Bill"
statute enacted by U.S. Congress addressing perceived evils of child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods manufactured by children, thus giving an expanded importance to the constitutional clause giving
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1916 Child Labor (Keating-Owen)
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2 Italian immigrants arrested in Massachusetts for murdering a payroll guard in 1920.
Poor Italian immigrants and some intellectual supported the two men.
Growing xenophobia & electrocution for the men were results in 1927.
The two me
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Sacco-Vanzetti Case
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U.S. forestry service director who allowed timber companies to harvest trees in designated areas, the new regulations enraged both preservationists, who wanted all economic development to cease, and Western businessmen who demanded unlimited access to fed
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Gifford Pinchot
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Influential historian & author who talked about America’s greatness; expansion made great.
1893 he published, The Significance of the Frontier in American History that mentioned that the American frontier was “closed,” the U.S. was “settled.”
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Frederick Jackson Turner
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Required Germany to pay reparations
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Treaty of Versailles
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initiated by Taft to encourage U.S. investment in Latin America to ensure U.S. economic dominance over the region.
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Dollar Diplomacy
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Most prominent African American leader of the Progressive Era
Embraced self help as the best way to end poverty among African Americans.
Born Virginian slave in 1859, moved to West VA with his family to work in a coal mine, attended Virginia’s Hampto
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Booker T. Washington
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African American author best known for her 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
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Zora Neale Hurston
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World War I battle fought between September 12 - 15, 1918, involving the American Expeditionary Force and 48,000 French troops under the command of U.S. general John J. Pershing against German positions.
U.S. Army Air Service (which later beca
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Battle St. Mihiel
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set of notes written carefully by secretary of state John Hay
laid the foundation for the Open Door Policy, a U.S. sponsored, non-binding international agreement that kept the Chinese market open to all foreign nations.
1st set of Open Door
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Open Door Notes
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To improve the flow of needed materials for war, this board ranked industries so that those most critical to the war effort received raw materials ahead of nonessential wartime businesses.
Ex: steel for guns & ships; railroad cars were commonly us
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War Industries Board
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cruise around the world to test engines in ships & show off U.S. flag
ships both left & returned in 1907
ships were painted white
they found weaknesses but proved the ships could take long trips
people aboard the fleet built relationships w/people aro
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Great White Fleet
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substantial amendment to the Monroe Doctrine by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904.
Roosevelt's extension of the Monroe Doctrine asserted a right of the United States to intervene to "stabilize" the economic affairs of small states in the
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Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
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The peak was in 1924
the march in D.C. took place in 1926
during 1920's the KKK was no longer black only anti-black it was also anti-immigrant & againt any non-Protestant religion
4-5% of American population
many politicians were klan members, and
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Ku Klux Klan
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3 different phases
America, France and Britain vs. Germany Allies moved the Germans back about 15 miles and the French about 20 miles.
This helped gain us Argonne Forest (American) and Meuse (French).
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Battle of the Meuse-Argonne Forest
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all soldiers had to take an intelligence test to determine what role they’d play in the war (officer or box unloader).
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Selective Service Act of 1917
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1917 & 1890’s; she had 3 reasons why women should vote
1) to address on issues affecting women (health)
2) to address moral issues (prostitution, gambling)
3) to deal w/recent immigrants (women will counterout the immigrant
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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