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9030550945Ida Tarbellcrusading journalist who wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company a critical expose that documented John D. Rockefeller's ruthlessness and questionable business tactics.0
9030573187socialist muckraker who wrote The Jungle (1906), in which he hoped to indict the capitalist system but instead helped convince Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act (1906), which cleaned up the meat industry.Who was Uptown Sinclair?1
9030595059They were anti-monopoly, knowledge and education is very important (natural and social science).Describe the Progressives.2
9030613290Journalist-- that tried to show the bad part of the world (corrupt)What is a muckraker?3
9030624134Yellow journalismHow did mass communication change?4
9030642719***support of ordinary people urban factory/farmers v. big money business --laws to protect workers, solidarity among all workers, laws regulating the economy.What was the goal of populism?5
9030666172people wanted to use silver as currency.What was the gold standard?6
9030674871A newspaper writer in Nebraska was writing about populist.... decided to use an allegory -scare crow= farmers needed brains -tin man= industrial workers need hearts (sad workers) -lion= represents the courage of William Gennings Bryant -munchkins= the general population -good witch= the north -wicked witch= the west -flying monkeys= indians -Dorothy= west -wizard= west -emerald city= opportunity of cities -wicked witch dies with water= the west was in desperate need of waterWhat is the significance of the Wizard of Oz?7
9030748359Conservation= use it but make it available Preservation- do not interfere at allWhat is the difference between conservation and preservation?8
9030764857Teddy RooseveltWho is credited with national parks?9
9030773918"he kept us out of war" election of 1916What was the motto of Wilson that led to him winning?10
9030847498women were saying alc. was bad and ruining families. people urged for women to have the right to voteWhat was the women's temperance union?11
9030878075prohibited the sale, transportation, and manufacture of alcohol; part of rural America's attempt to blunt the societal influence of the cities, it was called the "Noble Experiment" until it was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment (1933).What was the 18th amendment?12
9030886199Triangle shirt waste= more building and fire safetyWhat was a source of progressive reforms?13
9030893328influential black leader; his "Atlanta Compromise" speech (1895) proposed blacks accept social and political segregation in return for economic opportunities in agriculture and vocational areas. He received money from whites and built Tuskegee Institute into a powerful educational and political machine.Who was Booker T. Washington?14
9030900445Black intellectual who challenged Booker T. Washington's ideas on combating Jim Crow; he called for the black community to demand immediate equality and was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Color People (NAACP).Who was W.E.B. DuBois?15
9030908340black artistic movement in New York City in the 1920s, when writers, poets, painters, and musicians came together to express feelings and experiences, especially about the injustices of Jim Crow; leading figures of the movement included Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Duke Ellington, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes.What was the Harlem Renaissance?16
9030916849Dolar Diplomacy= the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.What is Taft important for?17
9030923731"Bread, land, and Peace"What was Lenin's motto?18
9030933791Federal control over water resources in the west --Hoover DamWhat was the national reclamation act?19
9030942661a secret German proposal to Mexico for an alliance against the United States; Germany offered to help Mexico get back territories it lost to the United States in 1848. Britain alerted the Wilson administration to the plan, and Mexico refused the idea.What was the Zimmerman Telegram?20
9030950484wanted to limit the amount of work time. Group of bakers were against this and workers said they have the right to form a contract with their boss to establish how long of hours they want to work.Describe the court case Lochner v. New York.21
9030976191Law was passed limiting the amount of hours people could work. Women workers in laundry industry. they argued that women were unfit to work long hours because they have to have children and care for families. (society needs healthy women) because of this the women did not winDescribe the court case Muller v. Oregon.22
9031111687idea that we weren't establishing colonies but continuing to trade between U.S. and Asia.Describe open door in Asia?23
9031124646it linked the Atlantic and Pacific (now US has two ocean navy)What was the Panama canal?24
9031139914It limited the idea of free speech--speech that harms people is NOT OKAYWhat is the importance of Schenck v US?25
9031154821Vertical cities (growing upward)How did cities begin to develope differently?26
9031160384NYPD very effective at catching criminals, very cruel he invented the mugshot, he also began profiling criminalsWho was Thomas Berns?27
9031171631Photographer who showed the "other half of life" took pictures of poor peopleWho was Jacob A. Reese?28
9031181739head of NYC sanitation cleaned the cities and transformed the lives of americans.Who was George Warring?29
9031209034helped immigrants become ajusted to american life, provide basic skills for womenWhat are settlement houses?30
9031220718children were not working but actually going to schoolHow did the middle class change?31
9031257272British passenger liner sunk by a German submarine in May 1915; among the 1,200 deaths were 128 Americans. This was the first major crisis between the United States and Germany and a stepping-stone for American involvement in World War I.Lusitania32
9031264948Italian radicals who became symbols of the Red Scare of the 1920s; arrested (1920), tried, and executed (1927) for a robbery/murder, they were believed by many to have been innocent but convicted because of their immigrant status and radical political beliefs.Sacco and Vanzetti33
9031268883law that regulated the food and patent medicine industries; some business leaders called it socialistic meddling by the government.Pure Food and Drug Act 190634
9031273769granted women the right to vote; its ratification capped a movement for women's rights that dated to the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. Although women were voting in state elections in 12 states when the amendment passed, it enabled 8 million women to vote in the presidential election of 1920.Nineteenth Amendment 192035
9031279688ended World War I; it was much harder on Germany than Wilson wanted but not as punitive as France and England desired. It was harsh enough, however, to set stage for Hitler's rise to power in Germany in the 1930s.Treaty of Versailles (1919)36
9031282909killed 30 million worldwide disease that spread from dort Riley across US borders was really bad and affected even really healthy peopleDescribe the Spanish Flu?37
9031286712insure US would not be locked out of trading with chinaOpen door policy?38
9031302123US didn't join, peace agreement (prevent war)what is the league of nations?39

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