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| What kinds of problems did progressive reformers focus on? |
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| Urban, government, and business problems. |
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| What style of writing was used by journalists like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolf Hurst? |
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| What was the role of muckrakers? |
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| They exposed problems and corruption. |
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| What book did Upton Sinclair publish and what was it about? |
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| The Jungle: The horrors of meat packing industry in Chicago. |
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| What other areas of society did muckrakers urge reform for? |
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| Politics, big-business, and urban |
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| Describe the 3 new voting processes enacted during this time? |
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| INITIATIVE: measure or issue could be placed on ballet in state election. REFERENDUM: accept or reject measures that state enacted. RECALL: remove unsatisfactory officials from their jobs. |
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| What group was formed to fight for women suffrage and who were some of the key people involved? |
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| National Woman Suffrage Assosiation: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony |
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| What region in the US first allowed women to vote? |
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| What amendment gave women the right to vote and whtn was it ratified? |
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| Descrbe this person's contribution to American expansion in trade and land: Matthew Perry |
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| He went to Japan and signed the Treaty of Kanagawa |
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| Why did people continue to support the Temperance Movement during the late 1800s? |
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| Because they saw it as a threat to family and society |
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| What did the 18th Amendment do? What was it also known as? |
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| It was illegal to make, transport, or sell alcohol in the US: Prohibition Act |
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| How many indictments did Theodore Roosevelt obtain against trusts and what was his nickname as a result? |
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| Describe the ways Roosevelt aided in the conservation of natural recources. |
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| US Forest Service & the National Conservation Commision |
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| Why did President Taft first veto Arizona becoming a state? |
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| He didn't want them to be able to recall their judges. |
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| When was Arizona finally granted statehood? |
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| a national policy of noninvolvement in world affairs |
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| moving to new territories; expanding |
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| excersizing economic and political power over weaker nations |
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| Descrbe this person's contribution to American expansion in trade and land: William Seward |
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| He purchased Alaska: "Seward's Folly" |
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| Descrbe this person's contribution to American expansion in trade and land: Queen Liliuokalani |
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| She was the queen of Hawaii but gave up her throne so there wasn't a fight. |
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| Descrbe this person's contribution to American expansion in trade and land: John Hay |
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| He made the Open Door Policy with China which is freely trading between spheres of influence. |
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| What did President Theodore Roosevelt do to show off America's naval power? |
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| He did the tour of the Great White Fleet. |
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| Who controlled Cuba for so many years? |
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| What event caused the US to declare war on Spain? |
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| The 'Maine' was sunk and we blamed the Spanish. "Remember the Maine" Became a rallying war cry. |
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| How did America eventually get a lease to build the Panama Canal? |
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| They helped Panama get independence from Columbia. |
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| A narrow strip of land connecting to bigger bodies of land. |
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| What were some of the problems workers faced while building the Panama Canal? |
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| Disease mosquitos carried (malaria & yellow fever), hard working conditions, it was hot, damp, swampy, and there was rugged terrain. |
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| What was the purpose of the Roosevelt Corollary? |
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| Being able to intervene in the affairs of Latin America with economic problems. |
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| A feeling of intense loyalty to your country. |
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| People built up their armies because they felt threatened. |
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| A temporary peace agreement (Nov. 11, 1918) |
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| What event sparked World War I? |
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| The assasination of the Arch Duke, Frans Ferdinand. |
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| Name the countries that made up the Central Powers. |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire |
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| Name the countries that made up the Allied Powers. |
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| Britain, France, and Russia (later to include Italy, US, and Japan) |
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| What German made weapon prevented supplies from reaching Great Britain? |
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| Describe the events that led to World War I. |
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| The Lucitania sunk, the Zimmerman Telegram, the Russian Revolution, and the Repeal of the Sussex Pledge. |
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| How did both sides try to gain American support for the war? |
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| What was the purpose of the Sussex Pledge? |
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| So that Germans would warn us before they attacked our ships. |
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| What were some new weapons introduced during the war? |
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| U-Boats, tanks, planes, gasses. |
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| What was the purpose of the Selective Service Act? |
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| To raise the army quickly |
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| What were some key battles American forces fought in World War I? |
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| Chateau-Thierry on Marne River, 2nd Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne |
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| Describe some ways Americans supported the war back home. |
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| Liberty Bonds, Victory Gardens, companies manufactured supplies, they rationed, and propoganda. |
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| What was the Great Migration? |
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| Tons of (But NOT ALL) African Americans moved to the North. |
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| Name the ways the US government controlled Americans against the war. |
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| The Espionage Act, the Sedition Act, and the Sabotage Act. |
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| Describe some of the principles that Wilson proposed in the Fourteen Points. |
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| new boundries, Leauge of Nations, new nations, national self-determination, international relations (free seas, free trade etc) |
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| Describe the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. |
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| Germany paid reperations, had to take all the blame, demilitarize, lose colonies, and also the Russian and Ausria Hungary were no longer empires. |
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| What country never signed the Treaty of Versailles? |
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| People believing there should be no government. |
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| Describe some things that demonstrated the growth of racism and fear of foreigners in the US. |
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| Sacco and Vanzetti, immigration quotas, the Red Scare, the Palmer Raids, the KKK. |
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| What was the biggest scandal during the Harding presidency? |
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| The Teapot Dome Scandal: Albert Fall |
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| What was the purpose of the Kellogg-Briand Pact? |
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| No fighting/Outlaw war "No fighting at breakfast" |
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| Define installment buying. |
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| Paying in small amounts over time. |
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| Describe the ways businesses tried to build better relations with their workers. |
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| What industries improved as a result of the growing automobile industry? |
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| Oil. glass, rubber, steel, and tourism. |
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| Describe the Harlem Renaissance. |
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| A time of the arts, acts, and culture of African Americans. |
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| Name some of the fads of the 1920's. |
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| gangsters, flappergirls, jazz, crossword puzzles, Ms. America, and dance marathons. |
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| What did the 21st amendment do? |
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| anti-prohibiton (repealed) |
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| What did the government pass in 1921 to start limiting immigration into the US? |
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| They passed the Emergancy Quota Act and the National Origions Act. |
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| The Scopes Trial was a debate over what issue? |
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| Teaching evolution in schools. |
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| An organized system of buying and selling shares. |
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| Define: Great Depression. |
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| A severe economic crisis. |
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| Describe some of the causes for the Great Depression. |
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| Drought, Banks Closing, stock-market, the growing gap between rich and poor people, and TOO MUCH BORROWED MONEY. |
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| What did Hoover do to help out the depression? |
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| What group marched to Washington DC demanding their promised payment? |
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| Why did people elect FDR over Hoover in the election of 1932? |
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| Hoover seemed cold and distant, they wanted someone who would act, and FDR seemed reachable. |
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| How was FDR able to relate to the public and how did he get their support? |
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| He was charming and confident, and he had fireside chats with the nation. |
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| What were the new laws that were passed during the Hundred Days and months thereafter called? |
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| The New Deal and the 2nd New Deal. |
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| Define: Social Security Act. |
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| A reform program that would help peoples individual identities. |
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| A program that provided jobs to young, unmarried men. |
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| What were some effects of the Great Depression on people, ecspecially families? |
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| More kids went to school, families split up, and women went to work. |
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| Storms took 30 million tons of soil from the Plains. |
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| What caused the Dust Bowl? |
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| Using new technology/over plowing unsettled the dirt and also the drought came. |
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| People moving place to place to pick fruits. |
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| What novel was written by John Steinbeck? |
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| What almost took away FDR's 1st and 2nd New Deal Programs? |
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| The Supreme Court rulings-Declared "Unconstitutional" (This was the cause for FDR's attempt at the 'Court Packing Plan'.) |
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