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| Having a pleasing or showy appearance that hides something of little worth |
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| Political organization that used legal and illegal methods to ensure their canidate won elections |
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| corrupt political leaders that used bribery and favors to win elections. |
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| What happened to politics in the late 1800s? |
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| Politics was corrupt, voters were bribed, and ballots only had one party's canidates. |
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| gives jobs to loyal supporters. |
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| Pedleton Civil Sevice Act (1883) |
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| Set up merit system that today affects 90 percent of jobs. |
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| reformers who worked to improve social and political problems. |
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| Areas to reform in the big cities. |
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| Health and Education, Working Conditons, Crime, Disease, Poverty, Government |
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| Journalists who wrote about corruption in order to bring about reform. |
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| What did Muckrakers expose? |
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| Unfair Business procedures, child labor, racial discrimination, and slum housing. |
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| What was city planning supposed to accomplish? |
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| Public parks, control growth, building codes, street paving, sanitation, settlement houses, etc. |
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| Called for No poorly lit, airless, houses. Must have running water and Vetilation. |
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| Education reforms (late 1800s) |
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| Kindergartens, school attendence laws, problem solving skills, and improved training for doctors. |
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| 17[sup]th[/sup] amendment |
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| Choose candidates not leaders |
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Formal request for action
-Recall-Remove an official
-Initiative- propose a new law
-Referendum- approve or reject laws |
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| Political program(designed by Roosevelt) To treat every citizen fairly |
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| sole economic control of a business or product |
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| Cannot create monopolies or trusts that restrain trade. |
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| A formal meeting to talk about, and settle disagreements. |
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| a legal arrangement where groups of several companies are under one board of dirctors to eliminate compitition |
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| Allowed cities to expand into suburbs, included elevated railroads, subways, cable cars and streetcars. |
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| started in the mid 1800s when a stronger steel was available making more city space |
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| was rapid in the 1800s from both immigration and emmigration. |
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| houses that served as neighborhood immigrants lived, terrible conditions. |
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| Neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, and recreation. |
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| Co-fouder of the hull house. |
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| The immegrant restriction league |
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| tried to to lower the number of immigrants, puting rules in place like they had to read and write. |
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| banned Chinese people from immigrating for 10 years. |
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| Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives |
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| showed the terrible lif in tenements to improve living conditions. |
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| Pendleton Civil Service Act |
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| set up a merit system controlled by the Civil Service Commission to moniter government jobs. |
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| tried to improve economic conditions of African Americans. |
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| Banned the manufacture sale or transportation of mislabeled or contaminated food or drugs. |
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| 16[sup]th[/sup] amendment |
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| allowed the federal government to place a tax on peoples income. |
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| also called the progressive party for Roosevelt to run over. |
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| The Jungle, Uptown Sinclair |
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| showed the horrors of Chicago's meatpacking industry. |
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| avoiding involvement in the affairs of other countries. |
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| practice of building an empire. |
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| New Territories(late 1800s) |
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| Alaska, Hawaii and other island nations. |
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| industrialized because of commodore Matthew Perry, trade treaty in 1853 |
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| areas where foriegn nations could control trade and natural resources. |
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| all nations have equal trade access with China. |
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| Chinese who resented foriegners(Fists of righteous Harmony) attacked foriegners, but were defeated. |
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| To link the atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and cut 8000 miles off the journey. |
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| warned European nations not to colonize or interfere in the Americas any more. |
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| US would police afairs in the western hemisphere to keep Europe from intervening. |
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| 1909 influence latin american governments through economic interventions, through U.S business investments and loans. |
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| 1912 Wilson view on the Americas |
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| Didn't aprove of business involvement in foriegn afairs. Wanted to promote democracy, sent troops to Haiti and the Dominican republic to restore peace and protect U.S interests. |
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| Causes of the Mexican revolution |
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~landless and poor
~foriegn companies in mexican economy
~Diaz's harsh ruel over Mexico |
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Militarism
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| Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary |
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| France, Great Britain, Russia |
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| Was killed by Gavrilo Princip, which sparked WWI |
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| Great Britain, France, Italy, USA, Russia, Serbia etc. |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire |
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| Germany's plan to quickly defeat France by going throug Belgium. |
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| New Battle tactics and weapons. |
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| Less hand to hand combat. Machine guns, tanks, warplanes, and submarines came into play. |
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| The area between trenches. |
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| When neither side advances or retreats. |
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| War front in France with Germany. |
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| A Great Britain ship sunk by German U-boats. |
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| 1917 because of the brocken sussex pledge and Zimmerman Note. |
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| Committee on public Information |
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| Formed to raise public support for the war effort, they used four minute men, movie stars, and other propaganda. |
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| required men between the age of 21 and 31 to register to be drafted. |
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| Were given more combat and even some officer roles. |
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| Volunteered by handling the Army telephone service, nurses, ambulence drivers, joining the Red Cross, and taking industrial and clerical jobs. |
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| Provided money to the Alied powers for WWI |
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| People could grow their own vegetables so the farmer's crops could go to the war effort. |
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| How did WWI affect the work force. |
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| Many people left for war giving the people left behind more power over working conditions and pay. |
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| Russia signed a peace treaty, causing Germany to focus their troops on the Western Front. |
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| Second Battle of the Marne |
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| Destroyed the German ability to attack again. |
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| the truce that offically ended the war. |
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| Wilsons plan for rebuilding and organizing postwar Europe and for avoiding future wars. |
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| Right of people to decide their politiacal status. |
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| international congress of nations formed to settle disputes and maintain peace. |
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| U.S, Great Britain, France, and Italy. |
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| To make Germany take full blame, and pay for reparations for WWI |
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~Germany pay $33billion in reparations
~Return the Alsace-Lorraine region to Frace
~Break up Ottoman and Austria-Hungarian Empires.
~Form/Freed/Restored Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Finland, Latuvia, and Lithuania
~Formed the League of nations. |
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| promise to defend other countries. |
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| Secret illegal clubs that served alcohol during prohibition. |
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| founded the UNIA (United Negro Improvement Association) |
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| first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| Womens progress in the 1920s |
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| Right to vote, more jobs such as nursing, teaching, and secretaries. |
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| Sound was added to movies. |
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| limited the number of immigrants from any country to 3 percent |
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| stopped Jappenese immigration completely and limited other immigration even more. |
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| economic pattern in which business goes through growth and decent. |
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