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| ___________ had a wide spectrum of believers. They wanted to impose order on the chaotic world of the 1900's They wanted to curb the most glaring injustices. They wanted to reform the system, not a reconstruction of it. They were optimistic and believed individuals were naturally inclined to better themselves. Did not believe growth happened alone. They believed human and government intervention was necessary. Through science man is capable of understanding the world, and if he can understand it, he can improve it. |
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| Progressives believed that human growth could not happen alone and that human and government ____________ was needed for growth. |
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| Progressives believed that through _________________ man was capable of understanding the world and that if man understood the world he was capable of improving it. |
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| Progressives believed concentrations of wealth/power lead to corruption and injustice which lead to a ______________ mentality. |
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| Progressives held the belief that new money did not think of _______________ which was a interlocking web of relationships which stated that a suffering person was a reflection of society not individuals. People need to make sure that no one is suffering. |
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| ____________ were a circle of journalists that published exposes on trusts and political machines, concentrated circles of power and wealth. They showed how inefficient, unproductive monopolies and closed political circles were. |
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| _____________ was a set of programs that involved wealth congregations who on weekends would aid/uplift poor, urban areas. They believed in collected redemption and were Catholics that promoted social cohesion. |
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| ___________ were places that tried to improve behaviors and living conditions by changing one's environment. |
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| __________ was a no married woman who devoted her whole house to teach bums coking cleanliness and manors. She was involved with settlement houses. |
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| ____________, such as those in the medical association, had trust placed in them by progressives because they were thought of as experts. |
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| _______________ were the next type of women who were upper middle class, college educated, single/divorced, married with fewer children, who have more appliances because of technology and did things outside of the home with new free time. |
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| __________ were activist women who came together for political causes and held a maternal role over society. (Child Labor Laws, Prohibition, Women's Suffrage) |
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| The _____________ gave women the right to vote and was pushed forward by clubwomen. |
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| ________ developed in America out of the progressives who felt that there were two ways to fix the current system: They had to 1 replace the current system or 2 tweak and polish the existing one. |
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| _____________ was the first socialist candidate who got a large number of votes for a third party candidate. He organized labor strikes and was strong with ethnic groups among others. |
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| The ______________, referred to was wobblies, were a radical group of people who thought that any change through elections were far too slow. They are responsible for a large number of strikes. |
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| _____________ are where people get elected as groups, not individuals. People in the group were supposed to differ in political beliefs. |
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| City governments experiments with ______________ who was an outside expert for one specific thing and was not supposed to be partisan. |
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| ___________ is when a group of people need to get signatures and a law is placed before the state after they are collected. |
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| A __________ is when a people get a certain number of signatures and has a possibility to get a law revoked. |
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| ______________ was a progressive governor of Wisconsin who was charismatic, well received, intellectual. |
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| Roosevelt came up with committees to start ____________ because he thought that trusts could dictate an economy and felt that it should be an independent force. Roosevelt believed in the free market and had foreign competition get rid of trusts. |
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| The ____________________ occurred during the winter in which Roosevelt mediated the dispute. The miners did not get a good deal but they survived. The govt stopped intervening on the sides of corporations. |
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| United Mine Workers Strike of 1902 |
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| ___________ put out new laws banning child labor, got rid of pool of workers, and put out the drug and food act. |
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| __________ were put in place by Woodrow Wilson to increase the worker pool and the health of future workers. |
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| _____________ came about due to the bad situation with food and medicine during Woodrow Wilson's term. It eventually leads to the creation of the FDA. |
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| _____________ came on a federal level to override what the states wanted to do. |
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| _____________ was created to regulate national bank and not run them, but has yet to be audited by "The Most Transparent President." |
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| The _____________,enacted in may 1927, sent 3 million men into the army during world war one. The Wilson administration enacted it. (It was not popular.) |
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| The ________________ was made to plan the economy to make the right amount of right materials. It was the central board for the wartime economy. |
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| The _________________ was created to prevent strikes. It met with the war industries board and union leaders. It guaranteed benefit with temporary conditions. After the war ended they dissolved along with the agreements they created. |
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| ____________ was a migration of blacks of about half a million to the north of the US. They went to work in the factories and were an untapped labor supply. |
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| There were many __________ in America at this time. The number one number were the Irish who were followed in second by Germans. They did not want to fight in the war because the Irish hated the English and the Germans were rather fond of Germany. |
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| __________ opposed the war efforts because the Quakers oppose war and the Evangelicals opposed this war. |
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| ___________ opposed the war for the most part due to what was thought to be maternal instinct. |
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| ___________ opposed the war because it was fought worker vs worker. |
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| The _________________ tried to flood America with pro war propaganda to sell the war to the American people. |
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| Committee on Public Relations (CPI) |
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| ____________ encouraged journalists to turn in other journalists. |
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| The _____________ imprisoned people who opposed the war. The post master could sensor mail. Socialists took a heavy hit from that. |
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| The _______________ imprisoned people for opposing the president, his administration, the war. It targeted the Socialist movement. Caused Big Bill Haywood to flee and imprisoned others. |
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| ___________ was a journalist who America fled because of the Alien and Sedition acts. |
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| The ____________ brought everything to a complete stop in that city. Was put down by US marines. It was workers vs the military. |
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| Seattle General Strike (1919) |
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| The ____________ caused rampant crime and had to be put down by the national guard. |
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| The Marines could be called in the _________. |
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| The National Guard can be called in by the _________. |
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| The ______________ put things to a halt because steel is needed and nothing can produced without it. Caused Class warfare and racial situations to come to the surface. |
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| Steelworkers Strike (1919) |
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| ____________ increased dramatically in 1919 due to the number of strikes. The black veterans did not want to follow Jim Crow laws. |
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| The _____________ lasted a week. 40 died. 500 were injured. Blacks who refused to obey the Jim Crow laws were targeted and lynched. |
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| The _________ happened because of the Bolchevic revolution. It made people very nervous. People were scared of potential revolution. It caused individual states to pass own versions of alien and sedition acts. There were general thoughts that people within the country were not 100% American. |
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| __________ ratcheted up fear during the Red Scare. Compiles a list of 6,000 radicals. Everyone was arrested. It was a hue embarrassment. There was no hard evidence. |
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| _________ is fearing and resenting certain groups who are usual foreign, minorities, or those who do not conform to the dominate culture/political groups. The belief in being 100% American. |
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| The _________________ was created out of Nativism and used national census data to only allow 3% of a particular nation to emigrate. The 3% was 3% of the census numbers. It was created to keep the balance that they had in 1910. It was to stop the changing makeup of the country. |
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| Emergency Immigration Act |
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| The ___________ had the same premise as the Emergency Immigration act. It lowered the immigration rate to 2%. It set the baseline at 1980 census levels. It completely blocked off China. This stops a huge flow of immigration. |
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| National Origins Act (1924) |
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| In the wake of the panic of nationalism the ___________ forms. Was not directly related to original group. The 1915 Birth of a Nation film sparked membership as well. |
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| ________ belonged to the oldest family in MS. Famously refuted Klansmen's arguments and he was a big help in getting rid of the second rendition of the KKK. |
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| The main source of the economy was ________________. The assembly line was perfected. It made its products affordable. Suburban communities formed. Helped boom construction industry. |
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| During the 20's there were many _________________. Radio was invented. Radio changed the culture. Plastics were easier to afford. Caused influx of affordable consumer items. It changed the culture. |
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| The 20's was the first decade of ________________. It is a culture of consumption. People define themselves by what they purchase. They purchase discretionary items. What begins as a luxury grows into a necessary. It distinguishes class. |
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| Consumer culture breeds new industry of __________. most firms today originated in the 20s. |
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| _________________ are newspapers that spread around the US and are read in more than just local places. |
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| Out of the mass circulation of newspapers comes ____________ when mass circulation was combined with the radio. |
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| ____________ becomes dominant mindset for Protestant groups. They INTERPRETED the writings in the bible and sought to have a hybrid of religion and science. |
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| ________________ does not interpret the bible. They think the bible is literal. They believed that the miracles actually happened and that there is not a hybrid of religion and science. |
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| _______________ laws attempt to move south to modern centralized public high school. They wanted to convert one room school houses to modern systems. |
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| The ______________ was the trial between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan essentially. It was a battle of whether or not to teach Evolution in public school. John Scopes who was a biology teacher wanted to teach evolution. |
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| ______________ represented scopes. Most famous defense attorney and atheist at the time. Represented labor and made argument students could not control behavior. Won trial. |
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| ___________ assisted the Prosecution and was the most famous Christian, anti evolutionist at the time. |
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| The intellectuals and artists of the 1920's were known as _______________. IT produced some of the best artists, intellectuals, and authors. |
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| ___________was a journalist who criticized the culture. |
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| ___________ was an author who searched for origins of community. He wrote about the uncertain faith of old values in the new world as well as the values of the old south in the new south. |
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| __________________ is an artistic movement that was about the uncovering of African roots of the current black culture as well as the blending of roots with the new culture. |
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| _____________ was a black writer who wrote their eyes were watching god. It was about growing in an all black town. |
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| The largest domestic origin of the great depression was caused by the auto, construction, and technology industry which caused a _______________. |
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| Lack of Economic Diversity |
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| The per capita income was too top heavy. The industrial workers and farmers got left behind. It caused an ______________________. |
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| The _____________ caused a major problem. The banks crashed on two levels (large and small). Big banks crashed and the credit froze, people could not pay back small bank loans. |
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| An external problem was ____________________. European domestic powers could not produce their own goods. America covered it but as the countries increased their internal structure, they needed less imports from America. Countries like Britain did not need the imports and Germany could not afford the imports. |
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| Another external problem was an _________________. US was loaning money to Germany who paid that money to Britain who in turn paid back their debt to America. The freeze of the American banks collapsed this cycle. |
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| ____________ was a response to the Great Depression. He could resonate and empathize with the American people. |
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| _________________ was a emergency measure that closed banks pending federal approval. It protected big banks from being dragged under by the smaller banks. |
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| The ___________________ was a response to over population and low prices. Its goal was to stop over population and raise farm prices. To set production limits |
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| The ___________________ came about through a need for more people working for higher wages. It wanted to set price floors. They wanted minimum wage, maximum hours and no child labor. Its biggest failure was written by industrialists. |
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| National Recovery Administration (NRA)- the one that sucked |
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| The ________________ gave power to impoverished part of the country. It set up a system of dams that takes care of flooding issues, making cheap hydro electric power and then to sell it back cheaply. |
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| The ________________ policed the stock market. Peopled wanted the stock market regulated. |
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| The _______________ is the oldest, most well connected families. They accused Roosevelt of being anti-capitalist. Members were wealthy. |
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| ___________ wanted old age pensions. He thought it would leave a pool for new workers and people could not hoard their pensions. It failed to get traction, but opened up new ideas. |
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| ____________ was a popular radio program. He was soft on big banks and a pawn in an international money powers. He was also anti-semetic. |
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| ______________ was the former senator and gov of LA who passed his own New Deal-like programs. He passed public works program. He created the share our wealth society which advocated a crude form of redistribution of wealth. He was a threat to Roosevelt and was assassinated. (Conspiracy?) |
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| The _____________________ was a huge tent of skilled, unskilled, black, and women workers. It was more militant and more strike prone as compared to the AFL. |
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| The ___________________ forced business to recognize unions and negotiate with them. |
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| National Labor Relations Board |
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| ____________ had 3 forms of relief. One the government funded immediate relief for elderly who could not care for themselves. The second The elderly in the future had a fund that was automatically paid into to draw from. The third there was an employer funded unemployment benefits that would pa monthly in the fund. |
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| The _______________ was a larger more expensive jobs program. The scope was broad and was partially a public works program. It built new infrastructure. |
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| Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
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| The _______________ caused workers, blacks, elderly, poor, and socialists to all support the democrat in the upcoming election. |
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| Roosevelt participated in __________________ by diluting the power the Supreme Court by adding more. This was to dilute the check that they had on his power. He felt that checks and balances should not quite apply as much to him. |
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| Roosevelt's wife gave political positions and power to blacks thus creating a ________________ to which she would refer to for a reading on the black community. |
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