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imperalism, progressive, ww1
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11th Grade
03/08/2009

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Who was the first modren president and what does that mean?
Definition
Theodore Roosevelt; a president with a clear foreign and domestic policy.
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What was TR's domestic policy?
Definition

The three C's

  • Control of coporations
  • Consumer Protection
  • Conversation of natural resources
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Control of Corporations:
Definition

1 C of TR's domestic policy

  • He was the "trust buster" 
  • believed that goverment is inchared of the country, not BIG BUSINESS
  • His plan left honesty companies alone, and broke up/ regulated violators
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Consumer Protection:
Definition

1 C in TR's domestic policy

  • passed Meat Inspection Act
  • he was influenced after reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle 
  • and then passed the Pure Food and Drug Act
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The Jungle
Definition
A book writen by Upton Sinclaire, a journalist, who went undercover as a meat worker and was horified at the things that we saw in the plant.
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Conversation of natural resources:
Definition

1 C in TR's domestic policy

  • Was the first planned management of naturak resources to prevent destruction of neglect
  • stemmed from TR's love of the wilderness
  • created the The Newsland Act and the Forest Reserve Act
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What was TR's foregin policy?
Definition

The Big Stick Policy ("speak softly and carry a big stick)

  • speaking softy = use deplomancy
  •  carrying a big stick = use military force when needed

 

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Bad neighbor policy
Definition
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TR's nobel peace prize
Definition
Recevied when we negotiated peace between Japan and Russia (really they were still not peaceful- see WW1)
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Who was the real "trust buster?"
Definition

William Howard Taft

  • during four years as POTUS brought 90 suits (TR= 44 in 7.5 years as POTUS)
  • busted Standard Oil Co., and US Steel Corp.
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"The Dollar Dipolmancy"
Definition

WHT's foregin policy

  • invested money in foregin markets to keep forgin competitors from doing the same
  • "Why fight when you can buy it?"
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What were "Progressives"
Definition
a large group of unorginized reformers who often worked independent of each other to seek a solution to a social problem.  They were urban people, middle class and were professionals (journalist, soical workers, educators, and clergy).
Term

What were the progressive's target areas?

 

Definition
  1. Muckrakers
  2. Race
  3. Social gospel
  4. Women's Rights
  5. Cities
  6. Consumer Protection
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Social Gospel

 

Definition

One target area of the progressives

 

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Women's Rights
Definition

One target area of the progressives

Women got the right to..

  • Expand rights to make a will
  • Earn and dispose of their own wages
  • Equal guardianship of chrilden
  • vote
  • urban reform
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Who is Florence Kelly?
Definition
The National Consumers League
Term
Jane Adams
Definition
The Hull House
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Education
Definition

one target of the progressives

  • They were infulenced by the German model of schooling
  • emphasized questioning instead of memorization of facts
  • made changes in American Colleges
  • wanted to get immigratns out of factories and into classrooms
  • wanted education to be free, public and universal
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Muckrakers

 

Definition

one of the target areas of progressives

  • magazine journalist who invesigated and exposed the corrupt side of buiness and other spical probelsm of public life in the early 1900's
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Consumer protection
Definition

a target area of the porgressives

  • Caveat emptor: "may the buyer beware"
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Race
Definition

a target area of the progressives

Term
The Progressive Era
Definition
an era of change that stated in ___ and ended with the start of WW1 and the roaring 20's
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"New Freedom"
Definition

Thomas Woodrow Wilson's domestic policy.

  • it favored small enterprises, unregulated, un mompolized markets
  • not regulation but framentations of big industrial companies (through heavy enforcements)
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What were the three privilages in the "Attack the triple wall of privilege" that TW started?
Definition
1. tariffs, banks, and trusts
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The attack on tariffs
Definition

one part of TW's "attack on the triple wall of privilege"

  • created a new tariff bill:

-substantial reduction in rates on other import fees

-graduded imcome tax (16 arrangements)

Term
Attack on banks
Definition

one part of TW's "attack on the triple wall of privilege"

  • Federal Reserve Act (decentralized private baking under federal contorl)
  • created the federal reserve board
  • made it so that the amount of money in circulation could be smaller and increased as needed for the legitimate requriments of business
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attack on trusts
Definition

one part of TW's "attack on the triple wall of privilege"

  • created the Federal Trade Commission, which crused monopolies
  • Clayton Anti-trust Act- an expansasion of the Sherman Anti-trust Act
  • prohibited corporations from acquiring another
  • Workman's Compensations Act (dcisability insurace)
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New direction in forgein policy
Definition

TW...

  • hated imperislism
  • got rid of the dollar dipolomancy
  • and tried to help with the Mexican revlouion (which got the US on the bad side of Germany eventually leading the US into WW1)
Term
World War I (The Great War)
Definition
6 April 1917- 11 November 1918
Term
Causes of WW1
Definition
  1. Nationalism
  2. Imperalism
  3. Militarism
  4. Alliance Systems
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Nationalism

Definition

One cause of WW1

A devotion to the intrest and culture of one's country.

  • created a competiton and rivalries amoung nations
  • ethnic grouns sought independence while under protection of nations
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Imperialism
Definition

one cause of WW1

The disare for new materials and manufactured goods from other lands

Term
Militarism
Definition

one cause of WW1

The development of armed forves and their use as a tool for diplomancy

  • started a news arms race
  • Germany becomes the strongest military force on the European continet and seeks to expand Naval power
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Alliance Systems
Definition

one cause of WW1

Major defense alliance creates a blance of power

Term
Triple Entiry
Definition

Who the US allined with

included France, England and Russia

Term
Triple Alliance
Definition

The central powers

Included Germany, Italy, and Austris-Hungary (and later the Ottman Empire)

Term
The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and Sophie
Definition

They were the "power keg of Europe"

  • The "black hand" terrorist orginization along with Gavriol Princip killed them while they were on a parade
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Sinking of the Lusitania
Definition
  • kind of pused the US into WW1
  • killed 128 Americans (1198 total people)
Term
The Zimmermann Note
Definition
A cause for the US to enter WW1
  • German foregin minister to Mexico sent a note to the Mexicans that said

"With victory, Mexico will be rewarded with Texas, New Mexico, and Arzona from helping Germany win the war"

  • Made American mad.
  • The note was found burnt...did it really exist or did the goverment create it to go into war??NO ONE KNOWS.

 

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Trench Warfare
Definition

an advancement in warfare during WW1

  •  "No mans land" between the trenches
  • Trench foot- a huge killer during the war

 

Term
Posin gas
Definition

an advancement in warfare during WW1

  • was the first biologicial warfare
  • mustard gas was the most popular

 

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Other advanceds in warfare
Definition
  • German U-boats (submarines)
  • machine guns
  • Tanks
  • Aerial combat (dog fights) 
  • blimps
  • grenades
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USA entered because...
Definition
  • Sinking of the Lustianis
  • Renewal of unrestriced subverson warface by Germany
  • Zimmermann note
  • Overthrow of Czar Nichols II
  • to make "the work sae for democarcy"
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Total war
Definition
when all industry and resources are used to produce things for the war
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