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1st semester U.S history, gilded age-great depression
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9th Grade
01/12/2010

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Gilded
Definition
Having a pleasing or showy appearance that hides something of little worth
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Plitical machine
Definition
Political organization that used legal and illegal methods to ensure their canidate won elections
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Bosses
Definition
corrupt political leaders that used bribery and favors to win elections.
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What happened to politics in the late 1800s?
Definition
Politics was corrupt, voters were bribed, and ballots only had one party's canidates.
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Spoils System
Definition
gives jobs to loyal supporters.
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Pedleton Civil Sevice Act (1883)
Definition
Set up merit system that today affects 90 percent of jobs.
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Progressives
Definition
reformers who worked to improve social and political problems.
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Areas to reform in the big cities.
Definition
Health and Education, Working Conditons, Crime, Disease, Poverty, Government
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Muckrakers
Definition
Journalists who wrote about corruption in order to bring about reform.
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What did Muckrakers expose?
Definition
Unfair Business procedures, child labor, racial discrimination, and slum housing.
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What was city planning supposed to accomplish?
Definition
Public parks, control growth, building codes, street paving, sanitation, settlement houses, etc.
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1901 Tenement House Act
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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)
Definition
Kindergartens, school attendence laws, problem solving skills, and improved training for doctors.
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17[sup]th[/sup] amendment
Definition
Vote for senators
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Direct primary
Definition
Choose candidates not leaders
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Petitions
Definition
Formal request for action
-Recall-Remove an official
-Initiative- propose a new law
-Referendum- approve or reject laws
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square deal
Definition
Political program(designed by Roosevelt) To treat every citizen fairly
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Monopoly
Definition
sole economic control of a business or product
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Sherman Antitrust Act
Definition
Cannot create monopolies or trusts that restrain trade.
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Arbitration
Definition
A formal meeting to talk about, and settle disagreements.
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Trust
Definition
a legal arrangement where groups of several companies are under one board of dirctors to eliminate compitition
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Mass transit
Definition
Allowed cities to expand into suburbs, included elevated railroads, subways, cable cars and streetcars.
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skyscrapers
Definition
started in the mid 1800s when a stronger steel was available making more city space
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urbanization
Definition
was rapid in the 1800s from both immigration and emmigration.
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tenements
Definition
houses that served as neighborhood immigrants lived, terrible conditions.
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settlement houses
Definition
Neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, and recreation.
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Jane Adams
Definition
Co-fouder of the hull house.
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The immegrant restriction league
Definition
tried to to lower the number of immigrants, puting rules in place like they had to read and write.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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banned Chinese people from immigrating for 10 years.
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Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives
Definition
showed the terrible lif in tenements to improve living conditions.
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
Definition
set up a merit system controlled by the Civil Service Commission to moniter government jobs.
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Booker T. Washington
Definition
tried to improve economic conditions of African Americans.
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Pure Food and Drug Act
Definition
Banned the manufacture sale or transportation of mislabeled or contaminated food or drugs.
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16[sup]th[/sup] amendment
Definition
allowed the federal government to place a tax on peoples income.
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Bull Moose Party
Definition
also called the progressive party for Roosevelt to run over.
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The Jungle, Uptown Sinclair
Definition
showed the horrors of Chicago's meatpacking industry.
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Isolationism
Definition
avoiding involvement in the affairs of other countries.
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imperialism
Definition
practice of building an empire.
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New Territories(late 1800s)
Definition
Alaska, Hawaii and other island nations.
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Japan
Definition
industrialized because of commodore Matthew Perry, trade treaty in 1853
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Spheres of Influence
Definition
areas where foriegn nations could control trade and natural resources.
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Open Door Policy
Definition
all nations have equal trade access with China.
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Boxer Rebellion
Definition
Chinese who resented foriegners(Fists of righteous Harmony) attacked foriegners, but were defeated.
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Panama Canal
Definition
To link the atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and cut 8000 miles off the journey.
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Monroe Doctrine 1823
Definition
warned European nations not to colonize or interfere in the Americas any more.
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Roosevelt Corollary
Definition
US would police afairs in the western hemisphere to keep Europe from intervening.
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Dollar Diplomacy(Taft)
Definition
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
Definition
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
Definition
~landless and poor
~foriegn companies in mexican economy
~Diaz's harsh ruel over Mexico
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MAIN causes of war
Definition
Militarism
Aliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
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Triple Aliance
Definition
Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
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Triple Entente
Definition
France, Great Britain, Russia
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Arduke Franz Ferdinand
Definition
Was killed by Gavrilo Princip, which sparked WWI
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Allied powers
Definition
Great Britain, France, Italy, USA, Russia, Serbia etc.
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Central Powers
Definition
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
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Schlieffen Plan
Definition
Germany's plan to quickly defeat France by going throug Belgium.
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New Battle tactics and weapons.
Definition
Less hand to hand combat. Machine guns, tanks, warplanes, and submarines came into play.
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No Mans Land
Definition
The area between trenches.
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Stalemate
Definition
When neither side advances or retreats.
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The Western Front
Definition
War front in France with Germany.
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The Luisitania
Definition
A Great Britain ship sunk by German U-boats.
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US entrance to WWI
Definition
1917 because of the brocken sussex pledge and Zimmerman Note.
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Committee on public Information
Definition
Formed to raise public support for the war effort, they used four minute men, movie stars, and other propaganda.
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Selective Service Act
Definition
required men between the age of 21 and 31 to register to be drafted.
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African Amercans in war.
Definition
Were given more combat and even some officer roles.
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Women in the war.
Definition
Volunteered by handling the Army telephone service, nurses, ambulence drivers, joining the Red Cross, and taking industrial and clerical jobs.
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Liberty Bonds
Definition
Provided money to the Alied powers for WWI
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Victory Gardens
Definition
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.
Definition
Many people left for war giving the people left behind more power over working conditions and pay.
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Definition
Russia signed a peace treaty, causing Germany to focus their troops on the Western Front.
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Second Battle of the Marne
Definition
Destroyed the German ability to attack again.
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Armistice
Definition
the truce that offically ended the war.
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Wilson's fourteen points
Definition
Wilsons plan for rebuilding and organizing postwar Europe and for avoiding future wars.
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Selfdetermination
Definition
Right of people to decide their politiacal status.
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League of Nations
Definition
international congress of nations formed to settle disputes and maintain peace.
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Big Four
Definition
U.S, Great Britain, France, and Italy.
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Europe's goal(WWI)
Definition
To make Germany take full blame, and pay for reparations for WWI
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Treaty of Versailles
Definition
~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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collective security
Definition
promise to defend other countries.
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Speakeasies
Definition
Secret illegal clubs that served alcohol during prohibition.
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Marcus Gravey
Definition
founded the UNIA (United Negro Improvement Association)
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Charles Lindbergh
Definition
first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Womens progress in the 1920s
Definition
Right to vote, more jobs such as nursing, teaching, and secretaries.
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Movie progress in 1920s
Definition
Sound was added to movies.
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Emergency Quota Act
Definition
limited the number of immigrants from any country to 3 percent
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Immigration Act
Definition
stopped Jappenese immigration completely and limited other immigration even more.
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business cycle
Definition
economic pattern in which business goes through growth and decent.
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