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-second industrial Revolution 1865-1905
-factories, inventions
-Thomas Edison, Rockefeller, Carnegie |
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-Bessemer process(new method of steel making
-telegraph-Samuel F. Morse
-Telephone-Alexander Graham Bell |
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-vertical integration-purchasing companies that provide materials and services that help your enterprise
-Horizontal integration-purchasing other companies that produce the same product |
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-the steel baron
-Carnegie steel
+charged lower prices that competition and still made profit
+developed vertical integration |
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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-1890
- Congress outlawed all monopolies and trusts that restrained trade
-Act not strictly enforced
-Business found ways around the law |
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| -community service centers that offered education skills and cultural events to people living in poor neighborhoods |
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| -included forms of public transportation such as electric commuter trains, subways, ans trolley cars |
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-favored realistic books about city life
+Edith Wharton(1950) "The House of Mirth"
+yellow journalism- style of sensational reporting used by newspapers to attract readers |
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American City Life
Ch. 16 |
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-suburbs-residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city
-nouve riche- newly rich
+conspicuous consumption- Thorstein Veblen
-spending money just to display one's wealth |
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Social Gospel Movement
Ch. 16 |
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-developed the idea which called for people to apply Christian principals to address social problems
-churches provided classes, counseling,job training,libraries, ect. |
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| -this ideal glorified the role of the women as a homemaker |
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-Theodore Roosevelt's campaign slogan
-pledging to balance the interests of business, consumers, and labor. |
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Galveston Hurricane
Ch. 19 |
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| -helped bring about the establishment of city councils |
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| -use of the office of president as a "bully pulpit" was popularized by Theodore Roosevelt |
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Woman's right to vote
Ch. 19 |
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-Women were divided
1. National American Women Suffrage Association
2. National Woman's Party (Alice Paul)
*Nineteenth Amendment(1920) |
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-Germany
-Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
-Bulgaria |
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-France
-Russia
-Great Britian
-Italy (switched 1915) |
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Ch. 21 |
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-Assassinated, June 1914
-started WW1 |
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Leaders At Versailles
Ch. 21 |
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-French- Clemenseau
-British- George
-Italian- Orlando
-American- Wilson |
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| foresaw a peaceful transition to socialism by democratic means |
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-Republican
-pro-business platform that promised tax- revision, higher tariffs, limits on immigration, and some aid to farmers
-"return to normalcy" |
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Equal Rights Amendment
Ch. 22 |
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- constitutional amendment proposed to congress in 1923 by Alice Paul
-stated: " Men and Women shall have equal rights throughout the US and every place subject to its jurisdiction |
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- new Klan established in 1915 at Stone Mountain, Georgia by preacher William Joseph Simmons
-carried out kidnappings, beatings, & lynchings to terrorize African Americans in South |
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-new production method( help make goods faster)
-mainly used in automobile factories(Ford) |
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-originated among African American musicians in South
- New Orleans
-1920s |
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-generation lost from War
-reflected horror and death
- writers and artists
+Langston Hughes[poet]
+Paul Robeson [actor]
+F. Scott Fitzgerald [author]
+Ernest Hemingway [writer] |
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-ban on alcohol
-Volstead Act to enforce amendment
+ speakeasies, clubs or bars where liquor was sold illegally |
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-stock market crash of 1929
-provoked the banking crisis and business failures that jolted the US economy |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ch. 24 |
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Invasion of Poland
Ch. 26 |
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-Germany invades Poland
+ Blitzkrieg "lighting war"
promised to make no further advancements on Europe, then went to Poland
+broke policy of appeasement |
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-joint pledge to not pursue territorial expansion (1941)
-signed by Roosevelt and Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war |
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-Dec. 7, 1941
- Japan Attacked
+Destroyed 180 American Aircraft
+killed 2400 Americans |
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Hitler's Government
Ch. 26 |
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-Chancellor 1923
-National Socialist (Nazi) Party
-outlawed all political other political parties
-blamed "undesirables" for WWI |
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-secret organization in France
+Winston Churchill |
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-commanded by General Douglass MacArthur
-given command of all US army units in the Pacific
+island hopping |
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-operation overlord
-June 6th, 1944
+Dwight D. Eisenhower-supreme Allies Commander
- 5 beaches with code names |
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Joseph McCarthy
-claimed to have a list of "card Carrying" communists who worked at State Department |
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