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big buisness , prgressive era, overseas expansion
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History
8th Grade
04/08/2010

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andrew carnegie
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leader of steel idustry

used wealth to set up buinesss collegs, etc

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John Rockefeller
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oil

standard oil trusts

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Henry Ford
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used assembly line most efficiantly, allowed people to travel faster
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Thomas Edison
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invented lightbulb which gave people more daylite hours, longer working hourss
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Joseph Pulitzer
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went to cuba, reported using yellow journalism
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Theodore Roosevelt 
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set up conservation, national parks, leader of Roughriders that fought in Cuba, presendt hard core
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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took over womans suffrage, won state by state
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W.E.B Du Bois
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African American should fight not accept segration
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matthew perry
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opend up japan with ships... nice then threatened
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Jungle
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book about meat packaging plants
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Turner Thesis
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idea that expansion had always been a part of US history
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Womens cristian temprance movement
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fought for prohibition
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open door policy
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idea that major powers would split up china for trade
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sinking of the maine
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got us involved in war. nobody knows, some think cuba becuz thy were mad.
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conservation
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roosevelts thing, saving nation parks, forrests
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spanish/ american war
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started because cuba wanted independance.
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square deal
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roosevelt promised every1 has equal oppertunity to succeed
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NAACP
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national association for the advancement of colored people
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big buisness ?1
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because there were lots of immigrants who were willing to accept lowely jobs. poor families had to have kids work
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causes and reasons for american expansion
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applied m.d overseas and made trading partners
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