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Exam 02 Definition and Jeopardy
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History
Undergraduate 2
04/10/2010

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"Smoked"

"Yankees"

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Calvin

Coolidge

Definition

 (1872-1933) 30th president from (1923-29). Improved Moral Tone of White House and continued Conservative policies of Harding Administration. Led by Andrew Mellon, instituted conservative Platform.

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Coal Strike

Of

1902

Definition

The Coal Strike of 1902 was a strike by theUnited Mine Workers of America in the hard coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania.

President Theodore Roosevelt became involved and set up a fact-finding commission that suspended the strike. The strike never resumed, as the miners received more pay for fewer hours; the owners got a higher price for coal, and did not recognize the union as a bargaining agent. It was the first labor episode in which the federal government intervened as a neutral arbitrator.


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Dollar

Diplomacy

Definition

A policy to promote American financial and business interests abroad. It aimed to substitute economic ties for military alliances with the idea of increasing American influence and bringing lasting peace.

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Eugene

V

Debbs

Definition

(1855-1926) was an American union Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), as well as candidate for President of the United States as a member of the Social Democratic Party in 1900. Later he was a presidential candidate and member of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920.[2]socialists leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs would eventually become one of the best-known in the United States.

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Gunboat

Diplomacy

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Herbert

Croly

Definition

was a progressive-liberal writer and leader of the new liberalism movement in early twentieth-century America. He is best known for co-founding the magazine The New Republic and for his book "The Promise of American Life". His political philosophy influenced many Progressives including Theodore Roosevelt, as well as his close friends Judge Learned Hand and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.

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Ida

Tarbell

Definition

(1857-1944) was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism." She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies. She is best-known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company

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Imperialism

Definition

Extending the power and domination of a nation by direct territorial acquisitions or by control over the political or economic life of other areas.

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Industrial

Workers

Of the

World

Definition

Founded in 1905, this radical union, also known as the Wobblies aimed to unite the American working class into one union to promote labor's interests. It worked to organize unskilled and foreign-born laborer's, advocated social revolution, and led several major strikes.

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John

Dewey

Definition

 (1859-1953) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

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Kellogg-

Briand

Pact

Definition

Pact of Paris , this 1928 agreement was the brainchild of U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and French premier Aristade Briand. It pledged its signatories, eventually including nearly all nations, to shun war as an instrument of policy.

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Lincoln

Steffens

Definition

April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an American journalist, lecturer, and political philosopher, and one of the most famous practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking.

 

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Mann

Act

Definition

gave the ICC the power to set rates, stiffened long and short- haul regulations, and placed telephone and telegraph companies under ICC jurisdiction. It also created a Commerce Court .

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Moral

Diplomacy

Definition

Designed to bring right to the world, preserve peace, and extend to other people the blessings of democracy.

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Muckrakers

Definition

Unflattering term coined by Theodore Roosevelt to describe the writers who made a practice of exposing the wrongdoings of public figures.

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Muller

V.

Oregon

Definition

This Supreme Court decision established special protections for working women, upholding an Oregon law that limited women working in factories and laundries to a ten-hour work day.

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Oliver

Wendell

Holmes

Definition

was an American jurist associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "clear and present danger" majority opinion in the 1919 case of Schenck v. United States, and is one of the most influential American common-law who served as an judges.

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Open

Door

Policy

Definition

Established in a series of notes by Secretary of State John Hay in 1900, this policy established free trade between the U.S. and China and attempted to enlist major European and Asiannations in recognizing the territorial integrity of China. It embarked a departure from the American tradition of isolationalism.

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Palmer

Raids

Definition

Justice Dept. countered subversive department and headed by J. Edgar Hoover.10,000 arrested, some arrested and some were deported. Largest mass arrest in U.S. history.

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Panama

Canal

Definition

is a 77 km (48 mi) ship canal that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade.  The first attempt to construct a canal began in 1880 under French leadership, but was abandoned after 21,900 workers died, largely from disease (particularly malaria and yellow fever) and landslides. The United States launched a second effort, incurring a further 5,600 deaths but succeeding in opening the canal in 1914. 

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Pragmatism

Definition
is a philosophical movement that includes those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that unpractical ideas are to be rejected.
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Purity

Crusade

Definition

Crusade against vice, primarily drunkeness and prostitution.

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Red

Scare

Definition

A wave of anticommunist, antiforeign, and antilabor hysteria that swept over America at the end of  WWI. It resulted in the deportation of many alien residents and the violation of the civil liberties of many of its victims.

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Roosevelt

Corollary

Definition

U.S. treats Latin America as a Protectorate and U.S. will ensure stability of Latin American finance. It spurs intervention in Dominican Republic, Panama, and Cuba.

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Root

Takahira

Agreement

Definition

was an agreement between the U. S. and  Japan negotiated between U. S. Secretary of State Elihu Root and Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. Takahira Kogorō. Signed on 30 November 1908, the agreement consisted of an official recognition of the territorial status quo as of November 1908, affirmation of the independence and territorial integrity of China , maintenance of free trade and equal commercial opportunities, Japanese recognition of the American annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the Philippines. Implicit in the agreement was American acknowledgment of Japan's right to annex Korea and dominance over southern Manchuria.

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Teapot

Dome

Scandal

Definition

A 1924 scandal in which Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for leasing government-owned oil lands in Wyoming and California to private oil businessmen.

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Teller

Amendment

Definition

The United States pledged that it did not intend to annex Cuba and that it would recognizeCuban independence from Spain after the Spanish-American War.

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Thorstien

Veblen

Definition

was a Norwegian-American sociologist economist and a primary mentor, along with John R. Commons, of the institutional economics movement. He was an impassioned critic of the performance of the American economy, and is most famous for his book The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).

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Treaty

Of

Paris

1898

Definition

Signed by the U.S and Spain in 1898, this treaty ended the Spanish-American War. Spain recognized Cuba's independence and asssumed the Cuban debt, it ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S. At the insistence of the U.S. representatives, Spain also ceded the Philippines. The Senate ratified the treaty on February 6,1899.

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Upton

Sinclair

Definition

He wrote a book called" The Jungle."

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Warren

G.

Harding

Definition

(1865-1923) Was the 29th president. His conservative campaign manager Harry Daugherty's 'make no enemies' strategy enabled Harding to become the compromise choice at the 1920 Republican National Convention. During his presidential campaign, in the aftermath of World War I, he promised

a return to "normalcy". 

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Washington

Naval

Arms

Conference

Definition

1921: Address problem of naval arms race. Proposed 10 yr. naval building holiday. Five-Power Naval Arms Treaty that put limits on Capitol ship building and ship building ratio among signatories.

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William

James

Definition

was a pioneering American psychologist philosopher who was trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism.

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Yellow

Press

Definition
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