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| political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform throught government action |
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| Social and political reformer from philadelphia. worked against sweetshops and for the minimum wage and 8 hr. work days. also for childrens rights |
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| disallowence of alcohol products |
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| reform-oriented journalists , wrote largely for popular magazines continued a tradition of investigative journalism |
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| American Republican, served in the house of Representatives. governor of Wisconsin. |
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| means by which a petetion signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote. |
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| a direct vote which an entire electorate is asked to accept or reject a particular proposal |
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| procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote |
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| people elect their own US senatora |
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| Americam Astonomer. discovereda comet which became know as Miss Mitchells comet .won a gold medal for her discovery |
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| politacal franchise..english means the right to run for office |
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| active in temporance. joined womens rights movement .. she traveled and lectured and canvassed across the nation, ignoring opposition and abuse |
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| National american women suffrage association |
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| President after McKinley was assassinated. War hero of the Spanish American War. Made up San Juan hill |
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Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed
upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of
corporations, and consumer protection. |
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| Book by Upton Sinclair. About factories deplorable conditions and lack of sanitation. |
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| wrote The Jungle, Famous Muckraker. |
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| Act by congress which sought to protect consumers from "bad" meat. |
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Provided
federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale,
or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent
medicines. Muckrakers were a big part of its formation. |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
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| German who was among the only foresters in the US. worked on the Biltmore Estate. |
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| President picked by Theodore Roosevelt, fattest president, didn't do the best job, fired Gifford Pinchot. |
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a
bill lowering certain tariffs on goods entering the United States;
however, the United States Senate speedily substituted a bill written by
Aldrich, calling for fewer reductions and more increases in tariffs. |
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Act was an attempt to define more clearly the basic policy of the
United States with respect to the organization and control of industry. |
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United
States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission
Act. Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and
the elimination and prevention of what regulators perceive to be
harmfully anti-competitive business practices, such as coercive
monopoly. |
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| The central banking system of the United States. |
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| Wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, in which he argued that the nations who controlled the seas ruled the world. |
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| Exaggeration of occurences in the newspapers. |
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Blew
up accidentally in Cuba became one of the three main causes of the
Spanish American war when exaggerated it was by yellow journalism |
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Stipulated
the conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in
Cuba at the end of the Spanish-American War and defined the terms of
Cuban-U.S. relations until the 1934 Treaty of Relations. |
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| an autonomous territory that is Protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity. |
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U.S.
Secretary of State John Hay sent notes to the major powers (France,
Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, and Russia), asking them to
declare formally that they would uphold Chinese territorial and
administrative integrity and would not interfere with the free use of
the treaty ports within their spheres of influence in China. |
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| Chinese rebellion against foreigners |
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| Canal through Panama, which was a part of Columbia, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. |
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Added
to the Monroe Doctrine giving us the right to interfere in South
America if Us lives, property, and interests are in danger. |
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used to describe the effort of the United States — particularly under
President William Howard Taft — to further its aims in Latin America and
East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made
to foreign countries. |
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The
belief or desire of a government or people that a country should
maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it
aggressively to defend or promote national interests. |
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Russia (1914–17)
British Empire
France France
Italy (1915–18)
United States (1917–18)
Romania (1916–18)
Japan
Serbia
Belgium
Greece (1917–18)
Portugal Portugal (1916–18)
Montenegro (1914–16)
and others |
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Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Bulgaria (1915–18) |
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| Shot down in German waters. Part of the reason for the Us entering WW1. |
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| A 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States. |
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Authorized
the federal government to raise a national army numbering in the
hundreds of thousands with which to fight a modern war. |
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An
"individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military
service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion. |
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| Espionage + Sedition Acts |
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Forbade
the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about
the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that
caused others to view the American government or its institutions with
contempt. Those convicted under the act generally received sentences of
imprisonment for 5 to 20 years. |
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Speech
given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of
Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the
country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for
postwar peace in Europe. |
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An
intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace
Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent
international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world
peace. |
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| treaty at the end of WW1. ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied powers. |
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| compensation for something that happen?(exp. slavery,war) in many forms indivdual payment , land, just money in general |
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