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Progressive Era and Guilded Age
Progressive and guilded
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10th Grade
03/14/2013

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Lynching
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Skyrocketed in years folllowing civil war, after 1877, no threat of legal actions.
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Jim Crow Laws
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Passed after 1877 in south, designed to curtail civil rights African Americans had won with 13 14 15 amendments.
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Voting Rights
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Restricted after 1877, grandfater clauses, literacy tests, poll taxes, intimidation
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Sharecropping
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At the mercy of white landlords in south to replace slavery.
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Great Migration
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Drawn by industrial jobs in the North, approx 6 million African Americans began moving in large numbers towards factory jobs (cleveland chicago, detroit) in 1910s
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W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington
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DuBois: More radical of the two, believeed the "talented tenth" of educated and successful African Americans would inspire others. Leader of Niagra Movements and founder of the NAACP. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Washington: Gradual equality. Founded the Tuskegee Institute, vocational training.
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Regions of origina for immigrants
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West Coast: China and Japan
East Coast: Southern and Eastern Europe: Italy, Poland, Slavic countries, etc.
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Reasons for immigration, push pull factors
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Push: Factors that encourage people to move from an area, religious persecution, lack of economic oppurtunity
Pull: Factors that encourage people to move to an area.
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Ellis Island, Angel Island
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70% of all immigrants entered the US at Ellis Island. Angel island welcomed west coast immigrants.
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Anti-immigration
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Concerns over religious "muddling, anti-semitism and fear of catholic invasion, economic competition, fear of communism, anarchism
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Bans Chinese immigration, only group prohibited from USA
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Great Migration
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Led to formation of ghettos in many cities, racial tensions grow in cities
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Impact of immigration
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Creation of ethnic enclaves, often filled slums of cities
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City Conditions
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Bad sanitation, disease, fire hazards,lack of zoning, lack of trash disposal, overcrowding. Collection of photos by Jacob Riis
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Reason for Progressive
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Belief in science, efficiency, and experts, problems could be identified and effectively solved, optimistic.
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Muckrakers
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Investigative journalissts who exposed the ugly underside of society
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Grassroots movements
Definition
Motivated americans to act at the local level for change
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Goals of progressivism
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Promote social welfare, (FDA), promote moral improvement, (Temperance), Economic reform (Labor laws), Foster efficiency
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Women's rights efforts
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19th amendment, notable women: Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, Susan B. Anthony. Paul did hunger strikes.
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Anti-corruption efforts
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17th amendment, initiative (bill by people), referendum (people can vote on initiative), recall (voters can order a special election mid-term to replace an official. Secret ballots, trust busting
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Trust-Busting
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Sherman Antitrust Act - Strengthened under TR Wilson passed the Clayton Antitrust act in 1914, and implemented the Federal Trade Commision
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Environmental
Definition
National Parks under TR
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City Conditions
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Fire codes, more open spaces, zoning laws
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Forgotten Voices
Definition
African Americans are unaddressed by Progressives.
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Reasons for American Imperialism
Definition
Economic- US needed new markets and access to raw materials.
Political - Control of strategic waterways/territories for shipping, refueling, defense of US interests
Moral - White Man's burden, Missionary zeal - Many americans wanted to spread Christianity
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Social
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Social Darwinism - Belief that the fittest of races will survive, manliness - TR believed that nations needed to exercise strength (military)
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Anti-Imperialism
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Political-You can't force democracy, moral-can't force religion, economic-imperialism only benefits wealthy
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Alaska
Definition
Bought from Russia, oil
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Hawaii
Definition
Taken by force by Sanford B. Dole, mid-Pacific refueling station for american steamships
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Spanish American War
Definition
Taking two smaller territories under its protection
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Platt Amendment
Definition
Cuba is dependent on US for treaties
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Panama Canal
Definition
Secured Panama independence from Columbia to build a canal
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Philippine War
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Aguinaldo surrenders, but a resistance movement continues up to WWI
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Open Door Policy
Definition
John Hay proposes equal access to chinese markets.
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Long Term
Definition
Cuba sides with Russia in cold war, Panama until 1999, Alasksa and Hawaii, Philippines guerilla war
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