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Bessemer Process

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developed by Henry Bessemer and William Kelly to change iron into steel by injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon impurities

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Andrew Carnegie

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Monopoly in the steel industry

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John Rockefeller

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Monopoly in oil

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Credit Mobiler

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Stockholders in the Union Pacific formed their own construction company

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Collective Bargaining

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both sides get together to work on a contract

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Thomas Edison

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first research laboratory, perfected the incandescent lightbulb, phonograph

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Vertical Integration

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Controlling all aspects of the business from the ground up

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Monopoly

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Controlling everything

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George Pullman

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Responsible for sleeper cars

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Items needed to be industrialized

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Money, natural resources, investors, inventions and innovations, population

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Invented the telephone

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Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries

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American Federation of Labor

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Samuel Gompers; craft unionism; collective bargaining

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Horizontal Integration

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process of buying out the competition

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End of Chapter 6

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YEET

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Steerage

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Lowest and cheapest passage on ships

Lack of space and air, uncomfortable

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Nativism

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Believe that people born in the U.S were superior to people who immigrated

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Settlement Houses

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Community centers in the slum designed to help immigrants

Learned to read
Gain skills for jobs
Assistance with child rearing

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Tweed Ring (William Marcy)

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Leader of Tammy hall in New York
Powerful democrat 
Corrupt politician
Defrauded NY
One instance of his corruption cost tax payers $10 million
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Ellis Island

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Immigrants arrived on the East Coast

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Urbanization

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The growing of cities

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Gilded Age

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Era that looked prosperous on the outside but the internal structure of society was crumbling

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Civil Service Exam

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–Law passed stating that those individuals wanting a government job must take a test and qualify for the job.

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Melting Pot

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The mixture of many cultures in the U.S

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Tenements

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Small houses for the poor

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Mass Transit

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A transpirational system that moves large numbers of people

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End of Chapter 7

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YEET X2

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Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur)

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Bicycle manufactures from ohio.

Designed and flew the first byplane

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Plessy V. Ferguson

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Separate but equal

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Poll Tax

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Voting tax designed to keep African Americans from voting

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Eastman

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Introduced the Kodak camera

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Mark Twain

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Famous novelist who wrote the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer

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Sears & Roebuck

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First Mail order catalog

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Jim Crow Laws

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Laws that mandates a separation of blacks and whites

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W.E.B DuBois

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Believed that blacks should seek their position in society first

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Marshall Fields

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First department store

Give the Lady what she wants

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That’s it for Chapter 8

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YEET X10

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16nd Amendment

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Granted income tax

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Teen Years of 9 Amendment

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Women’s right to vote

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Mueller V. Oregon

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Protected women against large corporation

Limited work hours to 10 hours a day

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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Halted the sale of contaminated food and drugs

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17nd Amendment

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Election if senators by the people

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Muckrakers

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Journalist that expose the evils in society

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

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Upton Sinclair

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Muckraker
Wrote the Jungle
Exposed the meatpacking industry

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18th Amendment

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Prohibition

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Robert LaFollette

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“Fighting Bob”

Focused on the railroad by tasting railroad industries the same as other business property.

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Vice President under Mckinley until he was assassinated
Hard to handle
Rough rider in Spanish American war

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Woodrow Wilson- ask teacher

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“New Freedom” was his political platform

Attacked trust, tariffs, and high finances

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End of Chapter 9

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Ye-Ye-YEET

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Imperialism

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Desire for more land

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U.S.S Maine

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U.S. Ship sent to Cuba to bring home U.S. Citizens in danger from the fighting
Blew up in the Havana
Killed 260 men
Blamed the Spanish

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Open Door Policy?

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Borders are open to anyone

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Platt Amendment

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After the Spanish American war
Cuba could not make treaties
The U.S. reserved the right to intervene in Cuba
Cuba could not go into debt that its government could not pay
The U.S. Could buy or lease land on the island for fueling stations or navel bases

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Alfred Mahan

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In order for the U.S. to become a powerful nation it had to build up its navy

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Rough Riders/ Roosevelt ?

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He was the rough rider of the Spanish American war and led the charge on San Juan Hill

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Boxer Rebellion

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Resentful over foreigners in China triggered a secret society to be formed

Get rid of Chinas “Foreign Devils”

In the rebellion thousands died and it was unsuccessful

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Roosevelt Corollary

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Addition to the Monroe doctrine

Warned that we would exercise our military forces if their were and disorders in Latin America

U.S would use military force to protect its interest

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Queen Liliuokalani

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Queen of Hawaii

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Protectorate

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A country who’s affairs are controlled by another country

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Panama Canal

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Two proposed sites were Nicaragua and panama

Used to cut shipping time

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And Of Chapter 10

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YEET X100

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Lusitania

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A luxury liner ship that was torpedoed by Germans

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Trench warfare

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Fighting in dugout trenches in the ground

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Sussex pledge

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The Germans would not sink merchant ships without helping the passengers off first

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Nationalism

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Pride in ones country

Intense dedication to ones country

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Zimmerman Note

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Germans tried to get Mexico to distract the U.S. In return it would get its land back that it lost in the Spanish American War.

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Propaganda

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Exaggerate stories similar to yellow journalism

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Archduke Ferdinand

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Heir to the Australian throne

Assassinated that was the spark of WW1

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Militarism

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Focused on armed forces

Increasing the number of troops

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Selective Service Act

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Draft authorized my congress

Males between 21-30 must sign up for the military

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Ultimatum

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“Do it or else”

A final statement from one party to another

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Terms of Treaty of Versailles

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Reduction of armaments
No Navy
No Air Force
Limited army

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League of Nations

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International organization to help keep peace

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End of Chapter 11

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Anarchist

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People who do not believe in any for of government

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Installment plan

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Buying a product and paying for it over an extended period of time

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Henry Ford

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Created the Model T
Assembly line
$5 a day
Car becomes the backbone of the American Economy

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Speakeasy

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Illegal bars

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Babe Ruth

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“Sultan of Swat”
Famous home run hitter
Played for the NY Yankees
Hit over 60 home runs in 1927

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John Scopes

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Was tried for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school
Found guilty
Had to pay a fine of $100

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Louis Armstrong

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Jazz era trumpet player
Part of big jazz bands
One of the most influential musicians in U.S. History

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Warren Harding_

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President of the U.S.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Tariffs raised 60%
Died while president

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Quota System

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System that established a maximum number of people entering the U.S.

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Al Capone

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Mobster of Chicago 
"Scar Face"
Responsible for St. Valentine's Day massacre 
Went to jail for tax evasion 
Died of syphilis
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Model T

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Backbone of the U.S economy
Assembly line
$5 a day

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Bootlegging

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People that smuggled alcohol in the U.S.

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Charles Lindbergh

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Flew nonstop from NY to Paris in The Spirit of ST.Louis
Famous hero
Son was kidnapped

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Famous writer and used reality in his writings

Used the negative side of the period

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Harlem Renaissance

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Literary and artistic movement that celebrated African American culture

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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One of the worst Scandals during Warren G. Harding presidency
Trying to sell of oil

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Red Scare

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Hit the U.S. After the Bolshevik revolution
Established a new communist state
Communism wanted to rid capitalism everywhere
General Mitchell started Palmer raids

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Assembly Line

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Used by Henry Ford to make Model T’s

Production rate went way up

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KDKA

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First radio station

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Flapper

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New women of 1920s
Short hair (cropped) short skirts, smoked, drank, drive cars
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Marcus Garvey

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A Jamaican that believe blacks should create their own separate society

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Italian immigrants who were charged with robbing and murdering a factory pay master
Found guilty and sentence to death

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End of Chapter 12-13

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Black Tuesday

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The day the stock market crashes
The Wednesday before the stock market dropped and lost $5 billion
Thursday dropped even more

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Speculation (Over Speculation)

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People belief that prides and stocks would continue to go up

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Bread lines

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People lined up to get free food from the government, Usually bread

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Herbert Hoover

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Election of 1928
Republican
“Keep things the same”
Then “rugged individualism”

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Causes of the depression

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Unequal distribution of wealth (1% had 14.5% of the money)
High tariffs 
Easy credit 
Farm crisis 
Overproduction 
Banking system 
Domino effect
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Shantytowns/ Hoovervilles

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Make shift shacks made of scrap materials in which people lived in

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Bonus Army

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WWI veterans who went to Washington to get their bonus check under the Patman Bill
Last 2,000 are forcibly removed by Hoover

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Depression

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Era of low economic growth

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Dust bowl

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A dirty tool used to get stoned

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Rugged individualism

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Care for yourself -Hoover

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End of Chapter 14

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FDR

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Promises to end the Great Depression with his New Deal

Election of 1932 agains Hoover

Polio

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New Deal

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During FDR first 100 days he passes over 15 major pieces of his New Deal

Expands the governments role in the economy

Called for a “Bank Holiday”

Fireside chats

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CCC

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Civilian Conservation Corps18-25 year old single men were paid and housed to work on flood control projects, soil erosion, planting trees, developing roads, building roads, digging ditchesMost of their money ($25 out of $30) was sent home

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AAA

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Agriculture Adjustment AdministrationTried to raise crop prices by lowering crop productionPaid farmers to leave their land fallow, plow under crops, kill off pigs, and throw milk in the ditches

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TVA

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Tennessee Valley AuthorityBuilt dams in the Tennessee Valley to control floodingCreated cheap electricity for people in the region

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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FDR’s wife
Social reformer
First Lady
Campaigned for her husband

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WPA

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Works Progress AdministrationHeaded by Harry HopkinsGoal was to create as many jobs as possibleSpent $11 billionGave painters jobs painting murals in towns, writers jobs writing about histories of their towns or cities

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Deficit Spending

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Spending more money then the country collect in revenue

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Social Security Act

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Social Security ActPassed with the help of Francis Perkins (1stwoman in cabinet)Insurance for retirees over 65 and their spousesUnemployment compensationAid to families with dependent children and disabled

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Francis Perkins

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First female cabinet member

Known for promoting security and labor legislation

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Father Coughlin

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Radio priest from Detroit

Initially liked the new deal but later criticized it

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Huey Long

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Senator that beloved the FDR was not doing enough to bail out the country
Share-Our-Wealth program

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Grapes of Wrath

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Book by John Steinbeck that depicted the life of Okies

People of Oklahoma

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FDIC

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Federal Deposit Insurance CorporationInsurance on your money in the bank

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END OF CHAPTER 15

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