Chapters 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24 Flashcards
A writer that investigated the standard oil company for McClure’s
Ida Tarbell
In his book, the souls of black folk, he expressed his dual identity as both African and American
W.E.B. Dubois
Leader of the AFL. It grew fourfold from 1900 to 1914.
Samuel Gompers
In Muller v. Oregon he presented a famous legal brief to the Supreme Court.
Louis Brandies
In 1904 she helped organize the national child labor committee.she helped with worming conditions for women and children.
Florence Kelley
Ban on the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
Prohibition
System that features government ownership of most factories, utilities, and transportation and communications system
Socialism
A nonunion workplace
Open shop
Workplace where everyone must be a union member
Closed shop
Progressives tried to change these to limit the number of hours children could work.
Labor laws
Investigative journalist
Muckraker
The freedom to negotiate the terms of employment
Freedom of contract
A movement to reform problems in America’s urban areas
Progressivism
Organization that fought for racial equality
National urban league
Established to address the problems of American Indians
Society of American Indians
lead by Samuel Gompers. Included skilled workers only and it was the major la or organization of the time
AFL(American federation of labor)
one AFL union that tried to organize unskilled workers. 1900 New York City. It received strike support from women’s trade union league. It was mainly Jewish and Italian immigrant women
ILGWU(International ladies garment workers union)
opposed capitalism. Leader was William “Big Bill” Haywood.
IWW(Industrial workers of the world)
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Like the populists, progressives wanted people to have a greater control of government
True
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Progressives supported an end to child labor but not women’s suffrage.
False
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Florence Kelley was know as the terror of the trusts
False
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The Supreme Court generally supported social reform
False
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Most labor unions wanted to replace capitalism with another economic system
False
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The major labor organization during the reform years was the American federation if labor
True
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By 1902 only about 3% of African american workers were members of unions
True
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By 1920 more then half of all Americans lived in cities
True
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Progressives were in favor of banning alcohol
True
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The eighteenth amendment was difficult to enforce
True
Program that was built on the belief that people did best with the least amount of interferences from government and business
New freedom
Wilson’s administration introduced this to make up for revenue lost by lowering tariffs
Graduated income tax
Wisconsin governed who was responsible for actively supporting electoral reforms in his state and providing a positive example for officials in other states
Robert M. La Follette
The creation of this gave the government the ability to investigate and bring to court corporations that has unfair business practices
Federal trade commission
Proposed an amendment to the constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote
National women’s party
Presidential power limited by the constitution, supported Richard Ballinger,and did not oppose high tariffs
President Taft
Expanded presidential power, supported Gifford Pinchot, and wanted low tariffs
Progressive party
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Progressives believed that the best way to break the power of political machines was to reform the election process
True
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The average voter was in favor of tax reform and pensions for city employees
False
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President Roosevelt was a “hands off” president, preferring not to become too closely involved with important issues that might coast him votes
False
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Roosevelt was against business and the wealth that is created for its owners
False
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Women were not very involved in the food reform movement
False
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President Roosevelt’s efforts to balance the needs of, business, consumers, and labor was called the square deal
True
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One of Roosevelt’s lasting gifts to the United States was more public transportation
False
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Theodore Roosevelt was not considered a progressive president
False
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One of the first steps leading to the split between president Taft and republican progressives was his refusal to veto the Payne-Aldrich Tariffs
True
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Because tafts allies would not seat many of Roosevelt’s delegates, Theodore Roosevelt lost the republican party’s 1912 presidential nomination
True
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President Wilson achieved great reform in the area of child labor
False
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The national American women suffrage association tried to get voting rights for women by changing laws at state level
True
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Carrie chapman Catts leadership led to successes at the state level for women’s suffrage
True
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Woodrow Wilson worked hard for changes in child labor
True
The assassinations of him caused Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Britain, France, and Russia.
Lost against the central powers
Allied powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria won against allied powers
Central powers
The sinking of this ship was the first real threat to the untitled States neutrality during the early years of WW1
Lusitania
One of the ways the government successfully raised money for the war
Liberty bonds
Gives voters the right to directly elect a U.S. senator
17th amendment
Barred the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol beverages in the United States
18 th amendment
Granted women the right to vote
19th amendment
Outlawed acts of treason and made it a crime to “nutter, print, write, or publish any disloyal or abusive language” criticizing the government, the flag, or the military
Espionage act/sedition act
Was the response to the job opportunities for African Americans in northern industry
Great migration
Headed the food administration
Herbert Hoover
Headed the fuel administration
Harry Garfield
Believed that American industrial support of the allies was against our stand of neutrality
William Jennings Bryan
Led the first us troops to land in France in 1917
General John J. Pershing
Headed the rail road administration
William McAdoo
Response to the lack of interest among american men to join the military
Selective service act
We’re blocked form joining the marines
African Americans
Cable from the German ambassador offering an alliance with Mexico
Zimmermann note
Protected merchants vessels transporting war material and personnel
Convoy system
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The fact that European nations were formed based on the cultural heritage of their people weakened their feelings of nationalism
False
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Austria, Germany, and Italy, formed one alliance while France, Great Britain, and Russia formed another
True
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At the beginning of the war, it was obvious that the conflict would be a long one
False
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Germany quickly poured onto Belgium
True
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The battle of verdin was the longest battle of WW1
True
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Disease and sickness in the trenches killed as many soldiers as combat did
True
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Mustard gas killed its victims by turning them yellow
False
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During WW1, it was common for women to take over jobs usually held by man
True
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The League of Nations was at the heart of Wilson’s fourteen points program
True
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At the peace conference in Europe, it was demanded that Germany pay huge amounts of money to the allies to pay back the cost of the war
True
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The treaty of Versailles did not weaken the Germans and the central powers allies
False
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President Wilson’s fourteen points were so well liked that very little was changed and they were put into practice immediately
False
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The treaty of Versailles was debated in the U.S senate
True
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WW1 destroyed the economies of both the European allied power countries and the central power countries
True
Scandal during president hardings administration, involved secretary of the interior Albert falls leasing of oil reserves in return for personal gifts and loans
Teapot dome scandal
Was of great benefit to the wealthy because it resulted in bug tax reductions for the rich
Revenue act of 1926
Reduced Asian immigration to almost nothing
Immigration act of 1924
Promoted violence and hatred against Catholics, Jews, African Americans, and immigrants
Ku klux klan
The veto of a bill to boost farm prices with government help was an example of the pro business policies of…
Calvin Coolidge
Lost to Hoover in 1928. He made the Democratic Party was moving in a new direction
Alfred E. Smith
Elected representatives in the New York State assembly were expelled because they were members of this party
Socialist party
They were arrested during the Palmer raids
Radicals
Hardings policies positive and negatives
Positives- business profits in creased and surplus from tax cuts helped the economy
Negatives- loss of some progressive era labor reforms and farmers driven deeply into debt
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Between November 1919 and January 1920 federal officials arrested thousands of people suspected of radical beliefs in an action called Hoover roundup
False
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The Fordney- McCumber tariff act was intended to help American business, but it failed to help farmers who were to also benefit
True
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A merger is when separate divisions within a business break up a s go in opposite directions
False
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One of the reasons membership in the labor unions fell by almost 1.5 million during the Harding administration was because federal courts were upholding “yellow-dog contracts”
True
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President hardings administration faced several political scandals
True
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President Harding died in office
True
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The nomination of Alfred E. Smith for presidential candidate showed that the Democratic Party was set in its old ways
False
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African Americans did not have to deal with radical discrimination and violence in the north
False
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The red scare and increasing immigration were two reasons some Americans initially supported the ku klux klan
True
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A 1921 federal anti lunching law sponsored by representative dyer passed with overwhelming support in both the house and senate
False
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When a mob in Waco Texas burned a 17 year old African American to death, W.E.B Du Bois worked hard to get support for the NAACPs anti lurching efforts
True
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Marcus Garvey was against the movement to establish a new political state In Africa for African Americans because he believed that African Americans should stay and fight for equality in America
False
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Mexicans were negatively affected by the new immigration laws
False
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Before an act of congress in 1924, all American Indians had a right to American citizenship
False
He was a harmless renaissance poet. He felt with issues of African American cultural heritage
Langston Hughes
By implementing the assembly line he revolutionized automobile production
Henry Ford
Gangster that controlled Chicago’s underworld
Al Capone
Organized an elite squad of detectives to go after gangsters
Eliot Ness
Became the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris
Charles Lindbergh
Movie director, he created biblical epics such as the Ten Commandments
Cecil B. DeMille
They increased productivity, they made work more tedious, they led to increase employee turnover
Assembly line
Emerged during the early 1900s in New Orleans. Type of music
Jazz
American writes whose work reflected their disillusionment with society
Lost generation
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The volstead act was passed to enforce the eighteenth amendment
True
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Most women during the 1920s pursued traditionally female careers
True
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The era of silent films began in the mid 1920s
False
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Athlete Jim Thorpe became known as the sultan of swat
False
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The prosecuting attorney in the scopes trial was Charles Darwin
False
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Fundamentalism declined in popularity during 1920s
False
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Henry L. Mencken was a critic of the new writers of the new jazz age
False
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If workers at Henry Fords automobile plant wanted to earn the full $5 wage for an eight hour day they had to follow company rules at home as well as at work
True
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Manufacturing designed products the were intended to go out of style after a period of time so that they could replace them with new styles
True
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Most advertisements were trying to sell to men because they were the ones who had jobs
False
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In the 1920s chain style grocery stores began to replace traditional corner markets
True
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Less alcoholism and fewer alcohol related deaths were two benefits of the prohibition era
True
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During the 1920s many women began careers that were traditionally open only to men
True
Provided the governments direct grants not loans
Federal Emergency Relief Administration(FERA)
Crisis in the banking industry, business failures, and massive unemployment in the early 1920s
Great Depression
Purchasing stocks on borrowed money
Margin buying
Upward Trend in stock prices
Bull market
Nickname for shantytown s
Hoovervilles
Groups that tried to give direct relief to the needy
Salvation Army
Blamed capitalism for the depression
Communist party
Group of veterans that didn’t get their pay for going into the army
Bonus army
October 29, 1929 stock prices sank to a new low
Black Tuesday
The total values of all goods and services in a given years
Gross nation product
Success comes through individual effort and privet enterprise
Rugged individualism
Economic system in which private business ruins most industries , and competition determines how much goods cost and how much workers are paid.
Capitalism
Won the election of 1932 married to Eleanor
Franklin D. Roosevelt
