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form of entertainment that was popular from 1830s to 70s

  • featured white performers who were made up as African Americans (blackface)
  • performed banjo and fiddle music, “shuffle” dances and lowbrow humor and reinforced racial stereotypes
  • most popular in antebellum states (northern states) and popular through 1920s
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minstrelsy

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used this for blackface

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cork

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original author of jim crow, considered father of American minstrelsy

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Thomas daddy rice

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by 1860s, people meant racial segregation this is known as..

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linguistic turn

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there was no racial segregation before the civil war because

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slaves were not regarded as humans

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slavery was not recognized in the…

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rebel states

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  • preserve the labor force

- laws passed in southern states to restrict the right of former slaves

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black codes

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  • 1st American sound songwriter of minstrel music
  • 2 versions of every song
  • songs are about slaves who have been sold away from slavery
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steven foster

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one of foster’s songs about anti slavery

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“My Old Kentucky Home”

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  • each letter of the alphabet describes a name of an African American slave on a fictional plantation in a rhyme that imitates southern black dialect
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ABC in Dixie: A Plantation Alphabet (1908)

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what are standards?

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lyrics

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a scary character who does not know his place

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Quentin in abc Dixie book

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  • black woman in Chicago old slave
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nancy green

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  • mammy, most vulnerable marketing woman
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aunt jemima

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  • not a slave
  • porter on pallis car
  • cook
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uncle ben

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  • talks about old south
  • no white person had a mammy
  • whites are losing ground
  • whites being confronted by middle class blacks
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When mammy made the pie poem 1901 by Leona t park

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Alabama jubilee is written by

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cobb and yellin 1915

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emerged into rag time

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jazz

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wrote swanee

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George Gershwin 1919

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reference to other minstrelsy songs

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a star is born

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  • performed by james basket
  • from movie song of the south
  • uncle tom in movie
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“zip-a-dee-do-dah” 1946

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  • warner bros

- making fun of old south

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southern fried rabbit 1953

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who are capitalist?

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plantation owners, and factory owners

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golden age of advertising

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consumerism 1920s

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1st person to arrange assembly line successfully

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henry ford

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  • based out of Chicago

- stocks everything

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sears roebuck

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27
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installment plan

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credit

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states that canned food has to be safe to eat

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pure food and drug act

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wealth of power is in ______ but not _______.

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  • u.s

- british isles

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men between what ages were killed in result from ww1?

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b/w 16 and 30

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what is the post ww2 version of the American dream?

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  • a house, a car, and 2.3 kids
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  • banker
  • retires in 20s
  • created the American dream
  • criticizes mass construction
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james truslow adams

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  • protestant

- 1st American female evangelist

A

amy mcphearson

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  • burn crosses
  • target jews, catholics, and lose women
  • protector of morality
  • excited about cars
  • work of Methodist minister in Georgia
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2nd KKK

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hoes

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flappers

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description of a flapper:

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  • short hair
  • makeup
  • actors
  • lips and cheeks red
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what is an image of a sin in the 20s?

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a girl riding alone in a car with a boy

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  • an attempt to reassurt church control
  • form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture
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fundamentalism

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39
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what was the missing link b/w apes and humans?

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cheddar man

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  • Christian missionary murdered by Russians
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john burke

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  • focuses on mind control
  • advocacy group supporting anti-communism and limited government. It has been described as a radical right and far-right organization.
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john burke society

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42
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programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. When Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering.

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new deal

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was founded in 1872 at a time when scientific advances were helping to reveal the causes of communicable diseases

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public health association

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44
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what was the issue in ww2?

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dental health

45
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supreme commander of Allied forces in Western Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day (June 6, 1944).

A

Dwight Eisenhower

46
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tool that Moscow used to manipulate Dwight into fluoridate water and mind control in children

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Milton Eisenhower

47
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protection against interference of the mind

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tin foil hat crowd

48
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aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society.

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communist

49
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everyone in society equally owns the factors of production

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socialist

50
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first totalitarian state to establish itself after World War One. In 1917, Vladimir Lenin seized power in the Russian Revolution, establishing a single-party dictatorship under the Bolsheviks. … Stalin had been involved in the Communist Party since before the Revolution.

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soviet union

51
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what was the danger of the cold war?

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the promise of extinction and self destruction

52
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took place in 1917 when the peasants and working class people of Russia revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas II. They were led by Vladimir Lenin and a group of revolutionaries called the Bolsheviks. The new communist government created the country of the Soviet Union.

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Russian revolution

53
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issued a call to all slave-holding states to send delegates to Nashville, Tenn., in order to form a united front against what was viewed as Northern aggression.

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Nashville convention

54
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was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the “Dred Scott case”.

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dredd scott

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  • determined to destroy capital

- led by lenin

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Bolsheviks

56
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living in exile in Germany bc they are convinced communist revolution is there but really happened in Russia

A

moltov and stalin

57
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union of soviet union called themselves

A

ussr

58
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known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.

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warsaw pact

59
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who never recognized soviet union until 2nd ww?

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Wilson and u.s

60
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U.S demands of what?

A

british empire

61
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what does stalin intend to do?

A

expand soviet power

62
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origin of the cold war?

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Potsdam conference

63
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was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. … The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations.Nov 9, 2009

A

Potsdam conference

64
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  • fall 1939
  • us govt. program that developed and built these first atomic bombs. Detonation of these first nuclear bombs signaled arrival of a frightening new Atomic Age.
  • effort of u.s to develop atomic weapons
  • location: oak ridge Tennessee bc it is a remote location
A

manhattan project

65
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  • celebrated on Tuesday, 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces
A

ve day

66
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what triggered to have the manhatten project?

A

Einstein’s letter to Roosevelt

67
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  • recruited to conduct experiments in new jersey
  • receives info from jewish phsycisits as to what their plan was
  • the scientists describe to Einstein a new branch of science (a new weapon) bc he was intelligent enough to understand
A

Einstein

68
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federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to tennessee valley

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tennesee valley authority

69
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was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

A

leslie groves

70
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called the “father of the atomic bomb” for leading the Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapon during World War II.

A

Robert Oppenheimer

71
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who had spies in new mexico?

A

Nazis

72
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how many weapons were made when Truman went to Potsdam?

A

3

73
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code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project.

A

trinity test site

74
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who said “i had become death?”

A

oppenheimer

75
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Truman drops bomb in what places?

A

hiroshema and nagosaki

76
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the u.s is easy to spy on because?

A

the u.s has a high immigration rate

77
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what happens in the U.S after WW2?

A
  • stalin launches warsaw pact and attacks china
  • americans discover rosenburgs were spies
  • soviets become aggressive
78
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had to contend with deteriorating U.S.-Soviet relations and the start of the Cold War (1946-1991).

A

Truman administration

79
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  • program of containing communism in eastern Europe

- provides economic and military aid to nay nations at risk of communist takeover

A

Truman doctorine

80
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  • post world war 2 program

- provides massive u.s financial and technical assistance to war- torn European countries

A

marshall plan 1948

81
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what are the administrations intentions?

A
  • attempt to create another war

- N.A.T.O

82
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  • defensive political and military alliance formed in 1949 by U.S, Canada, and Mexico
  • makes North America the largest free trade zone in the world
A

north atlantic treaty organization

83
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purpose of nato?

A
  • keep Germany down from expansion
  • U.S in
  • soviets out - counteracts soviet expansion
84
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why will u.s use nato?

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to keep soviet aggression down

85
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what was the end result of the populist revolt?

A
  • attacking the worship of wealth
86
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what type of capital do capitalists believe in?

A

surplus

87
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  • believed in the power of government to effect positive change in the lives of the people they served
  • not the same as todays liberals
  • early 20th century
  • govt. as an instrument to make something happen
A

a progressive

88
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  • believed in experts and that they know best
  • refer to an expert for confirmation or decline
  • climate science
A

progressives

89
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what makes someone an expert?

A

production level

90
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type of progressive

A

mugwamps, goo- goos

91
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  • republican in 1884
  • concerned in consumption in self service
  • result of people being appointed to govt. jobs based on political loyalty
A

mugwamps

92
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  • good govt. progressive
  • in favor of reforms of the political system
  • previously senators elected by legislature
A

goo- goos

93
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what was an example of a goo-goos work?

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state level civil service exam, 17th amendment

94
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what were the progressive early results?

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  • ICC
  • Pendleton act
  • Sherman anti- trust act
  • (all of these were use of govt. to effect change and all have to do with commerce)
95
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  • used to clean barns
  • attempts to use works (living conditions, and capitalist control)
  • group of writers, including the likes of Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell, during the Progressive era who tried to expose the problems that existed in American society as a result of the rise of big business, urbanization, and immigration.
A

muck rackers

96
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who wrote the jungle?

A

upton Sinclair

97
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the octopus was about? and who wrote it?

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about Rockefeller; ida tarbell

98
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who are the religious progressives?

A
  • catholic

- episcopal

99
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  • someone who is worried about immigrant living conditions, health, and sanitation
A
  • Jane Adams
100
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  • focus on working conditions
A

woman and children

101
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at what ages are boys put to work?

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7/8

102
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why boys in textile factories?

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bc small hands and cheap to replace them

103
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  • 1st progressive president
  • concerned with conservationism
  • trying to build up republican support in south by kissing up to bourbon democrat
  • wants to improve his reputation in south
  • invites booker t. Washington to dinner with him and percy
A

Theodore Roosevelt

104
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  • u.s senator from Mississippi
  • not a progressive democrat but more moderate
  • ran both his law practice and plantations with a vengeance, and by the early 1900s he controlled plantations exceeding 20000 acres.
  • confronting Ku Klux Klan organizers in Greenville and uniting local people against them
A

Leroy percy

105
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  • goes about trust, banks, etc.
A

malefactors of wealth

106
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” carrying a big stick “

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trust busting

107
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1904

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square deal

108
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concerned about disease/ epidemics

  • clean slums to protect selves from catching diseases
  • not a socially liberal person, motivatedly by religious zeal
  • want to control someone else’s morality
A

temperance

109
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  • want to out law the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverage
A

women’s Christian temperance union

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