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Gilded Age - Roaring 20s Flashcards

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What is the Gilded Age known as, and what did Gilded mean?

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The Progressive era, and Gilded meant that it was golden on the surface but corrupt underneath

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Who coined the term “Gilded Age”?

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Mark Twain

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What are the 6 characteristics of the Gilded Age?

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  1. Greed, scandal, and corruption in the gov. and industry
  2. Move from Agrarian society to an Industrial society
  3. Unprecedented economic growth
  4. USA becomes an emerging world power
  5. Mass immigration
  6. Unequal distribution of wealth between the “Haves” and “Have Nots”
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What are the 3 reasons as to why people immigrated?

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  1. To escape religious and political persecution
  2. Escape poverty
  3. Start a new life
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What did most immigrants come to the US on?

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Steam Boats

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Where did most immigrants land on?

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New York if they came from Europe and San Francisco if they came from Asia

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What was the “Golden Gate” that welcomes the immigrants in New York?

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The Statue of Liberty

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What welcomed immigrants in San Francisco?

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Golden Gate Bridge

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Emma Lazarus

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Wrote poem about the Statue of Liberty

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What did immigrants have to pass through before entering the country?

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Immigration Centers

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What 2 processing is needed to pass to immigrate to the US

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  1. Medical inspection
  2. Legal inspection
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Ethnic Islands

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Area made up of one ethnicity

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Sweat shops

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Dark, crowded and unsafe clothing factories

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2 Multicultural Theories of Assimilation

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  1. Melting Pot Theory - abandon individual cultures and assimilate to American culture
  2. Mixed Salad - integrate different cultures in American culture
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Old immigrants

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Norther/Western Europe: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP)

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New immigrants

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Southern/Eastern Europe and Asia

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Immigration Restriction League

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Nativism

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only wanting native-born Americans

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The American Party

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“Know-Nothing”; political party designed to restrict and stop immigration.

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What does NINA mean

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No Irish Need Apply

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Stopped Chinese immigration for 30 years

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Gentlemen’s Agreement

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Limited Japanese immigration to America

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Immigration Act

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Required immigrants to read and write to enter America

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What were the working class known as?

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Have-Nots

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Where did working class live in?

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Dumbbell tenements

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Where did the middle class live in?

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Row Houses

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What was the Trolly/Streetcar

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First mass transit

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What were Political Machines?

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A group that controlled the activities of a political party led by a party boss

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what is Graft?

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Illegal use of political influence for personal gain

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What was Tammany Hall?

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Most infamous Political Machine; also known as “Tweed Ring”

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Who ran Tammany Hall?

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William Tweed

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Ulysses S. Grant

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The only US president that was not corrupt during the Gilded Age

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Thomas Nast

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Journalist who drew political cartoons to expose corruption.

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Railroads

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The “linchpin” that connected America

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Thomas Edison

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Creates first incandescent light (electricity)

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Bourgeoisie/Robber Barons

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Private Business owners

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Railroad

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JP Morgan

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Banking

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Andrew Carnegie

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Steel

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John D. Rockefeller

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Oil/kerosene

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Industrial workers/Proletariat

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Backbone of capitalism

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Progressive Era

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Period of widespread social activism

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Jacob Riis

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Journalist/Photographer that showed “how the other Half lived”

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Lewis Hines

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Photographer that exposed the evils of child labor

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Upton Sinclair

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Exposed unsanitary conditions in the meet industry

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Muckrakers

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Reformers/progressives

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James Weaver

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Founder of the Populist Party

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Washington Gladden

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founder of Social Gospel Movement; salvation through service to the poor

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Settlement Houses

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provided services to the poor

49
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YMCA

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Young Men’s Christian Association

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George Williams

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Founder of the YMCA

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William Booth

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Founder of Salvation Army

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Jane Addams

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Founder of the Hull House

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Strikes

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Stoppage of work

54
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MAIN

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Causes of the Great war

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Otto Von Bismarck

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German prime minister who created the Alliance System

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Triple Alliance

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

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Triple Entente

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Great Britain, France, Russia, and USA

58
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WW1 was a…

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Big family feud

59
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The Powder keg of Europe

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Balkan Peninsula

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Pan-Slavism

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to create a Slavic state called Yugoslavia

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Balkans Wars

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Led to even that cause the great war

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Franz Ferdinand

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Archduke of Austria-Hungary

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Franz Joseph

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King of Austria-Hungary

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Sarajevo

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place the archduke did the goodwill tour and was assassinated

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Black Hand

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Serbian terrorist group

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Gavrilo Princep

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Assassinated the Archduke of Austria-Hungary

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Mobilization

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Countries begin preparing for war

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Manfred Von Richthofen

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Red Baron

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Schlieffen Plan

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Germany’s plan to attack France through Belgium

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Battle of Somme

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A battle where the allies gained 7 miles of turf

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Battle of Verdun

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Largest and longest of WW1

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War of Attrition

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Wearing the other side out

73
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What are the nick names of soldiers in each country in WW1?

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Germany - Huns
British - Tommies
French - Frogs
Americans - Doughboys/Sams

74
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Nicholas II

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Russian Czar

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Gallipoli Campaign

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British attempt to rescue Russia

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Bolshevik (Socialist Democratic Party)

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Communist

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Mensheviks

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Democratic

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Joseph Stalin

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Most brutal Russian dictator

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Great Purge

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Joseph Stalin killing or imprisoning over a million people

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Isolationism

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Staying out of European affairs

81
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Arthur Zimmerman

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Ambassador for Germany

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Woodrow Wilson

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US pres. during WW1 that declared the war was to make the world safe for democracy

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John Perching

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In charge of US army in WW1

84
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American Expeditionary Force

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US Army

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George V

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King of Great Britain

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Spanish Flu

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One of the greatest Holocaust in history

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Paris

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Peace treaty talk

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David Lloyd

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Prime minister of Great Britain

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George Clemenceau

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Leader of France

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Vittorio Orlando

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Prime Minister of Italy

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Wilson’s Fourteen Points

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Woodrow Wilson’s Peace Plan

92
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What did Woodrow Wilson want?

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Peace without victory

93
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Point 14

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Established the League of Nations

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Treaty of Versailles

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Germany blamed for the war and forced to sign an agreement to accept the blame

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The Roaring 20s

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era of great prosperity

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