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Jane Addams

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  • Hull House Founder (settlement house)
  • spent her lifetime battling for garbage removal, playgrounds, better street lighting, and police protection.
  • immigration
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Progressive Era

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Suffrage, Civil rights, Conservation, Safety, Political reforms

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Imperialist Era

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Industrialized countries sought control of other countries for raw materials and new markets

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Big Stick Policy

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Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy

-using military force for imperialism

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Antiquities Act of 1906

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  • More National Parks

- Allows president to set aside “objects of historic and scientific interest” as national monuments

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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  • Can’t manufacture or sell mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs
  • FDA
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NAACP (National Association for the Advancment of Colored People) 1908

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Civil rights group

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“Moral Diplomacy”

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President Wilson’s foreign policy

  • condemed imperialism
  • spread democracy
  • containment
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Triangle Fire 1911

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A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

- Workers were locked in and could not escape the fire

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Ludlow Massacre 1914

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An attack on stiking coal miners by the National Guard that resulted in up to 25 deaths.

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Child Labor Act 1916

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  • limited the working hours of children and forbade the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor
  • later ruled unconstitutional
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World War I

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  • Nationalism- Ethnic groups want their own nations
  • Allies: Germany+Austria Hungary+Ottoman Empire, Russia+France+Britain+Serbia
  • Ends with League of Nations and Treaty of Versailles
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Assembly Line

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  • Created by Henry Ford

- increased car output

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Red Summer

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Summer of 1919- Race riots

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Immigration Quota Act of 1924

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-Slashes immigration from non-WASP countries

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Palmer Raids

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  • government actions against suspected radicals, anarchists, and communists
  • Targeted “radicals” and immigrants
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Red Scare #1

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  • Fear of communism, hysteria
    • Emma Goldman. An outspoken radical who was deported after being arrested on charges of being an anarchist, socialist, or labour agitator.
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Great Migration

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the migration of millions of African Americans from the South to the North and West

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19th Ammendment 1920

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Gave women the right to vote

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Duke Ellington

Louis Armstrong

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Influential jazz musicians

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Temperance/Prohibtion

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Ban of alchohol

-women against domestic violence

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Harlem Renaissance

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A cultural explosion of African Americans music, art and literature

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Scopes Monkey Trial

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A substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

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Great Depression 1929-1941ish

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  • Massive wealth inequalities
  • credit overextends, banks fail
  • Stock Market crash Oct. 1929
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Dust Bowl

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a severe drough hit the Great Plain, killing all of the crops of the region

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FDR’s New Deal

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  • Kynesian Economics
  • goov. stimulates and helps economy
  • Programs to fight Great Depression
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Frances Perkins Secretary. of Labor 1933-1945

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1st woman ever appointed to cabinet for FDR

-Helped with New Deal