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What was the Dawes act

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Authorized the president of the United States to take American Indian tribal land and divide it into reservations

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Sherman antitrust act

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Tried to ban monopolies but business leaders were too powerful

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Terrence Powderly

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Fought for better conditions

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Define riots

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Violence and Bad reputation

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What did Samuel Gompers believe in

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Employing only skilled workers

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What were the causes and effects of the triangle shirt waist factory fire

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Cause A lid cigar fell on scraps of clothing left on the floor the doors and windows are locked shut and the workers couldn’t get out

Effects over 100 people died due to the lack of fire exits

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Who were the new immigrants

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Came over after the 1860s

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Who is Emma Lazarus

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And emigrant poet who wrote the Statue of Liberty Poem

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What a nativists have anti-immigrant feelings

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Immigrants were taking their jobs didn’t learn a language crowded cities and had different ways of life

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Boss Tweed

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Promise government jobs in service to immigrants in exchange for votes

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What effect it Upton Sinclair have

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He wrote the jungle which showed how disgusting the conditions were in meatpacking industry

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What did Jacob Riis do for the progressive movement

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He wrote how the other half lives

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What did web Dubois do for African-Americans

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He promoted equal rights

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What did Ida Tarbell do for the progressive movement

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She wrote a book exposing John D Rockefeller business practices and a history of standard oil

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What is a settlement house

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A place that provides education and programs for immigrants

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How did the progressives attempt to change the

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Referendum initiatives recall and primaries

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List did humans of theater Roosevelt

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Stopped monopolies

Past the pure food and drug act

Pass the square deal

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19th amendment

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Women gain voting right

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Yellow journalism

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Over exaggeration

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I’ll Pacific nations to the US acquire

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Japan – signed treaty of, Kanazawa

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Spheres of influence

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European countries got info from China

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Open door policy

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The European countries wanted to keep their doors open and trade with China

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Why did the US get involved in the Caribbean

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Acted like the police of the region

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Big stick policy

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Asked nicely first

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Roosevelt corollary

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US was the placement of Latin America

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Define MANIA

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Militarism
Alliance system 
Nationalism
Imperialism
 Assassination
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Will begin ww1

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Arch Duke franz of Austria hungry was assassinated

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Central Powers

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Germany, Austria, Hungary, turkey.

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Allied powers

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Great Britain, France, Russia

30
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Why did the US become involved in World War I

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Sicking of American ship by German

Zimmerman telegram – Germany Asked mexico to go to war against the US

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What was the selective service act

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Recruiting all men 21 to 30

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Who did administration do

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gave the gov the authority to control prices

33
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Victory garden

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Gardens growing to save food for war effort

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Liberty bonds

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Money for governor/army

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How is propaganda used during the war

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Persuade Americans to help with the war

36
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Treaty of Versallies

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Pushed all blame for war on Germany

37
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Which factors led to the prosperity of the 1920s

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Buying items on credit

Growth of car

More consumer goods

38
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Teapot Dome scandal

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To cabinet members caught selling on government

39
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Define margin

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Buying goods on credit

40
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What were the effects of the automobile

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Provided job and steel industry grew

41
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18th and 21st amendment

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18th amendment for Hibbetts alcohol 21st amendment ends prohibition of alcohol

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What was the red scare

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Panic where Americans feared that communism

43
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Who was KKK

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2 million members who spread do you patriot from African-Americans Jews Catholics and immigrants

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Causes of the Great Depression

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Business over produced goods and weak banks give out too many loans

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Trickle-down effect

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Give money to big businesses

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How did people respond to Hoovers policies

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He didn’t do enough to erase the suffering

47
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How did Franklin D Roosevelt respond to the great depression

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Pump up the economy and created the three r’s relief recovery reform

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Define Social Security

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Gave money to anyone 65 or older

49
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FDIC

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Maintains and regulates money

50
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Arguments for and against the new deal

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Four – and did the banking crisis and protected our democratic system

Against – made deficit spending

51
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Causes and effects of the dustbowl

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Cause drought and overuse of land

Effects lasted eight years

52
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List the countries and waiters on Allied and axis side of the war

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Allied – France England USSR and US

Axis: Italy Germany Japan

53
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How did America eventually enter the war

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The attack on Pearl Harbor

54
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How did woman help the war effort

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Woman helped out in factories and homefront ( Rosie the river)

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