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Unit 6 Test Flashcards

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Muckraking

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Journalism exposing economic, social, and political evils, so named by Theodore Roosevelt for its “raking the muck” of American society

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Prohibition

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A ban on the production, transportation, and sale of liquor, achieved temporarily through state laws and the Eighteenth Amendment

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Initiative

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Procedure by which citizens can introduce a subject for legislation, usually through a petition signed by a specific number of voters

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Recall

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The process of removing an official from office by popular vote, usually after using petitions to call for such a vote.

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Referendum

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Submission of a law, proposed or already in effect, to a direct popular vote for approval or rejection

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16th amendment

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Constitutional revision in 1913 that authorized a federal income tax.

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17th amendment

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Constitutional change in 1913 that established the direct popular election of U.S. senators

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18th amendment

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Constitutional revision, adopted in 1919, that prohibited the production and sale of alcohol in the United States

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19th amendment

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Constitutional revision, that in 1920 established women citizen’s right to vote

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Yellow Press

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A deliberately sensational journalism of scandal and exposure designed to attract an urban mass audience and increase advertising revenues.

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Spheres of influence

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Regions dominated and controlled by an outside power

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Platt Amendment

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A stipulation to the United States has inserted into the Cuban constitution in 1901 restricting Cuban autonomy and authorizing U.S. intervention and naval bases.

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Espionage Act

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Law whose vague prohibition against obstructing the nation’s war effort was used to crush dissent and criticism during World War I.

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Sedition Act of 1918

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Broad law restricting criticism of America’s involvement in World War I or the American government, flag, military, taxes, or officials

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Selective Service Act of 1917

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The law establishing the military draft for World War I.

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Bolshevik

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Member of the Communist movement in Russia that established the Soviet government after the 1917 Russian Revolution

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Red Scare

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Post- World War I anti-Bolshevik hysteria in the United States directed against labor activists, radical dissenters, and some ethnic groups.

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Oligopoly

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An industry, such as steel making or automobile manufacturing, that is controlled by a few large companies

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Open Shop

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Factory or business employing workers whether or not they are union members; in practice, such a business usually refuses to hire union members and follows anti union policies.

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Yellow-dog contracts

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Employment agreements binding workers not to join a union

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Welfare capitalism

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A paternalistic system of labor relations emphasizing management responsibility for employee well-being

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Great Migration

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The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, spurred especially by new job opportunities during World War I and the 1920’s

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Harlem Renaissance

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A new African American cultural awareness that flourished in literature, art, and music in the 1920s.

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National Origins Act of 1924

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Law sharply restricting immigration on the basis of immigrants; national origins and discriminating against southern and eastern Europeans and Asians

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Volstead Act

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The 1920 law defining the liquor forbidden under the 18th Amendment and giving enforcement responsibilities to the Prohibition Bureau of the Department of the Treasury

26
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Multinational Corporations

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Firms with direct investments, branches, factories, and offices in a number of countries

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In the early twentieth century, about how many workers were injured at work each year?

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Half a million

28
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What type of people established and staffed settlement houses?

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Middle class young women because most careers were closed for them.

29
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What ideas/beliefs drove the “progressive movement”?

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Promote greater democracy and responsibility, improve the efficiency of government, eliminate corruption, or increase their own influence.

30
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What were some of the rationales for imperialism in the era 1890-1910?

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Racism and Social Darwinism, Righteousness, Mahanism, and Economics

31
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Which many social issues were generally ignored by progressive reformers?

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Social Control, Racism, Prohibition, immigration

32
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What social changes during the progressive ear enabled women to demand equal rights?

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The growing importance of women in the work force; the growth of women’s clubs/ the creation of other organizations

33
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What was the primary goal of the American government;s imperialistic policies?

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To expand American ideals and institutions into East Asia and Latin America

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What was the effect of the Platt Amendment?

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Restricted Cuban autonomy and granted U.S. the authority to intervene and house naval bases

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Self-determination

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The right of a people or nation to decide its own political allegiance or form of government without external influence

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What caused the East St. Louis Riot/Massacre?

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Fearful and resentful whites causing race riots

37
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The Treaty of Versailles placed sole responsibility for the start of World War I on who?

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Germany

38
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What happened when “real wages” failed to keep pace in the period from 1923-1927?

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Consumers began to rely more heavily on installment plans

39
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What improper government conduct was revealed in the Teapot Dome scandal?

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Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Fall became the first presidential cabinet member to go to prison

40
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Why did blacks migrate to the urban North from the South?

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To escape racial violence, pursue economic and educational opportunities, and obtain freedom from the oppression of Jim Crow

41
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How did the experience of World War I affect life in the 1920s?

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The US went from a debtor to a creditor nation, jazz, movies, radio and professional sports became popular, society was divided over issues such as alcohol use

42
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Where did the United States exert the most international influence in the 1920s?

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Latin America

43
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How were the Republicans perceived, in light of the war in Europe, and how did it help Wilson in the Election of 1916?

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The republicans were perceived as the war party. It helped Wilson because the people were against the war.

44
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What was one important effect of the collective importance of wartime agencies?

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It set a valuable precedent for government activism in the economy

45
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What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points and what issue did they focus on?

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The League of Nations and America’s War objectives- creating new nations, shifting old borders, or ensuring self determination for people previously subjected to a European empire.

46
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How did the war improve labor relations?

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War contracts ensured fair working conditions and wages.

47
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William McKinley

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Republican 1897-1901

48
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Theodore Roosevelt

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Republican 1901-1909

49
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William Taft

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Republican 1909-1913

50
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Woodrow Wilson

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Democrat 1913-1921

51
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Warren Harding

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Republican 1921-1923

52
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Calvin Coolidge

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Republican 1923-1929

53
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Herbert Hoover

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Republican 1929-1933

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