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- Emigration
- The act of leaving a country to settle in another
- Capital
- money in the form of saving that is invested in a business
- Socialism
- program of government and ownership and regulation of certain industries [Railroads]
- sniper
- a marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place
- Lock
- an eclosed chamber in a dam or canal with gates at each end raising or lowering vessels by admitting or releasing water
- Rebate
- a payment given back to a person or company that purchases a good or service
- Woodrow Wilson
- threatened to cut off ties with Germany because of the sinking of the Lusitania (US ship); asked for a declaration of war and Congress agreed ; Treaty of Versailles
- William Gorgas
- Army physician who helped eradicate Yellow Fever and Malaria from Panama so work on the Panama Canal could proceed
- Persecute
- to treat curelly or harshly because of political, religious or other differences
- Textile
- cloth or fabric made by weaving threads together
- Investor
- person who lends or uses money for a business deal in order to make more money
- George Dewey
- U.S. naval commander who led the American attack on the Philippines
- Yellow Journalism
- journalism that exploits, distorts or exaggerates the news to create sensation and attract readers
- Shrapnel
- shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight
- Jane Addams
- Founded most famous settlement house in American history, the Hull House in Chicago.
- Scapegoat
- person or group who is made to bear the blame for others
- Andrew Carnegie
- controlled all phases of the steel industry; believed in the "gospel of wealth"
- George Goethals
- supervised the Panama Canal when things got bad
- Article 10
- "if territory of a member was threatened, US might have to go to war" --is war necessary
- Upton Sinclair
- Author of "The Jungle" - a book describing the unhealthy conditions in the meat packing plants of Chicago
- Discrimination
- Unfair treatment because of a person's race, sex, religion, age, or physical condition
- Torpedo
- a cigar shaped, self-propelled underwater projectile launched from a plane, ship or submarine and designed to detonate on contact with or in the vicinity of the target
- Trust
- organization of companies formed with the intention of controlling an industry
- Anarchist
- person who wants to do away with all government
- Imperialism
- the policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acuisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)
- Alliance
- an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
- Ferdinand de Lesseps
- French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894)
- mobilize
- to prepare military forces for war
- Flank
- the side of military or naval formation
- Suffrage
- the right to vote
- barrage
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- Ellis Island
- inspection station for immigrants arriving on the East coast
- Immigration
- migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
- Samuel Gompers
- founder of American Federation of Labor
- Ida B. Wells
- against lynching (illegal hanging); wrote the book Red Record which was about the illegal hangings
- WEB Dubois
- 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910;brake the color line...demanded equal rights
- Oratory
- the practice of giving speeches or reciting poems and essays for an audience
- No-Mans Land
- wasteland between the front line trench to another trench; usually very muddy and nasty
- Inflation
- the process that makes money more widely available and therefore less valuable
- Jacob Riis
- a photo Journalist in the late 1800s whose book how the other half lives exposed the awful conditions of NYC's slums and poor people
- Political Machine
- organized group within a political party that is strong enough to control the party
- Capitalism
- money in the form of saving that is invested in a business
- John J. Pershing
- Lt of the Buffalo Soldiers; nick-name "Black John Pershing"
- Thomas Edison
- man whose inventions changed the way Americans lived and also created whole new industries
- Annexation
- the act or process of incorporating a territory into an exsisting country or state
- Ida Tarbell
- muckraker who targeted the unfair practices of big business. Her articles about the standard oil company led to demands for tighter controls on trust.
- Theodore Roosevelt
- president;progressive politic ; bigs areas of involvement are conservation, Sherman Anti Trust Act, and Pure Food Drug Act
- stalemate
- deadlock; situation in which further action is blocked
- Attrition
- A decrease in size or numbers
- J.D. Rockefeller
- created a monopoly of the oil industry
- Franz Ferdinand
- Archduke of Austria, assassinated \ his death was one of the main causes for WWI.
- William Tweed
- political machines and boss; boss of Tammany Hall; controlled the Democratic Party in New York City; went to jail; nick-name "Boss Tweed"
- Sweatshop
- place where people work for low pay and in uncomfortable conditions
- William Jennings Bryan
- wrote the "Cross of Gold" speech
- Editorial
- an article in a newspaper or magazine which expresses the opinion of a publisher or editor
- Regulate
- to bring under the control of the law
- Muckraker
- a journalist who informs the public about corruption in business