Mrs. Palmers Final Exam EXTRA vocab
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- vertical integration
- buy out suppliers
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- two men during the 20s who were excicuted because of their ethnicity. They were accused of killing and robbing a store and were then exicuted - later to be found not guilty.
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Germany's king - made to look like the worst man on earth during WWI
- Elisha Otis
- elevator
- Platt Amendment
- told cuba we would interefere with everything in their country after we won their independence
- horizontal integration
- buy out competition - ANDREW CARNEGIE
- Teller Amendment
- helped cuba win its independence during the spanish american war
- conspicious consumption
- people specifically buy items to prove wealth
- Pancho Villa
- mexican revolutionary who killed many americans in mexico. The United States sent John J Pershing to capture him but never did.
- nickname of the Spanish American War
- THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR because it was quick and didn't take long to fight - AMERICA WON!
- Date of Armistice
- When the Treaty of Versilles was signed - in the eleventh hour on the eleventh day in the eleventh month of 1918