History FInal 2006 Humanities 1
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- Paterson Silk Strike
- Increased from 2 looms to 4 but with no increase in pay
- Manifest Destiny
- US expanded westward to teh pacific ocean and into Mexican Territory
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Prohibited all Chinese except students teachers merchants tourists and government officials from entering the US
- Nativists
- Favoring the interests of native born people over foreign people
- Assimilation
- Minority Groups adopted of the beleifs and ways of life of the dominate culture
- Ghetto
- a city neighborhood in which a certain minority group is pressured or forced to live
- Yellow Journalism
- Use of sensational and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magizines to attract readers.
- Imperialism
- Policy of extending a nations authority or other countries by econmic, political or military means
- William H Taft
- President at the start of the Paterson Silk Strike
- Upton Sinclair
- Mukraking Journalist... Wrote the Jungle
- Zimmerman Note
- Message sent in 1917 by the German Foreign Minster to the Ambassitory in mexico Proposing German Mexican Alliance and prounounces to help Mexico region Tx Nm AZ in the US
- Mukraker
- One of the magazine journalists who exposed the corupt side of buisness and public life in teh early 1900's
- Pure food and Drug Act
- Law enacted in 1906 to hault the sale of Contaminated foods and drugs and to ensure truth in labelings
- Populists
- People who beleived everyone had a voice in the government
- Cornelius Vanderbit
- Supplier of all the Railroads
- acculturation
- modification of the culture of a group or individual as a result of contact with a different culture
- William McKinley
- Spanish-American War (1898), the annexation of Cuba and the Philippines, an open-door policy with China,
- Antitrust legislation
- law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
- Lincoln Steffen's
- American journalist. As managing editor of McClure's Magazine (1902-1906), he exposed governmental corruption in a series of articles, thereby inaugurating the era of muckraking journalism.
- Sinclair Lewis
- American novelist who satirized middle-class America in his 22 works
- Emma Lazarus
- American writer. Her poem “The New Colossus†is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty in Upper New York Bay.
- Jingoism
- We think we have an obligation to do so
- Russian Revolution
- period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922
- Triple Entente
- Great Britian, France, Russia, Serbia, Italy
- Lusitania
- An ancient region and Roman province of the Iberian Peninsula. It corresponded roughly to modern-day Portugal.
- Versailles Treaty
- Peace Treaty end of WW1 established new nation borders and war reps.
- War Reparations
- The act or process of repairing or the condition of being repaired.
- League of Nations
- promote international cooperation and peace
- Andrew Carnegie
- amassed a fortune in the steel industry and donated millions of dollars for the benefit of the public.
- Henry Ford
- American automobile manufacturer who developed a gasoline-powered automobile
- The Gospel of Wealth
- essay written by industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that described the responsibility of philanthropy of the new upper class of self-made monopolists
- Henry Clay Frick
- United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses
- Theodore Roosevelt
- hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration;
- Woodrow Wilson
- led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations
- Grover Cleveland
- The 22nd and 24th President of the United States
- Warren Harding
- 29th President of the United States;
- Benjamin Harrison
- The first Pan-American Conference took place (1889) during his administration.