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- graft
- getting money in a dishonest way
- Josiah Strong
- A popular American minister in the late 1800's
- AG Bell
- in 1877 invented the telephone
- Fordney McCumber Act
- (1922) raised tariffs dramatically in effort to protect American indusry from foreign competition
- black tuesday
- stock market droppes 10 to 15 billion dollars
- monopoly
- a single company acheives control of an entire market
- Laissez-faire
- a policy that said that the government should interfere as little as possible in the economy
- victory gardens
- For americans to raise their own vegtables, leaving more for the troops
- George Dewey
- US commodore
- grandfather clause
- in Louisiana allowed any man to vote of he had an ancestor on the voting rolls in 1867
- jingoism
- an attitude of aggressive nationalism, was very strong, especially among young members of the party
- Triple Entente
- Brittan, France,Russia
- stock
- shares of ownership
- mass production
- large scale product manufacturing usually done by machinery
- segregation
- separation of the races
- stockholders
- people who own the corporations
- arbitration
- settling a dispue by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider
- holding company
- a company whose primary business in owning a controlling share of stock in other companies
- Joseph Pulitzer
- owned the "New York World"
- "Big Stick Policy"
- "Speak softly and carry a big stick"
- Treay of Versailles
- Treay signed by the Germans that weakened Wilson's proposals
- tariff
- a tax between countries
- Fridge Car
- first refrigerated rail road car that helped the meat stay 'good"
- no man's land
- rough barren landscape pockmarked with craters from the artillery fire
- suffrage
- The right to vote
- reparations
- payment by the losing country in war to the winner for the damages caused by war
- square deal
- Theodore Roosevelt's promise of fair and equal treatment for all
- trenches
- a deep hole
- pools
- agreements to maintain prices at a certain level
- lynching
- executions without proper court proceedings
- foreclosure
- to take posession of a property from a mortagor because of defaults on payments
- Model T
- Ford's first assembly line product also known as "Tin Lizzie" or "Flivver"
- poll tax
- requiring that all citizens registering to vote pay $2
- 15th Amendment
- prohibited states from deneying citizens the right to vote based on race, color or previous condition of servitude
- neutral
- not taking a certain side
- contraband
- prohibited materials to prevent neutral countries from shippping food to Germany
- operating costs
- costs that occur while running a company
- self determination
- people who belong to a nation should have their own country and government
- Agitiation
- the stategy of WEB DuBois, who believed that demanding equal rights was the way to go
- Accommodation
- the strategy of Booker T. Washington, who belived that protest and inpacience were not the ways to go
- William Randolph Hearst
- owned the New York Journal
- chain stores
- a group of similar stores owned by the same company
- Treaty of Brest- Litovsk
- the agreement between Russia and Germany that forced Russia to lose some of its territory, but also removed Germany from the remaining Russian lands
- entrepreneur
- someone who organizes, manages and knows the risks of a business
- fixed costs
- costs a company must pay regardless of whether or not it is operating
- Plessy vs. Ferguson
- "Separate but equal"
- Panama Canal
- A canal that runs through Panama
- Balkans
- nationalism led to a crisis in southeastern europe in the region called the Balkans
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- in 1906, this act prohibited the manufacture, sale or shipment of impure or fasley labeled food and drugs
- Meat Inspection Act
- Federal inspection of meat sold through interstate commerce and required the Agriculure Department to set standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plants
- sugarcane
- place where you produce sugar
- San Juan Heights
- place in Cuba that was attacked by America soldiers
- nationalism
- loyality and devotion to a nation
- conscription
- requiring people to enter military services
- Sussex Pledge
- met foreign policy goals of both germany and pres. Wilson, keeping the US out of the war longer
- bull market
- long period of rising stock prices
- Franz Ferdinand
- the heir to the Austria-Hugary throne
- 19th Amendment
- Guaranteeing women the right to vote
- Central Powers
- Austria-Hungary,Germany, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
- political(party) bosses
- people encharge of the political machine
- army nursing corps.
- the only women to actually serve in the army
- relief
- money that went directly to impoverished families
- skyscrapers
- tall, steel frame buildings
- doughboys
- nickname "new" American soldiers
- poison gas
- fumes that caused vomiting, blidness, and suffacation
- Alliance
- huge empire that controlled much of Southeastern Europe
- propaganda
- information designed to influence or persuad an opinion
- armistice
- cease fire-ending war
- guerrilla warfare
- a hit and run techniqque used in fighting a war
- okies
- mig usualrants from oklahoma
- imperialism
- the economic and political domination of a strong nation over weaker one
- horizontal integration
- the combining of competing firms into one corporation
- selective service
- required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the draft
- protectorate
- the imperial power allowed the local rulers to stay incontrol and protected them against rebellions and invasion
- convoys
- merchant ships and troop transports be gathered into groups
- GNP(gross national product)
- total value of all goods and services produced by a country
- literacy test
- a test that required that voters be able to read or understand the constitution
- vertical integration
- the combining of companies that supply the equipment and services needed for a particular industry
- "Boss" Tweed
- the democratic political machines' corrupt leader during the 1860's and 1870's