Mrs. Phillips Exam Vocab
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- Voting Problems
- fake names, voted twice, colored ballots, bribery, corruption
- Coal and Steel
- Spurred on Second Industrial Revolution, became more abundant and used to bulid railroads
- Big Stick Policy
- TEDDY ROOSEVELTS idea to maintain influence over other countrys.
- Spanish American War
- America fought Spain, trying to protect United States investments, to get revange for sinking of the USS Maine and help CUBA win INDEPENDENCE
- SPARK
- Franz Ferdinand (austria hungary) was assasinated by Gifford Pinchot (????)
- CENTRAL powers -(GAH!TB)
- GERMANY, austria hungary, TURKEY, bulgaria
- Laissez Faire economics
- NO GOVERNMENT REGULATION of any economic matters
- Boxer Rebellion
- 1900 rebellion where memebers of a Chinese Secret Society saught to free their country from Western Influence and Free Forigners out of china
- Margin Buying
- buying stock on credit
- Skyscrapers and Mass Transit
- contributed to upward and outward growth of cities
- Russian Revolution
- russia left WWI
- Sherman Anti-trust Act
- law enacted in 1896 that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfere with fair trade
- Great Upheval
- THe name of many labor strikes and rioting during the progressive era
- Inventors
- brilliant people who used their talents and work ethic to make life easier
- Settlement houses (Hull House)
- a community center providing assistance to residents particularly immigrants in the slum neighborhoods
- Assembly Line
- used in factories to make manufacturing easier, mass production
- Dollar Diplomacy
- United States policy to use economic power to win influence over other countries -WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
- American Federation of Labor
- SKILLED WORKERS. an alliance of trade and craft union formed in 1886 by Samual Gompers
- Four MAIN causes of GREAT DEPRESSION
- OVERPRODUCTION, EASY CREDIT, UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION INCOME, GLOBAL DEPRESSION
- Zimmerman note
- message sent in 1917 by Germany to Mexico telling Mexico that Germany would help them win over texas/arizona/newmexico. Great Britain (our allie) Intercepted it and sent it to the United Sates - a reason for our entrance into WWI
- Hawaii
- trade ports, sugar cane, naval base, trade-route to china, sinking of pearl harbor
- Great Migration
- movement of african americans from south to the northern cities for jobs
- Challenges to Neutrality
- sinking of lusitania, british blockade, unrestricted german u-boat warfare, zimmerman note
- Railroads
- made expansion of industry possible
- Rough Riders
- a volunteer calvary regiment commanded by Lenard Wood and Teddy Roosevelt - served in the Spanish American War
- Liberty Bonds
- wilson used these to finance war effort
- CUBA
- country where Spanish american War was fought
- Tenements
- a multi-family urban dwelling, usually over crowded and unsanitary
- Gilded Age
- Made the United States look ''golden" to its immigrants. really it was bad
- Andrew Carnegie
- STEEL tycoon and philanthropist
- Mexican Revolution
- caused a weird relationship between United States and Mexico
- Unions
- laborers who joined together to try and improve their working conditions, safety and better pay
- League of Nations
- Wilsons Plan to promote global peace , but United States never joined because it would just create another WW
- ALLIED powers
- GREAT BRITAIN, italy, UNITED STATES, russia, FRANCE