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46 Cards in this Set
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george dewey
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admiral in the us navy, won the battle of manila bay in spam war, instantly promoted to natl hero
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john hay
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negotiated the treaty of paris to end spam war, ESTABLISHED OPEN DOOR IN CHINA
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alfred mahan
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convinced everyone that naval power (and colonial base stations) were the way to world dominance with his book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
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gifford pinchot
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advocated forest conservation!
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walter reed
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cured yellow fever, which allowed for building of panama canal
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Ida tarbell
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muckraker who wrote The History of Standard Oil
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lincoln steffens
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literary figure who wrote Shame of Cities and exposed the corruption of cities (muckraker)
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albert beveridge
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expansionist senator for Indiana
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edward bellamy
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SOCIALIST, wrote Looking Backwards
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richard olney
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said that us should arbitrate w/ britain when it came to the venezuelan conflict, he was sec of state under mckinley
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Ida tarbell
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muckraker who wrote The History of Standard Oil
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lincoln steffens
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literary figure who wrote Shame of Cities and exposed the corruption of cities (muckraker)
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albert beveridge
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expansionist senator for Indiana
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edward bellamy
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SOCIALIST, wrote Looking Backwards
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richard olney
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said that us should arbitrate w/ britain when it came to the venezuelan conflict, he was sec of state under mckinley
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henry george
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pushed socialist agenda
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henry james
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wrote The Portrait of Lady and Daisy Miller to show the struggles/life of a american women
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election of 1900
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MCKINLEY (r) vs. wjb, full dinner pail vs. free silver
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Sept. 1901
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mckinley is assasinated, roosevelt takes over office
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election of 1904
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TR (r) vs. parker, TR wins in a landslide victory, his progressive reforms were popular among citizens
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election of 1908
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TAFT (r) vs. wjb vs. debs, Taft is picked by roosevelt to be successor and promises to keep progressive agenda, debs gets a surprising amount of votes
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election of 1912
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taft vs. WILSON vs. tr, tr becomes pissed at taft and tries to run for president again, splits republicans with his bull moose campaign, wilson becomes minority president
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election of 1916
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WILSON (d) vs. hughes, wilson promises to keep us neutral
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election of 1920
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HARDING (r) vs. cox v. debs, debs runs from prison
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progressive party/bull moose party
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faction formed by TR, breaks away from repubs, splitting the 1912 election
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George Creel
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head of the Office of Public Info, creates a shitload of propaganda
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elkins act of 1903
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strengthens interstate-commerce act ESTABLISHES SET RAILROAD RATES
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pure food and drug act of 1906
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establishes higher inspection standards for meat, better food quality
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payne-aldrich tariff of 1909
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intended to lower certain tariffs, but so many amendments are tacked on that tariffs are actually raised
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16th amendment of 1913
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overrides polluck v. farmers loan and trusts, legalizes an income tax, says that the income tax does not have to be equal
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federal reserve act of 1913
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passed in response to panic of 1907, "bails" out certain banks and allows for more flexible currency, establishes 12 fed reserve districts
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underwood tariff of 1913
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lowered payne-aldrich tariff and revised the income tax
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clayton anti-trust act of 1914
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LEGALIZED TRADE UNIONS! yesss :)
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18th ammendment
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said all alcohol was illegal
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19th ammendment
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women's suffrage
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DeLome Letter
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letter found and made public that said mckinley was a wimp, PERPETUATES the us entry into SPAM WAR
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insular cases
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decides that each new colony will be granted full us rights on a case to case basis (does const. follow the flag?)
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boxer rebellion in 1900
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between the two open door notes, boxers were young patriotic chinese men that seized the embassies, justified the us's the second open door note
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american anti-imperialist league
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formal group of oppostion to imperialism based on "nativism" and sort of moral ground
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war industries board
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to keep economy smooth, keep factories open, settle disputes between labor/trusts
KEEP THE BULLETS CHURNING |
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urban league
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created by af-ams DURING GILDED AGE, precursor to NAACP
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octopus
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written by fran norris muckraker, talks about EVIL RAILROAD TRUSTS
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jacob riis
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dutch guy who writes How The Other Half Lives, expose of urban working conditions, PHOTOJOURNALIST TOO
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hepburn act
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gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates (no more free price setting)
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pujo committee
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to investigate the so-called "money trust", a community of Wall Street bankers and financiers that exerted powerful control over the nation's finances
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niagara movement
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black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, to bring about a "waterfall" of social change
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