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Industrialism
Industrialism changed the entire social structure. It changed religous views, education and the rise of women is society. It also made economic structures bigger because of new tenology advances. -
social darwinism
social darwanism was teh white peoples duty as they put it so they could share their technology breakthroughs with the world and we had togo invade other countries so that we could share these -
manifest destiny
manifest destiny was the white beliefs to spread west and bring electricity and urbanisation to "the less wealthy. -
HomeStead Act
The Homestead act was signed by president Abraham Lincoln, which allowed anyone over 21 to file an application to claim federal land. The land was 160 acres and required residency. -
isolationism
Was basicly what the name says it was a goverments want or need to be isolized from everything else that was going on for eexamples a world war -
Alled powers
alllied powers was a group in WW1 that consited of Canada Australia New Zealand S.Africa India and later joined the USA -
Central powers
The central powers inWW1 were Germany Austria-Hungery Belgum Otanana empire -
Nationalism
nationalism was a exteam pride for your country to the point of unrealistic reasons it was a cause and a big factor in the world wars -
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Progressive
New ideas and honest, efficient government could bring about social justice. Its main goal was to make the government more pure. -
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Imperialism
America first started imperialism by going into the Mexican-American war and then started to take other territories such as california, philippines and more. -
USS Maine
The USS Maine was the United State's Navy BattleShip and it was best known for exploding in Havana Harbor. The ship was sent to protect U.S. interest during the Cuban revolt against Spain. -
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Spanish american war
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Muckraker
Before world war 1 muckraker meant writers who writes truthful reports and write about corruption. The term came from John Bunyan's book named Pilgrims Progress but it became know after president Teddy Roosevelt speech "The Man With The Muck Rake". -
Prohibition
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Teddy Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States and is the youngest person to become president. Teddy Roosevelt won the the noble in 1905 for ending the war for Japan and Russia. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair wrote many books but his most famous one was written in 1906 called The Jungle. The books exposed the U.S meat packing industry which caused a uproar that contributed in the Pure Food and Drug Act. -
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Gentlemen's Agreement
The Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 was between th United states and the Empire of Japan. It agreed that the U.S would not impose restrictions on Japanese immigration and Japan would not allow further emmigration to the U.S. -
Tammany Hall
Was how all of the polititions in new york were running everything and the people didnt like it -
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Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was the 18th president and a leader of the progressive era. President Wilson also was the one who got the U.S into world war 1. -
Militarism
militarism by defintion is like flexing your muscles for example when we sent our big naval ships around the world that were white to say ha! we got new big muscles and wants us to compete in a war almost -
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand was an Archduke of Austria and a royal prince of Hungary and Bohemia. He was assassinated in 1914 which caused Austria-hungary to declare war against Seribia. -
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World War 1
World War 1 begained with the assassination of ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand. Many countries get involved in this war which led millions of people to die. The war was horrible the conditions of the places was terrible. America enters the war in 1915 which helped the ally powers gain an advantage to win the war. World War 1 ends in 1918 and the treaty of Versailles is written. -
Panama Canal
Panama was made because America wanted a short way from Pacific to Alantic oceans. America helped Panama revolution which granted them the accese to creat the canal. -
Zimmerman Note
The zimmermen note was a encripted telagram sent to mexico telling them that germany could be of financhil help to them in this "Great War" and the US found out about this note and broke the code so then they put a decripted version of the note in a spanish represenitves bag and pulled out so that the president would believe it just for him togo public with it but the germans fell for it to so then we kept breaking there code as the war went on saving many lives -
Treaty of Versailles
This was a peace traeaty sighned between germany and the allied powers -
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League of Nations
League of Nations was an internation govermental organization to keep world peace. It was made up of 63 countries and United States was not included. -
Teapot Dome scandal
Was a secrat realeasing of the federal oil wells -
hawley-smoot tariff Act
it brought US to the highest tariff yet it was passed by president hoover -
Robber Barons
Weathly and powerful American businessmen were callled Robber Barons. Matthew Josephson popularized this term during the great depression.
