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Tammany Hall
Democratic political organization in New York City founded in 1789, as a ferternal benevolent society and associated economic, social, political in the 1800's and early 1900's with corruption and the abuse of power. -
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Prhibition
The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol. Early 1800's. -
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Industrialism Era
An economic and social system based on the development of large scale industries and marked by the production of large quantaties of inexpensive manufactured goods and the concentration of employment in urban factories. -
Manifest Destiny
John O' Sullivan was a newspaper editor and described the westward expansion in 1845. -
Social Darwinism
Term used for theories of society that emerged in England and the United States in the 1870's. -
Robber Barons
Ruthlessly, powerful, U.S. capitalist or industrialist of the late 19th century considered to have become wealthy by exlpoiting natural resources corrupting legislatures or other unethnical means. -
Spanish-American War
Americans didn't like the way spaniards treated the cubans. The USS Maine got sunk in Cube and about 280 Americans were killed. William McKinely asked congress for permission to stop fighting in Cuba. The U.S. easily defeated Spain. The Treaty of Paris on December 10th, 1898 lost Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico and the U.S. gained control of the Phillipines.. -
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Progressive Era
Four new admendments were made to the U.S constitution. -
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Imperialism Era
Political, military, and economic domination of strong nations over weaker territories. -
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Muckrackers
Writers who uncover and expose misconduct in politics or businesses. -
Upton Sinclair
Wrote The Jungle which was about the meat packing industry and he was a muckracker book. The meat was contaminated and still packed. This helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), and the Meat Inspection Act. -
Militarism
The belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military compatability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interest. -
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Allied Powers
Central powers vs. Triple Entrente
Triple Entrente turned into Allied Powers.
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Franz Ferdinand
He was a general in the military in 1896 and he was a Prince in Austria-Hungary and he was assassined on June 28th, 1914 by the Black Hand Party with his wife. This is one of the reasons WWI began -
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World War I
the war fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, between the Central Powers and the Allies, beginning on July 28, 1914, and ending on November 11, 1918, with the collapse of the Central Powers. -
Central Powers
WWI- Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Kingdom of Bulgaria. -
Zimmerman Note
Tellegram written by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States during WWI. -
Woodrow WIlson
28th president of the U.S. in 1912 and was a Democrat, Passed the Adamson Act (8- hour workday for railroads) Went to Paris in 1919 for the Treaty of Versailles. -
Treaty Of Versailles
of the peace treaties at the end of WWI that ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. Signed in 1919 -
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Isolationism
Policy or doctrine of isolating ones country from affairs of another nations by decling to enter into alliances. -
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Nationalism
A political ideology that invovles a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
A scandal during the Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior least government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Protective import act, authorized by congress in 1930. -
Teddy Roossevelt
26th President of the United States, a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States,effectively the result of American Intervention in the ongoing Cuban war of independence.
