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theodore drieser
*an american tragedy
*maggie, a girl of the streets
*american novelist and journalist
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boxer rebellion
*chinese rebellious group wanted to destroy emperor that was ruling for over 250 years
*boxers did uprisings and attacks
*US France Britain Italy Russia and Japan sent an international force of 2,100 soldiers to help -
chinese exclusion act
*a ten year policy
*immigration to america -
hay bunau varilla treaty 1903
*treaty signed between panama and US
*panama canal to be constructed -
pure food and drug act
*federal inspection of meat products
*protect public from adultaration of food -
payne aldrich tarrif
*cut tarrif some not as much as progressives wanted
*made teddy break with taft and seek election 1912 -
ballinger pinchot controversy 1909
*taft fired chief forrester pinchot for accusing interior secballinger of benefiting business interests at expense of US natural resources -
underwood simmons tarrif 1913
*lower tarrif
*woodrow wilson summoned a special seccion to congress
*levying an income tax -
federal reserve system 1913
*result of investigqation of money trust/ panic 1907
*most banks joined by 1929
*us gov gets control of money supply, interest ratees -
jacob riis
*photographed slums
*his books showed deplorable urban conditions
*danish american social reformer
*how the other half lives -
clayton anti trust act 1914
*outlawed many practices used to build monopolies
*exempted unions from sherman anti trust act -
booker t washington
*former slave who does not advocate political or social equality of negroes and whites
*1905 atlanta compromise asked whites to allow negroes to learn vocational skills and earn living -
lusitania
*one of the main reasons that the US got involved in ww1
*sunk by u-boat
*germany 'restricted' its subs -
louis brandeis
*first jewish supreme court of justice,
*wants to break up trust -
zimerman note
*zimmerman telegraph from washington to mexico
*propaganda posters
*germany promised us lands to mexico if they partnered against us -
marcus garvey
*advocated pride in african heritage and back to africa for full equality
*loyal leader of the black nationalism -
influenza epidemic 1918
*killed 600,000 in US in 10 months
*1 in 200 americans died -
league of natons
*US senate led by henry cabot lodge refused to join
*fear of loosing sovereignty
*wilson took fight to join the league directly to the US people
*had a stroke and his wife ran things until the end of his term -
18th amendment
*prohibition of alcohol
*bans manufacturing, selling and distribution of alcohol -
salvation army
*religious reformers
*william booth founded the salvation army
*he was a methodist minister