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Period: to
Spnaish American War-Womens Suffrage
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Chinese Exclusion
-Chinese Immigrants were being descrimintaed
-In 1943, it was repealed since China was an ally of U.S -
Colliers and McClure's
-Beginning of muckraking journalism
-Read mostly by the middle Class -
The Shame of the cities
-exposed many corrutption in cities in the US
-promote reforms
-hardships to immigrants -
History of the Standard Oil Company
-A book written by Ida Tarbell
-Muckracking and ispired other writters to write about trust
-oil run by john rockfeller -
Booker T. Washington
1.)Encouraged AfrIcan-Americans to have an education and have full civil rights and political power.
2.)Leader of the Tuskeege School -
Jane Adams, Hull House, Settlement Houses
-Jane became a sociologist
-Member of the American Sociological Association, founded in 1905.
-Made sciene imprtant in business -
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
-a novel that described the harsh condiiton for immigrants
-corruption of meat packing -
W.E,B. DuBois
-Joines the Communist Party
-1st black to graduate from Harvard
-Found NAACP -
Salvation Army & social gospel movememnt
-Historians call it 'the third great awakening'
-Revival and reform
-Temperance movement and the settlement house movement were both affected -
Jcob Riis
-used his photographic talents to help the poor new york
-invented flash
-attempted to help the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their situtations to the upper classes -
federal reeserve system
-served to calm down the panick
-great depression caused the sytem to change -
underwood-simmons tariff
-passed the 16th amendment
-lowered tariffs -
federal trade commission
-promotes consumer protection
-against harsh coercive monopoly -
military intervention in vera cruz
-military controls city after mexico officials seized US sailors and refuseed to give an apology -
Birth of a Nation
-Silent Film
-Based on the novel and play The Clansman -
The passing of the Great Race
-A book about scientific racism written by Madison Grant.
-In 2 parts and never a best-seller.
-Mongrelization- immigrats would become annoying -
carrie nation and antisaloon league of america
-pressured politics
-prohibition party lost influence on league party
-passed 18th amendment -
Marcus Gavey
-In 1919 he formed the Black Cross Navigation and trading comapny.
-President of Africa and had meetings with the KKK -
steel strike
-organize the U.S steel imdustry in the wake of ww1
-the strike collapsed -
palmer raids
-attempts to deport anarchisit from the U.S
-500 foreigners were deported
