U.S. history ch.16,17,18 – Flashcards

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Suffrage
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The right to vote
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Woodrow Wilson
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Winner of 1912 presidential election
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19th amendment
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Granted suffrage for women
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Muckrakers
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Journalists who uncovered corruption
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Conservation
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Preservation of natural resources
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Prohibition
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The banning of alcoholic beverages
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Florence Kelley
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Advocate for women and children
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Clayton antitrust act
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Sought to curb growth of monopolies
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Bull-moose party
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Progressive party headed by Roosevelt
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Square deal
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Name of Roosevelt's reform measures
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Susan b. anthony
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__was a leading proponent of women suffrage
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Railroad industry
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The major goal of the prominent progressive governor Robert m. La Follette was reforming the nations__
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Equality among races
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The goal of the NAACP was
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Initiative
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Bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers
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Referendum
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Enables voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face another election before the end of their term if enough voters asked for it
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17th amendment
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Granted direct election of senators the law of land
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Wright brothers
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Developed first airplane
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W. e. b. du Bois
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Demanded immediate equality for blacks
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Joseph Pulitzer
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Pioneered several newspaper innovations
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Louis Sullivan
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Designed nations first skyscraper
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George Eastman
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Introduces first mass-produced camera
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Fredrick law Olmsted
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Originated planned urban parks
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Mark twain
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American novelist and humorist
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Ida b. wells
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Fought to end lynching
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Booker t. Washigton
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__encouraged African Americans to fight racism by proving their economic value to society
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Niagra movement
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__was an effort to encourage blacks to seek a liberal arts education in order to provide the African American community with well-educated leaders
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Poll tax
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__, or annual tax that had to be paid in order to vote, was an effort to discourage african Americans from voting
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William Randolph Hearst
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The owner of the new your morning journal,__sought to lure readers wit exaggerated stories
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Rural free delivery
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Introduced by the post office in 1896, the__system brought packages directly to every home
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Jim Crow laws
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Racial segregation laws to separate white and black people in public and private facilities
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Segregation
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The separation of people on the basis of race
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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The Supreme Court ruled that the separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the 14th amendment
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Separate but equal
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High schools
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More people began attending these to meet job demands
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Wells
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Newspaper editor who denounced black lynchings
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Olmsted
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Designed central park
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Illiteracy
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Education hopes to conquer this
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Burnham
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Transformed Chicago into a majestic city
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Twain
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Informal huckleberry Finn author
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Sullivan
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Designed wainwright building
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Realism
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Artistic technique used by eakins
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Hearst
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Filled New York morning journal with sensational stories
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Linotype
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Typesetting machine
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Literacy
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Test preventing many african Americans from voting
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Poll
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Tax preventing the poor from voting
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Brooklyn
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Bridge 14 years in the making
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Mexican
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Nationality vital to southeast agriculture who experienced discrimination
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Department
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Large variety store
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Wright
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Brothers who built first successful airplane
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Du bois
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Believed in liberal arts education for African Americans
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Film
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Silent feature__
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Coal industry
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Roosevelt began a presidential precedent by intervening in a 1902 strike by the__
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Pure food and drug act
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The measure that required truth in labeling in numerous products was the__
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Civil rights
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Roosevelt was criticized by some for not doing enough to champion__
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The jungle
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Roosevelt led the effort to reform the meat packing industry after readig__
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John muir
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Roosevelt was persuaded to set aside millions of acres of forest reserves by the naturalist and writer__
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Richard a. Ballinger
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President taft's secretary of interior__, disapproved of conservationist controls of western lands
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1912
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The presidential election of__saw the emergence of 3rd party
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Woodrow Wilson
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Democratic presidential candidate of 1912, reform senator from New Jersey
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Progressives
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Disapproved the Payne-Aldrich tariff
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Princeton university
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Before entering politics, Woodrow Wilson served as president of__
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New freedom
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__was the name of Wilson's progressive programs
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Monopolies
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The ultimate goal of the Clayton antitrust act was stopping the creation of__
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Labor unions; farm organizations
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Under the Clayton antitrust act,__and__no longer would be subject to antitrust laws
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Underwood act
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Wilson worked to ensure passage of the__, which would substantially reduce tariff rates for the first time since the civil war
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Idaho
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By 1910, women had voting rights in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Washington, and__
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19th amendment
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All women won the right to vote with the passage of the__
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Segregationists
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Wilson upset civil rights proponents by placing__in charge of some federal agencies
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Opposed
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As president, Woodrow Wilson__federal anti lynching legislation
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World war 1
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As__came to dominate Wilson's second term in office, the progressive era came to an wnd
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Givernr; Upper house
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Under the foraker act, the United States had the power to appoint puerto ricos__and__
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American
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The rebellion in the Philippines cost 4000__lives
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Boxers
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The_were a group opposed to the growing foreign influence in china
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Spheres of influence
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By the late 1800s, china had become home to several european__
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Spheres of influence
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Areas where a nation claimed special rights and economic privileges
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William Jennings Bryan
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President Mckinley's opponent in the 1900 presidential election was__
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William Jennings Bryan
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Staunch opponent of imperialism
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Russia and Japan
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Theodore Roosevelt earned a novel peace prize in 1906 for helping to negotiate a peace treaty to end the war between__
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Colombia
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Before building the Panama Canal, the United States helped to free panama from its rule by__
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10 years
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Construction of the Panama Canal took
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Latin America
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The Roosevelt corollary proclaimed u.s. authority over...
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William Howard Taft
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The u.s president most associated with dollar diplomacy was__
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Francisco "pancho" villa
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Woodrow Wilson dispatched general john j. Pershing into Mexico to capture the rebel leader__
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Economic
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The Roosevelt corollary protected these U.S. interests
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Boxers
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Secret Chinese group that rebelled against foreigners
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Hawaii
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The kingdom of queen Liliuokalani
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Teddy
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This Roosevelt "spoke softly and carried a big stick"
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Pearl Harbor
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U.S. naval base in Hawaii
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Hearst
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Pulitzer's competitor in fueling Spanish-American war
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Panama Canal
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Man made waterway to connect the Atlantic and pacific
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Open door
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Hay's policy for accessing Chinese market
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U.s.s. Maine
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The demise of this ship fueled the Cuban crisis
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Rough riders
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Volunteer cavalry led by teddy Roosevelt
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Common wealth
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Puerto Rico's current status in relation to u.s.
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Imperialism
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Strong nation taking control of a weak nation
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Alaska
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Seaward's $7.2 million "icebox folly"
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China
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Where the boxer rebellion took place
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Cuba
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Spanish would rather see sunk than sold to u.s.
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NAACP
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Organization for racial equality
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Women
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The 14th amendment had failed to grant__voting rights
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Vassar
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First women's college
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Bank
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The federal reserve system is a national__
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Initiative
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Bill started by the people
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FTC
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Agency that investigates trade violations
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Seventeenth
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Amendment making senate elections popular
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Wilson
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Democratic president against trusts and big business
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Meat
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Roosevelt pushed for its inspections
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Nacw
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Organization for improving african-American education
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LaFollette
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Governor who regulated corporate power
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Progressive
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Movement to return government control to the people
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Prohibition
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Legal banning of alcoholic consumption
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Muckrakers
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Journalists who exposes corrupt business practices
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Scientific
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Type of management meant to improve productivity in the workplace
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Clayton
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Antitrust act protecting unions from big business
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Taft
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President who alienated progressive republicans
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