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Union leader Eugene Debs serves six months in jail for his part in the Pullman strike and came out:

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a socialist, believing that workers must take control of the state.

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The U.S. role in the 1895 border crisis in Venezuela signaled that

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the United States had achieved hegemony, or domination, in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Secretary of State John Hay initiated the Open Door policy in 1900 to insure

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access to trade in China for all.

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The eloquent plea for free silver -"Do not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"- was made in 1896 by

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William Jennings Bryan.

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After Frances Willard assumed the presidency of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, the focus of the organization gradually changed to include

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social action, labor conditions, and women's voting rights.

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America's entrance into Spanish-American War was a direct result of

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pressure by the press and the sinking of the Maine.

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Many white southerners backed down from voting for the Populist presidential candidate in 1892 because

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they couldn't bring themselves to vote for a Yankee.

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U.S. stake in the Spanish-American War included

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Cuban independence from Spain, American trade with Cuba and Asian expansion.

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In 1900, America's foreign policy was paradoxical because

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the country wanted to keep the Western Hemisphere closed to outside influences yet also desired access to Asia.

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The workers' strike at the Homestead plant in 1892 was fundamentally

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a contest between workers' rights and property rights.

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The Treaty of Paris that ended the war with Spain cede to the United States

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Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

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In 1895, President Cleveland tested the Monroe Doctrine when a border dispute arose

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it was America's prerogative to step in and mediate.

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The depression of 1893 was characterized by

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the unemployment of nearly half of the labor force.

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In the 1890s, some advocated U.S. expansion

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to acquire new markets.

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In 1896, presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan

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set a new style for presidential campaigning by traveling widely.

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The unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890

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signaled the beginning of the new era in women's fight for the vote.

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In 1894, Jocob S. Coxey led thousands of unemployed people to Washington to propose a plan

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to put the jobless to work building roads.

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Among the drawbacks of living in the town of Pullman, Illinois, was

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that rents were ten to twenty percent higher than in nearby communities.

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The Boxer Rebellion in China was aimed at

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missionaries and other symbols of foreign colonialism.

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After four and a half months, the strike at the Homestead mill ended, and

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the strikers minus their union leaders returned to work.

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Soon after Margaret Sanger launched her movement for birth control in 1915,

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she face arrest for distributing "obscene" information.

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In the years between 1890 and 1916, progressives tended to be

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reformers with a broad agenda of concerns.

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A strike by 147,00 anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania in 1902 led to

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a reduction in hours worked and an increase in wages.

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As governor of Wisconsin, Robert La Follette united his supporters by

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emphasizing reform over party loyalty.

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Progressives launched the social purity movement to

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attack prostitution and other vices.

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Taken together, President Roosevelt's actions in the anthracite coal strike of 1902 and the dissolution of Northern Securities in 1904 demonstrated that the government

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intended to act independently of big business.

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Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom

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incorporate his belief in limited government, states' rights, and open markets.

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President Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his role in

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negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

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To obtain the Panamanian isthmus for construction of a canal, the United States

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backed an uprising in Panama arranged by New York investors.

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The term 'muckrakers' refers to Progressive Era journalists who

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filled papers and periodicals with stories of corporate and political wrongdoing.

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Jane Addams quickly learned that it was impossible to deal with social problems in the city without

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becoming involved in political action.

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President Roosevelt inherited the Open Door policy, a program designed to

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ensure the United States commercial entry into China in the face of competition from European nations and Japan.

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President Taft's "dollar diplomacy" in the Caribbean

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set commercial rather than strategic goals.

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The Progressive Era witnessed the rise of Jim Crow laws in the South that were designed to

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legalize and expand racial segregation in public facilities.

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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

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set up the United States as the police power in the Western Hemisphere.

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American women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found that the settlement house movement

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was a good place to use their talents to help society.

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Eugene V. Debs offered an alternative to the progressive programs of the Republicans and Democrats by

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urging men and women to liberate themselves from "the barbarism of private ownership and wage slavery."

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According to Theodore Roosevelt, the "absolutely vital question" facing the nation when he became president in 1901 was

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"whether or not the government has the power to control the trusts."

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President Roosevelt believed that the best way to deal with trusts was to

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have the federal government regulate them.

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The progressive movement in the United States began at the

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grassroots level and percolated up to the national level of government.

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The Committee on Public Information was created by President Wilson to

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stir up patriotism through posters, pamphlets, cartoons, and press releases.

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Germany reacted to the blockade in 1914 by

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retaliating with a submarine blockade of Great Britain.

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The return to free enterprise in the United States after WWI led to

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a rise in unemployment and a new conflicts between business and labor.

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The selective Service Act of 1917 authorized the draft of

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all young men.

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Between 1915 and 1920, in an effort to escape the South's cotton fields and kitchens, blacks

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left the South for northern industrial cities.

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before the outbreak of WWI, Europe was divided into

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the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance.

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The US government passed the Espionage Act, the Trading with the Enemy Ace and the Sedition Act to

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punish any opinion it considered "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive" to the American flag or uniform.

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As commander of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during WWI, General John Pershing found himself waging on war against the Germans and another against

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America's allies.

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President Wilson chose William Jennings Bryan to serve as his secretary of state because Bryan

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was a pacifist.

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A complex web of European military and diplomatic alliances determined the scope of WWI, but the event that triggered the war was

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the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Bosnian Serb terrorist.

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The labor shortage that resulted from the mobilization of US troops in 1917

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expanded opportunities for women.

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President Wilson's foreign policy was based on

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his belief that the United States had a moral duty to champion national self determination, peaceful free trade and political democracy.

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The event that led the German republic to sue for an armistice in 1918 was the

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defeat of its forces along the Marne and Meuse rivers.

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Woodrow Wilson selected General John Pershing to command the American Expeditionary Force in Europe because

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Pershing was known for the kind of level-headed efficiency many progressives believed was needed in modern warfare.

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In Schneck v. United States (1919), the US Supreme court

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ruled that Charles Schenck's actions posed a "clear and present danger: to the nation in the time of war.

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The Red scare of 1919 and 1920 was

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a reaction to U.S. labor unrest, Russian Bolshevism and a flurry of terrorist attacks.

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In negotiating the 1919 peace treaty in Paris, the Allies wante

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to weaken Germany so that it would never threaten its neighbors again.

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In exchange for its neutrality in WWI, the United States insisted on

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free trade with all nations at war and a guarantee of safety on the open seas.

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President Wilson's policies toward Latin America were governed in large part by

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the Monroe Doctrine.

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Black migration to the North during WWI led to

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ninety-six lynchings and race riots in two dozen northern cities.

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The Sheppard-Tower At of 1921

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was the high point of women's political influence in the 1920's.

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America's return to the peacetime economy in 1920 and 1921 was marked by

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a 20 percent unemployment rate, the highest to date.

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President Harding's stance on prohibition was exemplified by the fact that

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liquor flowed freely in the White House during his administration.

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The immigration laws of the 1920's, including the Johnson-Reid Act,

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marked the beginning of an era of strict limits on immigration.

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Among the first signs of economic distress int eh United States in the mid 1920's was

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slowdown in new construction and in automobile sales.

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As the United States slipped into the Great Depression in the early 1930's, President Hoover's most generous response was to lend government funds to

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American banks, insurance companies and railroads.

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The Dawes Plan

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halved Germany's annual reparations payments and initiated American loans to Germany.

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The flapper of the 1920's represented

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a challenge to traditional gender roles.

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Knute Rockne and Red Grange were associated with

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college and professional football.

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Those hardest hit by the Great Depression were

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the unemployed, tenant farmers and sharecroppers.

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During the 1920's most American women who worked held jobs as

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secretaries, stenographers, office clerks, typists ans salesclerks.

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Welfare capitalism was created by

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businesses to encourage loyalty to the company.

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The Hoover administration responded to the problems of the American people during the Great Depression by

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insisting that no one was starving.

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The relatively new industry in the 1920's that linked the possession of material goods to the fulfillment of spiritual and emotional needs was

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advertising.

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The Ku Klux Klan reemerged in 1915 largely in response to the belief that

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the nation needed to be defended against the threat to traditional values posed by blacks, immigrants, radicals, feminists, Catholics and Jews.

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many Americans responded to Alfred E Smith's candidacy for president in 1928

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as a symbol of all they feared---Catholicism, immigrants, cities, and liberal attitudes.

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In1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to

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fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean.

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The presidential election of 1924, in which Calvin Coolidge defeated John W. Davis and Robert La Follette,

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indicated a lack of support among voters for labor unions, the regulation of business and the protection of civil liberties.

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One effect of the depression of the American family in the 1930's was

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the resentment of men, who lost their jobs more often than women did.

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The outcome of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial was evidence of

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the anti-foreign hysteria that was rampant among many Americans.

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