Gilded Age and Beyond

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  1. 5. Gilded Age banker and industrialist.
  2. 10. American teacher, author and journalist, was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era; is best known for the 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company.
  3. 11. A temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; a truce.
  4. 12. American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, graduating from Harvard, he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, was one of the co-founders of the NAACP in 1909.
  5. 14. Reform-minded, Progressive Era journalists, who wrote primarily for popular magazines and worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption (whether real or imaginary).
  6. 15. Young journalist who headed the Committee on Public Information (America’s propaganda agency) during World War I.
  7. 16. A nation that does not take part or give assistance in a dispute or war between others nations
  8. 18. Amendment to the 1901 Army appropriations bill specifying several conditions for the American military evacuation of Cuba. Required that Cuba cede territory for American military and naval bases and grant the U.S. the right to intervene in the island to preserve order.
  9. 21. Popular name for the Federal Reserve Banking System, the U.S. central bank, established in 1913
  10. 22. The greatest teacher you ever had.
  11. 24. A social philosophy advocating the improvement of human genetic traits through the promotion of higher reproduction of people with desired traits (positive .....), and reduced reproduction of people with less-desired or undesired traits (negative ......).
  12. 25. Radical group within the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party that became the Communist Party in 1918
  13. 27. The German title meaning "Emperor"; it is directly derived from the Roman Emperors' title of “Caesar”.
  14. 31. Policy in the late 19th century outlined in Secretary of State Hay's 1899 letter to the European powers, "requesting" that they keep China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis; thus, no international power would control that country.
  15. 33. 28th resident of the U.S., succeeded William H. Taft.
  16. 34. Type of industrial production in which prefabricated, interchangeable parts are used to assemble a finished product; process used by Henry Ford to mass produce quality, affordable automobiles
  17. 36. Serbian nationalist, terrorist group, responsible for the assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria Hungary, which precipitated the outbreak of WWI
  18. 38. Serbian nationalist who assassinated AustriaHungary’s heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, thus triggering World War I
  19. 39. Gilded Age industrialist who dominated the steel industry.
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  1. 1. A kind of diplomacy, initiated during the administration of President Taft, which encouraged investment of U.S. capital in foreign countries, largely targeting Latin American and Caribbean countries.
  2. 2. Progressive Era Founder of Planned Parenthood, firm believer (and activist in promoting) eugenics.
  3. 3. Vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort.
  4. 4. A military watercraft capable of independent operation underwater, effectively used by Germany to blockade England during World War I
  5. 6. The period in American history, between 1870 and 1900, characterized by rapid and substantial economic and industrial growth, urbanization, massive immigration from Europe and the amassing of large fortunes by a handful of industrialists.
  6. 7. A kind of international diplomacy, practiced by Theodore Roosevelt, involving intimidation by threat or use of military force.
  7. 8. Alliance linking Russia, France, and the United Kingdom before the outbreak of World War I.
  8. 9. Progressive Era social reformer, leader of woman's suffrage, and pioneer settlement social worker; best known for her founding of the Hull House in 1889.
  9. 13. President Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection; often referred to as the "three C's".
  10. 17. Muckraking author of The Jungle.
  11. 19. A black progressive most known for the “back to Africa” movement.
  12. 20. American author and humorist, one of his books gave rise to the term “Gilded Age”.
  13. 23. Popular name for the short-lived political party that ran former President Roosevelt against Republican President Taft and Democrat Woodrow Wilson, in the 1912 election.
  14. 26. American railroad tycoon, industrialist, politician. He served one two-year term as governor of California, was president of Southern Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
  15. 28. Founder of the Standard Oil Company.
  16. 29. Kind of tax created by the “Underwood Tariff Bill” after the passage of the 16th Amendment.
  17. 30. Popular nickname for the Industrial Workers of the World, a union headed by Socialist William “Big Bill” Haywood.
  18. 32. A type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news but, instead, uses eye-catching headlines to sell newspapers; techniques include exaggerations of events, scandal-mongering, and sensationalism
  19. 35. British ocean liner, in 1915 she was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat, causing the deaths of 1,198 passengers and crew, including 128 Americans.
  20. 37. 27th president of the United States, succeeded Theodore Roosevelt.