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Panic of 1807
Financial crisis that occurred in the U.S when the New York Stock Exchange fell almost 50%. There was nationwide bankruptcy -
Sherman Anti-trust Act
-passed by congresss
-prohibited certain business activities that reduce competition in the marketplace -
William McKinley
-25th U.S president
-republican
-spoke for high tariffs to promote industrialization and high wages -
1902 Chinese Exclusion Act
U.S federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur.
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Chinese exclusion act
-a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur
- allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration
- This law was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943 -
Teddy Roosevelt's gentleman's agreement
- an informal agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan -the U.S. would not impose restriction on Japanese immigration, and Japan would -The goal was to reduce tensions between the two powerful Pacific nations not allow further emigration to the U.S
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W.E.B DuBois
- an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor
- the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks
- Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta Compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington -insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation
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Ballinger-pinchot controversy
a dispute that contributed to the split of the Republican Party before the 1912 Presidential Election and helped to define the U.S. conservation movement in the early 20th century. -
Theodore Roosevelt
-26th president of the U.S
-republican
-led proggressive movement and increased regulation of businesses -
William Howard Taft
-27th president of the U.S
-10th chief justuice of the U.S
-served both offices and headed qanother branch of federal gvt. -
Underwood-simmons tariff
- re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment -lowered basic tariff rates -signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson
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Federal Reserve System
-to resolve a series of financial panics
- their three key objectives included maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates -
Military intervention in Vera cruz
- lasted for six months and was a response to the Tampico Affair
- poor diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States
- related to the ongoing Mexican Revolution
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Federal trade comission
-an independent agency of the United States government
-one of President Woodrow Wilson's major acts against trusts
- the FTC has been delegated the enforcement of additional business regulation statutes and has promulgated a number of regulations -
Booker T. Washington
- an African-American educator, author, orator, and political leader -He was the dominant figure in the African-American community in the United States -Representative of the last generation of black American leaders born in slavery, he spoke on behalf of the large majority of blacks who lived in the South but had lost their ability to vote
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Madison Grant's passing of the great race
-an influential book of scientific racism written by the American eugenicist, lawyer, and amateur anthropologist Madison Grant
-The book was largely ignored when it first appeared but went through several revisions and editions
-The book put forward Grant's theory of "Nordic superiority" and argued for a strong eugenics program in order to save the waning "Nordics" from inundation of other race types -
Fourteen points
- a speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress
- intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe
- became the basis for the terms of the German surrender
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Marcus Garvey
-a Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements
- founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
- promoted the return of the African Diaspora to their ancestral lands -
Steel Strike
- an attempt by the weakened Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
- to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I
- technological advances had slashed the number of skilled workers in both industries.
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Woodrow Wilson
-28th president of the U.S
-A leader of the Progressive Movement
-Democrat
