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Test 2 LOs

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Muckrakers (Progressive journalists) exposed the darker side of America
Muckrakers believed that people could change and that there was hope for the future
Progressives wanted to make things more efficient
Discuss the factors that contributed to a progressive movement of reform from 1890 to 1920.
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Identify the groups whom progressives wanted to control. Explain why they wanted to control these groups, and describe the instruments they employed in order to do so.
People were elected based on their expertise, not class
City manager takes care of city things
Describe the municipal and state reforms inspired by progressivism.
A public office or other position of authority of sufficiently high rank that provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on the matter
Referred to the White House as a bully pulpit
Explain what Roosevelt meant by the "bully pulpit" and how he applied this to his administration.
Pursue a middle ground to corub corporate or labour abuses
Some controls were necessary, but large-scale industrial growth and production were natural and beneficial
Analyze Roosevelt's attitude toward the trusts and the role of the federal government in trade issues and labor disputes.
Roosevelt wanted to expand the power of the ICC to regulate railroad rates
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Summarize the progressive measures of the Roosevelt presidency, with emphasis on railroad regulation, food and drug regulation, and conservation.
Taft was more conservative than Roosevelt
Got rod if Pinchot
Taft alienated himself from winning the Republican nomination for 1912
Alienated Roosevelt, so he ran under the "Bull Moose" party
This split the public vote, leading to Wilson's democratic win
Contrast Taft's approach to executive leadership with Roosevelt's, specifying their different attitudes toward reform.
Launched antitrust suits against things Roosevelt had approved of
Taft fired Pinchot, leaving conservatives to side with him
Taft outmaneuvered Roosevelt and kept the Republican party
Roosevelt created the Progressive Party
Determine the issues that adversely affected Taft's relationship with progressives and influenced his downfall in 1912.
Conservation of forests and the right to sell land
Ballinger offered to sell land that Pinchot had withdrawn for sale
Tariff was Taft's attempt to find middle ground between conservatives and progressives
Meant to lower tariffs, didn't really
Led to the split of the Republican Party
Determine the political effects of Taft's handling of the Ballinger Pinchot affair and his support for the Payne Aldrich Tariff.
Taft alienated Progressives
Roosevelt was candidate for the anti-Taft party
Because of the split, Wilson won the Democratic Party nomination, winning him the presidency
Discuss the election of 1912 taking into account the different political philosophies and the reason for Wilson's victory.
Fundamental optimism about human nature, possibility of progress, and capacity of people
Willing to intervene in peoples lives
Preferred voluntary action, but also turned to authority
Combination of Protestants and national and social sciences
Touched virtually the whole US
Discuss the six or so major characteristics that defined and shaped progressivism.
Women sought better working conditions, higher wages, and voting rights
Anti-Saloon League and Women's Christian Temperance Union pushed for prohibition
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Largest organization pushing for women's suffrage
Many different organizations tried to influence elected officials
Examine the participation of women in the social-justice movement and in the efforts to bring about prohibition and women's suffrage.
Columbia was in control of Panama and refused to allow the US to build
US supported Panamanian independence movement
When Panama became independent, the two countries signed a treaty, giving the US the right to build and control the Panama Canal Zone
Identify factors that led to U.S. involvement in Panama Canal.
Roosevelt created the Panama canal
Supported Panamanian independence
Monroe Doctrine told Latin American countries to keep governments that the US liked in power
US could militarily intervene whenever it saw fit
Taft wanted to replace European loans with American ones
Wilson rejected dollar diplomacy
Intervened in Latin America more than Roosevelt of Taft
Brought the US close to war with Mexico
Discuss the new role of the United States in Latin America and the various diplomatic approaches of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson.
Germany sends the Zimmerman Telegram to Mexico
Madero took power after Diaz was overthrown
Huerta threw Diaz in jail and arranged for his murder
Wilson wanted to oust Huerta and asked Congress for authority to militarily intervene
Ordered Pershing to seize Villa in Mexico but was unsuccessful
Describe the problems Wilson faced in Mexico and whether he handled them responsibly.
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Wilson declared neutrality
America wanted freedom of the seas to continue trade with England and Germany
US ends up trading with mainly Allies
Threat of U-boats sinking other ships
List and explain the causes of the war in Europe and American reactions to the war.
Germany began attacking with U-boats again
Zimmerman Telegram
Understand the factors that brought the U.S. into the war and the extent to which German belligerence in the North Atlantic was responsible.
Trenches
Submarines
Poison gas
Warplanes (not as much as in WWII)
Tanks
Identify weapons and tactics used in WW 1.
Union membership swelled
Standard wages and hours
African Americans came from the south to the north to replace jobs
Emerged from the war as the greatest economic power in the world
Show the ways in which the wartime partnership between citizens and government worked and how the war affected women and African Americans.
US wasn't prepared for war
Decision split the country
200K troops at the start
Draft was created
Pershing headed the troops (just after returning from Mexico)
Specify the steps by which America mobilized for war.
Demanded properties, allocated raw materials, and fixed prices
Fed material to newspapers and magazines, commissioned advertising campaigns, and produced propaganda posters
Peacefully settle labour disputes or lock-outs in war industries
Summarize the activities of the War Industries Board, the Committee on Public Information, and the War Labor Board.
1917: US troops arrive in France
1918: US troops help stop the last German offensive
Determine the reasons for the final military collapse of Germany.
14 Points
Ideas of national self-determination and the creation of the League of Nations
Germany's Asian and African colonies were divided up among the other European nations
England and France want Germany disarmed and crippled
Germany had to pay reparations
Define the different goals of the victorious nations at the Paris Peace Conference, and explain how Wilson's goals were incorporated into the treaty.
The treaty failed to deflect Allied punishment of Germany
Treaty fails in the US Senate
US never joins the League of Nations
Discuss the reasons for the failure of Wilsonian global idealism and the Versailles treaty.
Most sever pandemic in recent history
Spread due to the movement of troops during the war
The fear of the spread of communism
Define influenza pandemic and Red Scare.
Many people could now afford a car
Boom of cars also helped the rubber, steel, and oil industries
Rise in leisure activities
Corporations dominated the working world
Discuss the factors that produced unprecedented growth in autos, consumerism, and business in the 1920s.
Rise of black culture in a more widespread light
DuBois and Johnson contributed to this by giving black communities a voice
Jazz rose from this area/time
McKay and Hughes were intellectuals who showed the tragedy of black like
Discuss the impact and import of the Harlem Renaissance.
Nativism
Opposed to immigration
Leads to immigration quotas
anti-European after WWI
Working class feared low wage immigrants would take their jobs
Prohibitionism
Ban on sale and import of alcoholic beverages
Led to the rise of organized crime
Fundamentalists
Conservative Evangelical Protestants
Attacked modern and secular theories of biblical criticism
Analyze how nativists, prohibitionists, and Fundamentalists fought for their versions of traditional society in the 1920s.
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Describe the basic principles of Republican policies during the 1920s.
Not a lot of people owned stock, but the market held a great amount of wealth
The government wanted to stimulate the economy so it allowed a lot of borrowing and credit
Created too many goods, and didn't allow people to buy goods
Smaller reasons like unstable conditions in Europe, agricultural downturn, corporate mismanagement
Explain the causes of the "great bull market" and the stock market crash.
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