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what did Oliver Hudson Kelly create, believing that farmers could best help themselves by creating farmers cooperatives in which they could ool resources and obtain better shipping rates, as well as prices on seeds, fertilizer, machinery, and other necessary inputs?
The Grange
World War I saw new military technologies that turned war into a conflict of prolonged ________.
Trench warfare
___________ was the first american offensive in the war
The battle of Cantigny
_______ led by lenin pulled tsar nicholas ii as well as russia out of wwI
Bolshevik Revolution
The subsequent battle ________ proved to be the bloodiest of the war for american troops.
belleau wood
ended wwi
Treaty of Versailles
One terrifying new piece of technological warfare was the German ______
unterseeboot—an “undersea boat” or U-boat
Of the greatest historical note was the attack on the British passenger ship, the _______, on May 7, 1915.
RMS Lusitania
When a Serbian nationalists, Garvrillo prince assassinated _______of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, leading to the start of WWI in Europe.
ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand
The triple alliance became the
Central Powers
The triple entente became the
allied powers
Once the panamanian victory was secured, American construction on the _____ began in 1904.
Panama Canal
________ was based on the original Monroe Doctrine of the early nineteenth century, which warned European nations of consequences of their interference in the Caribbean.
The Roosevelt corollary
Most famously, Theodore Roosevelt led his ______, an all volunteer cavalry unit made up of adventure-seeking college graduates, veterans and cowboys from the Civil War, in charge up Kettle Hill near San Juan Hill.
rough riders
The two sides finalized the ___________, ending the Spanish-American War.
Treaty of Paris 1898
Newspapers such as the New York Journal, led by William Randolph Hearst, and the New York World, published by Joseph Pulitzer, competed for readership with sensational stories with no regard for the truth
Yellow Journalism
American businessmen were most interested in the __________on the Hawaiian islands.
lucrative sugar industry
Early in his second term, Roosevelt read muckraker Upton Sinclair’s 1905 novel and exposé on the meatpacking industry___________
The Jungle
______ gave the U.S access to rich, mineral resources including gold that triggered the Klondike Gold Rush.
Seward's Folly
Roosevelt, Insisting upon delivering the speech before seeking medical attention, he told the crowd, Roosevelt, Insisting upon delivering the speech before seeking medical attention, he told the crowd, _________
“It takes more than a bullet to kill a bull moose!”
_________, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Mary Church Terrell were among the sixty respondents who went on to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Although Roosevelt enjoyed the nickname “_______,” he did not consider all trusts dangerous to the public welfare.
the Trustbuster
Speaking to a racially mixed audience, Washington called upon African Americans to work diligently for their own uplift and prosperity rather than preoccupy themselves with political and civil rights.
Atlanta Compromise
______, a professor at the all-Black Atlanta University and the first African American with a doctorate from Harvard, emerged as the prominent spokesperson for what would later be dubbed the Niagara Movement
Du Bois
_______, a veteran of the suffrage movement, registered and voted under the principle that the 14th amendment gave her the right. She was arrested and ruled guilty without being allowed to testify.
Susan B. Anthony
Born into slavery in Virginia in 1856, ______ Progressive Era.
Booker T. Washington
A group of journalists and writers collectively known as _______ provided an important spark that ignited the Progressive movement
muckrakers
In his book, How the Other Half Lives (1890), journalist and photographer ______ used photojournalism to capture the dismal and dangerous living conditions in working-class tenements in New York City
Jacob Riis
______, perhaps the most well-known female muckraker, wrote a series of articles on the dangers of John D. Rockefeller’s powerful monopoly, Standard Oil.
Ida Tarbell
________ also agreed that democracy had to be balanced with an emphasis on efficiency, a reliance on science and technology, and deference to the expertise of professionals.
Progressives
The second innovation allowed voters to counteract legislation by holding a _______—that is, putting an existing law on the ballot for voters to either affirm or reject.
referendum
_______, arguably the first American management consultant, laid out his argument of increased industrial efficiency through improvements in human productivity in his book The Principles of Scientific Management (1911).
Fredrick Winslow Taylor
On March 25 of that year, a fire broke out at the ______ on the eighth floor of the Asch building in New York City.
Triangle Shirtwaist Company
____, in this case, took the form of the president naming his friends and supporters to various political posts.
Patronage
Roscoe Conkling, a Republican senator from New York and leader of the _____, a group that strongly supported continuation of the current spoils system.
Stalwarts
The other was James G. Blaine, Republican senator from Maine and leader of the _______ (Half republican, Half democrat)
Half-Breeds
At a minimum, a return to a bimetallic policy that would include the production of _____ would provide some relief.
silver dollars
Angry at the federal government’s continued unwillingness to substantively address the plight of the average farmer, _____ and the Farmers’ Alliance chose to create a political party whose representatives—if elected—could enact real change. In 1891, the alliance formed the Populist Party, or People’s Party.
Charles Macune