Throughout this course you will encounter many historical figures, important events, ideas and concepts. You should be able to identify and give the historical significane of the key people, events, and concepts listed below.
These key terms are drawn from lectures and from the textbook. These terms will be covered on the Unit 3 exam.
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Organizations
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PEOPLE
Andrew Carnegie
Chief Joseph
Henry George
Edward Bellamy
Eugene V. Debs
William Jennings Bryan
Booker T. Washington
Alfred T. Mahan
Josiah Strong
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Margaret Sanger
Robert M. La Follette
Jane Addams
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
W.E.B. DuBois
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ORGANIZATIONS
Knights of Labor
Populist Party
Redeemers
American Federation of Labor
Anti-Imperialist League
American Federation of Labor
Industrial Workers of the World
Coney Island
Settlement houses
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EVENTS
Wounded Knee massacre
Haymarket affair
Spanish American War
Presidential election of 1896
Presidential election of 1912
The Red Scare of 1919
Scopes Trial
Harlem renaissance
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CONCEPTS
Second industrial revolution
Vertical integration
Horizontal integration
Social Darwinism
Social Gospel
Nativism
“Yellow” press
muckrakers
Open Door policy with China
Roosevelt Corollary
Fordism
Living wage
Women’s suffrage
Frederick Taylor’s Scientific management
Economic citizenship
Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Prohibition
Eugenics
Flappers
Cultural pluralism
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LAWS AND COURT CASES
Sherman Antitrust Act
Plessy v. Ferguson
Chinese Exclusion Act
Muller v. Oregon
Eighteenth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
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BOOKS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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