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 * //*Wiki Walruses*//**


 * Progressive Era**
 * wanted to build an existing society, make moderate changes, and social improvements
 * pragmatism
 * progressivists were mainly middle class citizens
 * presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson
 * Time of reform:temperance, meat ("The Jungle"), child labor, sanitation, start of civil rights
 * Muckrackers - exposed corruption incorporations/businesses - ex)Ida Tarbell, Henry Demearest Llyod, Jacob Riis
 * Businesses started fixing situations b/c they didn't want to be exposed by muckrackers
 * Voter improvements: secret ballots, direct primaries, 17th amendment (direct election of senators), initiative, referendum, and recall, social welfare
 * Trust-busting and regulation of business
 * rise of the socialist party


 * Expansionism**
 * imperialism
 * all the countries wanted to be like Britain
 * japan rising up and modernizing whil china did not
 * McKinley was expansionist president


 * World War One**
 * Caused by MANIA and revenge
 * US was neutral at first - didn't want to get involved in "Europe's war"
 * Greman submarines kept sinking US ships
 * Lusitania Crisis
 * Sussex pledge - germany would not bomb ships w/out warning (did not last very long)
 * zimmerman telegram
 * Allied Powers: Gr. Britain, France, Russia, and eventually US
 * Axis Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire/Turkey
 * Kaiser Willie leader of Germany
 * lots of propaganda
 * support of britain
 * trench warfare
 * us was not adequately prepared when entered war (esp. w/ army)
 * red scare
 * treaty of versailles
 * wilson's 14 points and the rejection of the league of nations
 * the "big four"
 * The 1920's**
 * presidents: warren harding, calvin coolidge, herbet hoover
 * tepot dome scandal
 * stock market
 * buying on margin (putting down 10%)
 * lost generation authors (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, Frank Lloyd Wright, etc.)
 * jazz age
 * increased consumerism (automobiles, radios, movies, etc.)
 * model T-Ford automobile
 * flappers
 * modernism
 * Scopes trial - question of religon/creation vs. science/evolution - old vs. new
 * Harlem renaissance
 * increased immigration - led to quota acts
 * organized crime and Al Capone - b/c of prohibition/volstead act
 * Sacco vs. Vanzetti
 * KKK
 * disarmament
 * repaing war debts
 * crash of the stock market Oct. 29, 1929