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year of the Wright brothers’ first flight

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1903

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year Ford’s Model T came out

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1908

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year the Titanic sank

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1912

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year the Panama Canal was completed

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1914

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president from 1901-1909

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Theodore Roosevelt

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president from 1909-1913

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William Taft

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president from 1913-1921

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Woodrow Wilson

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perfected the first American automobile

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Henry Ford (Model T)

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Henry Ford was also known for the ________ to produce cars

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assembly line

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known for the first successful airplane flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

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Orville and Wilbur Wright

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invented the wireless telegraph in 1896

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Guglielmo Marconi

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largest luxury ocean liner of the time; struck by an iceberg and sunk

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Titanic

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_______ and _______ spurred industry in the early 1900s

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electricity and the internal combustion engine

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applies to machines that operate and regulate themselves

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automation

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Teddy Roosevelt became president after _________’s assassination

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William McKinley

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youngest man to become president

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Theodore Roosevelt

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known for his fight for good government, earning him the nickname “Fighting Bob”

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Robert M. La Follette

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The Progressive Era is considered to have begun with ________’s presidency

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Teddy Roosevelt (1901)

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Progressive presidents

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Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson

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the most important businesses broken up by the Supreme Court were _______ and _______

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Standard Oil Company and the American Tobacco Company

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facilitated anti-trust cases in federal courts

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Expedition Act

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Teddy Roosevelt was known as ________ for breaking up large trusts that he believed were harmful to Americans

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the Trust Buster

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the Department of Commerce and Labor was established under ________’s presidency

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Teddy Roosevelt

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went on strike for shorter work days and increase in pay

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United Mine Workers (led by John Mitchell)

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_________caused by a sharp drop in stock prices on Wall Street during Roosevelt’s administration
Panic of 1907
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wrote Shame of the Cities to condemn corrupt city politics
Lincoln Steffens
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wrote History of the Standard Oil Companies attacking practices followed by big businesses
Ida Tarbell
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author of The Jungle exposing the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry
Upton Sinclair
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granted the power to inspect shipped meat
Meat Inspection Act
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Congress passed the _________ to prevent the manufacture and sale of contaminated food and drugs
Pure Food and Drug Act
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journalists who focused on all the problems and issues in society
muckrakers
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Roosevelt worked to promote ________ because of his love of the outdoors
conservation (with Gifford Pinchot; created Roosevelt Dam)
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granted the US the right to build and police a canal through Central America
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
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30 mile-wide site for the route of the Panama Canal
Isthmus of Panama
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_______ was also considered for a canal route for the US
Nicaragua
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Roosevelt granted the _______ diplomatic recognition
Republic of Panama
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granted the US a 10 mile-wide zone through the Isthmus of Panama
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
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appointed chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal Zone
William Gorgas
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army engineer who was in charge of the Panama Canal
George Washington Goethals
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Roosevelt's foreign policy
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far"
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the US intervened in financial issues in ________ and ________
Venezuela and the Dominican Republic
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expanded interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary
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anything that follows as a natural or logical result of something else
corollary
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large areas of China’s coast whose economic affairs and foreign trade were controlled by other world powers
spheres of influence
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forbade Europe to control or interfere with the rights of Asia
open door policy
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extremist anti-Western uprising in China causing America to send troops to protect their citizens
Boxer Rebellion
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Roosevelt won the ______ for negotiating a peace treaty between Russia and Japan in the Russo-Japanese War (Japan won)
Nobel Peace Prize
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Japanese government agreed to withhold passports from Japanese laborers seeking to come to the US in return for the Japanese students being treated fairly
Gentlemen's Agreement
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Roosevelt sent a new naval fleet around the world to show America’s military might, called the _______
Great White Fleet
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largest man to ever serve as president
William Taft (he had been Roosevelt's secretary of war)
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postal saving system was established during ________'s presidency
Taft
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year New Mexico and Arizona were admitted to the Union
1912
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strengthened the power of the ICC
Mann-Elkins Act
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declaration by the Supreme Court that they would only prosecute trusts that used “unreasonable business practices”
rule of reason
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making allies through finances and trade instead of threats or force
dollar diplomacy (Taft)
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2 parties the Republican party split into
1. Conservative party 2. Progressive (Bull Moose) party
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the Democrat who won the election of 1912 because the Republican party split was ______
Woodrow Wilson
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the only man in history to serve first as president and then as Chief Justice of the US
William Taft
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first major tariff revision since the Civil War
Underwood-Simmons Act
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one of the most significant tariff acts in American history
Underwood-Simmons Act
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created the federal income tax in 1913
Sixteenth Amendment
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created a privately controlled central banking system under the control of the federal government, divided the nation into 12 banking districts with a Federal Reserve Bank in each district, and established the reserve requirement and discount rate
Federal Reserve Act
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percent of deposits that member banks are required to hold on reserve
reserve requirement
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rate of interest charged to member banks that borrow money from Federal Reserve Banks
discount rate
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investigated businesses engaged in interstate commerce to detect unfair trade practices
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
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declared certain business practices illegal, banning interlocking directorate and the holding company
Clayton Antitrust Act
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same men serving on the board of directors for several different companies
interlocking directorate
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a corporation whose business held stock in other corporations (can create a monopoly)
holding company
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The US paid Nicaragua _______ for a perpetual option to build a canal through their land
$3 million
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the US purchased ______ for $25 million to use as a naval base to protect the Panama Canal
the Virgin Islands (Danish West Indies)
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Mexican dictator who threatened American businesses in Mexico
Victoriano Huerta
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