Vocabulary Strength U.S. History Vocab Chapters 8 and 9

Politics is seen as a job for disreputable people​

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​Sophisticated organizations to win votes

​Collective Ownership of Business- kind of like communism. Divides the vote even more.

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​a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

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​a place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc. are mixed together.

​A "Progressive" are those who focus on using Government power to make large institutions play by a set of rules.

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​Slum Apartments

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​An apartment is a complete domocile occupying only part of a building, while a tenement is a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.

​an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.

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​In the early part of the 1900's, people started moving here.

​an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

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​Companies work together to set prices to eliminate competition

​Wants to destroy the trusts

​​Disagrees with regulated monopoly

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Election of 1912- Democratic candidate who enters politics with a firm set of moral principles.; wins by a landslide

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​He is brought to power by political machines

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​He tries to destroy the political machines once elected

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​Progressive-passionate speaker;

used his popularity to bypass legislators

​First Modern President

​Policy: Talk Softly and Carry a Big Stick

​Helped fight against Spain with his Rough Riders

​Political machines hated him because he was honest and popular

​"Steam Engine in Trousers"

​Supported big business- wanted to control trusts with big government

​Conservationist- loved nature; adds 150 million acres of national park land

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​Policy: Talk Softly and Carry a Big Stick

​Policy: Talk Softly and Carry a Big Stick

​Socialist

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​Wants collective ownership of business- kind of like communism

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​Divides the political vote even more in the election of 1912

​Quiet, calm

​Hated public speaking and the presidency

​Created a Children's Bureau

​Improved safety in mines

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​attacked twice as many trusts in 4 years than Roosevelt did in 8 years

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​Added park land

​Fight for Equality

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​Tuskegee University

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​Believes hard work and education will allow blacks to gradually fit in

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​Fight for equality

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​Feels STRONGER ACTION needed for blacks to fit in when compared to Booker T. Washington

​Segregation Laws

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​In the early 1900's, 2/3 of African Americans remained in the south and are sharecroppers

​A supreme court ruling that allowed for continued segregation

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​It stated that separate facilities were acceptable if equal

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​However, in Mississippi (for example), white schools spent $ 225 per child to educate a child, while black schools were given $2 per child