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"White Man's Burden" - ️️1899 A poem by British poet Rudyard Kipling commenting on American imperialism. It created a phrase used by imperialists to justify the imperialistic actions the U.S. took. Plessy v. Ferguson - ️️1896 SC ruling that upheld the legality of Jim Crow laws. "Separat...

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"White Man's Burden" - ✔️✔️1899 A poem by British poet Rudyard Kipling commenting
on American imperialism. It created a phrase used by imperialists to justify the
imperialistic actions the U.S. took.


Plessy v. Ferguson - ✔️✔️1896 SC ruling that upheld the legality of Jim Crow laws.
"Separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites.

Eugene V. Debs - ✔️✔️American union leader, one of the founding members of the
Industrial Workers of the World and 5 time candidate for President under Socialist Party.

The Jungle - ✔️✔️This 1906 work by Upton Sinclair pointed out the abuses of the meat
packing industry. The book led to the passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.


The New KKK - ✔️✔️1920's. trans-U.S. network of Klan with racist, anti-semite, anti-
catholic and anti-immigrant motives

Dawes Severalty Act - ✔️✔️1887 act that ended federal recognition of tribes and
divided Indian land into 160 acre pieces to be distributed to Indians heads of household.
This dramatically reduced the amount of Indian controlled land and hurt Indian culture.

USS Maine - ✔️✔️1898 Ship that explodes off the coast of Cuba in Havana harbor and
helps contribute to the start of the Spanish-American War

The Fourteen Points - ✔️✔️1918 President Wilson war aims which he believed would
promote lasting peace
-freedom of the seas
-end to secret agreements
-reduction of arms
-a league of nations
-Ultimately failed and led to a snowball effect into WW2.

Pullman Strike - ✔️✔️1894 violent railway workers' strike
-Chicago and spread nationwide
-was a turn-point for the US Labor Law

Frederick Law Olmsted - ✔️✔️Designer of New York City's Central Park, who wanted
cities that exposed people to the beauties of nature. One of his projects, the Chicago
Columbian Exposition of 1893, gave a rise to the influential "City Beautiful" movement

The Scopes "Monkey Trial" - ✔️✔️1925

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