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Terms History exam 2 (W.E.B Dubois (First African American to receive a Ph…
Terms History exam 2
W.E.B Dubois
First African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard, writer and sociologist.
W.E.B. Du Bois, first supported the Atlanta Compromise and Washington’s gradualist tactics, but after 1909 strongly opposed this approach.
He insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite.
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington Head of the Tuskegee Institute, of one the first black colleges, Washington became the most influential spokesman for black Americans in the 1890's.
He urged blacks to forget about politics and college education in the classics and languages. Instead, he felt that they should learn to be better artisans and farmers.
Mary Phagan
27 April, Newt Lee the night watchman, found Mary Phaganfound strangled to death in the factory's basement. Police are called and rush to the scene.
26 April 1913 Mary Phagan, 14-year old employee of the National Pencil was stopped on her way the Confederate Memorial Day parade to pick up her salary. Leo M. Frank the factory manager was there in his office.
Leo Frank
American factory superintendent who was convicted in 1913 of the murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Number of young female factory employees testified to his perverted behavior towards them. From testimony seems that Phagan was killed defending herself against Frank’s sexual advance.
Frank J. Loesch
Lesch studied law at night, didn’t like defending criminals, so he ended up working as a corporation counsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Chicago starting in 1886.
1914 he became corporation counsel for the Union Station Company which mostly owned by Pennsylvania.
Sheridan A. Bruseaux
Investigation of the Elders who were Jewish and other Jewish mobsters sparked the anger of elements of Chicago’s Jewish population. who resented Bruseaux and squad of investigators possessing such power.
Little Rock Arkansas graduated with a law degree from University of Minnesota In 1914. He Served in the American secret (intelligence) service in Europe 1914 –1919.
Pineapple Primary
City had fallen into lawlessness, the lead up to the spring 1928 primary campaign had been one of murder, fraud, kidnapping and assault.
Two of the 115 bombs which exploded during the primary damaged the homes of Senator Charles S. Deneen and John A. Swanson, both high profile opponents of the Crowe –Thompson political machine.
Jacob Schiff
Head of the New York investment firm Kuhn, Loeb and Co.
He was one of the principal backers of the Bolshevik revolution and personally financed Leon Trotsky's trip from New York to Russian.
Richarde Kyle Fox
Richard Kyle Fox was a publisher for the National Police Gazette
Would set fighters up against each other usually by using things such as race to pin them as enemies. Fox created six weight classifications and a championship belt for each.
Lockhart Plot (1918)
Alleged to have taken place in the immediate aftermath of World War One. Lockhart Plot was an assassination attempt on Vladimir Lenin sanctioned, though denied, by the British government.
White Sox Scandal (1919)
Were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for money from a gambling syndicate led by Arnold Rothstein, Aiden Clayton and Aaron Nelson.
Alphonse Capone
Capone arranged for the assassination of Tarrio’sboss Big Jim Colsimomaking way for Torrio’s rule of Italian organized crime in Chicago.
Frank J. Loesh
Prominent Chicago attorney, reformer and a founder of the Chicago Crime Commission, which attempted to combat widespread corruption and organized crime related violence.
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty (1901)
Treaty signed by the United States and Great Britain on 18 November 1901, as a legal preliminary to the U.S. building the Panama Canal.
George Lewis "Tex" Rickard
A lawman in Texas early in his career hence the nickname “Tex".
Later owned the New York Rangers Hockey team and the popularity of great champions such as John L. Sullivan.
Newport Sox Sandel (1919)
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John J. Pershing
Woodrow Wilson appointed General John J. Pershing in May 1917, and Pershing remained in command for the entire war.
Pershing insisted that American soldiers be well-trained before going to Europe.
Karl and Betha Benz
German automotive pioneer. She was the business partner and wife of automobile inventor Karl Benz.First person to drive an automobile over a long distance, rigorously field testing the patent Motorwagen.
German engine designer, automobile engineer. Benz Patent Motorcar from 1885 is considered the first practical automobile. He received a patent for the motorcar in 1886.
George Hacksenschmidt
Born in Dorpat (Tartu), Governorate of Livonia (what is now Estonia), in 1877. From a young age, he spent most of his time in the pursuit of physical fitness, excelling in cycling, gymnastics, swimming, running and jumping.
Began wrestling professionally in 1900 and by 1901, he was recognized as wrestling’s first World Heavyweight Champion.
Alexander Keslula
From Estonia, for nationalist and revolution activities against Tsarist authorities he forced to escape from Estonia in 1906.
Kesküla contacted the German embassy in Bern, Switzerland and offered his services to the German government. Kesküla explained his goal to Germans as to rejoin Estonia with the Kingdom of Sweden, essentially to reestablish the Swedish Empire from the time of Gustavus Adolphus.
Josephus Daniels
A North Carolina newspaper publisher.
Secretary of Navy –he used his position to crusade against liquor, work on Sunday, racial mixing, and prostitution.
John Steiner (ballons)
Emigrated from Germany in 1853 and quickly established himself as a daring aeronaut.
First attempt to fly to Canada across Lake Erie, made him famous .
RMS Lusitania
7 May 1915 the British liner RMS Lusitania was sunk off the coast of Ireland, killing hundreds including 128 Americans.
Being used to secretly carry ammunition to Britain, something the German Intelligence likely knew about.
Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
British Naval Intelligence had tapped an American owned cable from Denmark to the US with knowledge of Woodrow Wilson.
6 January 1917, intercepted a coded message from Germany Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann to Heinrich von Eckardt, the German Ambassador in Mexico City.
John Holland (submarines)
Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1.
Simon lake (submarine)
Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Philip Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy.
Glenn Curtiss
American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles.
Walter Camp (football)
American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". Among a long list of inventions, he created the sport's line of scrimmage and the system of downs.
Wilbur and Orville Wright
American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
Hnery Ford
Rreorganized the method of automobile production. He decided to standardize products of his small company, producing only one model, and simplifying the parts so they were inexpensive and easy to install; this standardized automobile was the Model T.
Leon Trotsk
Soviet revolutionary, Marxist theorist and politician whose particular strain of Marxist thought is known as Trotskyism.
Ferdinand (Graf) von Zeppelin
German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships; he founded the company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin.
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Ten Tragic Days (1913)
February and 18 February 1913 fighting between the forces of Díaz federal troops in Mexico City under the command of Victoriano Huerta.
The US Ambassador to Mexico offers to mediate to end the fighting within the city. It is not only humanitarian concerns towards the Mexicans but to protect the numerous Americans in the Mexico City.
The Lost Generation
America, the rich and upper-middle-class, effected by the destruction of European civilization in the First World War and the great prosperity of the time, ignored convention and lived recklessly.
Though America’s involvement in World War I was short and casualties small compared to other powers –the war had a terrible effect on many young men who went to war idealistically and came back physically broken and disillusioned.
Paris Peace Conference of 1919
Known as the Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting in 1919 and 1920 of the victorious.
Allies after the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.
Alexander Kerensky
Became leader of a republican government in Russia. The various nationalities began to work towards independence.
Black tom Terminal Explosion (1916)
The transfer point for munitions to loaded to freighters bound for France and Britain.
Merian C. Copper
United States Air Force and Polish Air Force officer, adventurer, screenwriter, film director, and producer. Cooper was the founder of the Kościuszko Squadron during the Polish–Soviet War and was a Soviet prisoner of war for a time.
Kosciuszko Squadron
Polish military set up a unit called the Polish-American Air Group. It was hoped they could get enough pilots to have two groups.
Tom Prendergast (Kansas City)
American political boss who controlled Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri from 1925 to 1939.
Perdicaris Incident (1904)
The Perdicaris affair refers to the kidnapping of Greek-American playboy Ion "Jon" Hanford Perdicaris and his stepson, Cromwell Varley, a British subject, by Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli and his bandits on 18 May 1904 in Tangier, Morocco.
Open Note Door (1899)
Term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century that would allow for a system of trade in China open to all countries equally.
Xenophon (Dmitrievich de Blumenthal) Kalamatiano
American from Racine, Wisconsin was of the American Intelligence Service in Russia –he had served previously as the manager of a manufacturing firm in the Ukraine.
Ran his own network of agents and cooperated with Reilly in organization of the Lockhart Plot. Social Revolutionaries were defeated in street fighting with the Latvian Riflemen, Kalamatiano was captured by the Cheka on September 18, 1918 and imprisoned by the Bolshevik Government.
Basil Zaharoff
Born Vasileios Zacharias, was a Greek arms dealer and industrialist. One of the richest men in the world during his lifetime, Zaharoff was described as a "merchant of death" and "mystery man of Europe".