HISTORY

Was not as expensive or high end, focused on keeping costs to a minimum so they can seel for the least amt. ("no frills")

No credit or delivery, you would pay and carry it home by yourself.

Changed grocery shopping, by getting rid of the salesman and allowed people to access the products themselves. Also rat mazes were created so one would see everything in the store before being able to leave.

Five and ten cent store

Founded the one of the first five and dime stores. By 1900, he had 59 stores and was still growing. Known for window displays, no advertising, low priced goods, and paid low wages.

the idea that the goods would sell themselves based off of the type of item, price, and the presentation and he would collect the money.

isolation

"absentee salesmanship" in Chicago
1872: he traveled town to town and took orders, but it wasn't very efficient. He is known for mail order. Cut 40% off the cost bc he bought directly from the manufacturer.
1884 catalog: 240 pgs, 1000 items, he tried to find out what would sell and if it didnt sell he took it out of the catalog.
he also offered malt nutrine- which was a byproduct of beer that they tried to sell off as a nutrient drink.

Electric belt

1886: sold watches. started business in Minneapolis but later moved it to Chicago.

watchmaker that later teamed up with Richard Warren Sears.

1893: had many products
1907: $53,188,901 sales
used a catalog to advertise, deluxe editions were bound in red cloth and for the best customer the catalog was free.
1903: bought own printing company

Circulation:
318,000: 1897
1 million: 1904
3 million: 1907
1894: 500 pages long
used colored images, it sold better than b&w
aka Famers' Bible

Farmers used this for reading and spelling, arithmetic, drawing, geography, hygiene

True or False: Aaron Ward Mont. started his mail order by selling watches.

Wrote about the poor working conditions in the meat packing facilities in Chicago. his book, THE JUNGLE, motivated the Am. public to demand the fed. govt. to regulate the meatpacking industry.

Progressive organization that focused on ending prostitution

Won the 1912 and 1916 presidential election by promising that, if elected, he would keep the US out of any wars in Europe.

order of presidency: 1900-1920

one of the things that pushed the US into entering WWI on the side of the Allies against the Germans. In it, the German Foreign Secretary tried to convince the Mexican government to declare war against the US. It was intercepted and leaked to the media.

The Army Alpha test was given to those who were literate in?

What did R.W. Sears sale when he was involved in "absentee salesmanship"?

in the film clip about the recruitment of African Americans to fight in the war in Europe one of the narrators made it clear that the Brits fighting did not respect them. Even the germans did not respect them. What did they often refers them as?

True or False: Progressives believed that capitalism was morally bankrupt and needed to be replaced with a new ideology.

Where was Jane adam's Hull House located?

True or False: Associationalism was considered to be too unamerican bc it created distinct groups in society.

These people were often corrupt, but recieved support from voters because they were able to cut through red tape and get things done, such as better roads, sewage and water systems, etc. They were often mayors.

When did the fighting of WWI start?

The Sussex Pledge was given by which country?

Famous designer and parisians developed this perfume as a response to the odor coming from the front lines 90 miles from Paris.

True or False: Army's Beta test was for those soldiers who could speak English and were literate.

True or False: Airplane played a critical role in WWI. Some even claimed it was the most important tool in a country's arsenal of weapons.

This Attorney general of the US led a campaign to stamp out what he believed was a communist threat to overthrow the US government.

In this city, in Jan 1919, a massive strike by dockworkers and shipworkers sent shockwaves through the nation. It convinced many that there was truly a communist conspiracy.

He was appointed by A. Mitchell Palmer to head the antiradicalism division of the Justive Dept. Later he became head of the newly created FBI.

Publicity stunt by the US govt to demonstrate that they were ridding the country of communists.

true or false: Sacco and Vanzetti were known as patriotic prisioners.

true or false: 19th amendment outlawed possession, manufacture, and distribution of alcohol.

Federal agency that worked to find ways to utilize he innovations and new technologies developed during the war.

Created laws that forbid the use of alcohol in the U.S.

Boxer that defended his title in the "fight of the Century" in 1910 by knocking out James Jeffries in the 15th round.

Progressivism (7 main points)

Progressives insisted on:

Wrote Looking Backward

Wrote Theory of the Leisure Class

believed in Public schools and that all children were born with a blank slate

2 types of reformers?

used by moral reformers to address the problem of poverty

Opened the Hull House 1889 in Chicago

what did Jane Addams do?

moral reformers def. of Americanize?

Movie installments that people were trying to robs for nickels

women's groups agst. drinking

moral reformers completely closed the door on immigrants

name the 4 muckrakers

Reformer the used science to back it up, started specialization, associationalism, and wanted to shape a better environment

Known for cumbersome machinery, physical expansion, immigration diversity, bureacracy, normally a nayor

Under which administration was the Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 passed?

Was the Mayor of Chicago from 1955 to 1976 and was considered the last of the big city political bosses.

name big city poli. bosses

In machine politics, during off election time they go around the community to see how everyones doing and their job was to accommodate communities request.

Roosevelt ptogressives

Wilson Progressives

known for being conservative, but progressive, committed to action, "bully to pulpit"

Roosevelt prosecutes lg businesses for trying to control large commodities

two acts that gave Roosevelt more authority

prosecute bad business

Child labor law the limited age

Both acts were directly resulted from THE JUNGLE

Square Deal, regulate big business, govt. intervention, conservation and efficiency

largest president (332lbs) , picked by Roosevelt, known for rule of law

Congress makes law, supreme interprets, exec enforces it and interprets it

Wilsons Acts

If you're not at war, you have the right to conduct trade with another country that is also not at wat, you can trade with people at war as long as it wasn't military goods

Germans called the U-boats

allied tactic that got around international Law

no warning, lots of americans killed, americans were mad bc of Germans, But the germans promised to follow rules of humanity

known as "the great War", people wanted a utopia but it doesn't happen

Ernest Hemmingway, Americans after the war who are unsure of what to do

central powers

allied powers

Vickers MK 1 belt fed and Rapid Fire

Types of poison gas

people lived in them, they were very basic, had problems with water, under bombardment, dead bodies would sit in there for a few days, human waste

Rotting feet from not keep them clean and dry

caused psychological problems, PTSD: happened from hiding in the trench underground and the shock from the bomb would travel through the ground

when was the first SAT?

ends the war

14 points

who was the treaty opposed by?

"new age", "modern man", "modernity"

African Americans moving out of the south but it only caused more racial tension bc they were fighting over housing and jobs

Anti-German propaganda

Economy in slump, attitude during war, labor disputes

labor strikes, seattle, 35000 shipworkers

34 bombs in the US Mail

Nativist, Immigrant conspiracy, in june 19191 a bomb was delivered to him

Nov. 1919, series of raids, scooping up thousands of illegal immigrants and putting them in jail

Jan. 1920, arrested 6000 people, patriotic prisoners refused to share cells with communists

Accused of murdering shop owner, anarchists, legal lynching, death row 6 yrs

Leader of KKK

teaches evolution in 1925 dayton, tn

at baylor university, taught evolution at a baptist university

Concerned about evolution being taught in schools

Anti evolution bill in Mississippi

signs of economic trouble

Oct. 24, 1929, 9% value if stock market lost in one day

Oct. 28, 1929, 13% dropped

oct. 29th, 1929, 12% drop

By 1932, this percentage of stock market value has been lost?

Unemployment rate in 1929?

was the stock market crash the cause of the Great Depression?

weaknesses of American Economy

banks lost in the depression?

in 1932, people wages are cut by what percentage since 1929?

the immigrant mother

traveled across the west from oklahoma trying to get jobs

Where did the battle of Blair mountain occur?

He was in the Atlanta Federal Prison when he ran for President in 1920.