Gilded Age + Westward Expansion
This economic philosophy means "to let be." It means little to no government involvement.
What is laissez-faire?
This president was known as a Progressive. During his term he expanded government regulations, promoted conservationist policies, and expanded American imperial influence.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This policy in China demanded free trade by imperial powers regardless of region.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This is the nickname given to the 1920s because of the many social and cultural changes during that time.
What is the Roaring 20s?
This was the name of FDR's domestic policy.
What is the New Deal?
This process of manufacturing helped reduce the price of most consumer goods. It helped replace skilled craftsmen with unskilled laborers.
What is the assembly line?
This book, written about the meat packing industry in the United States, created such a strong backlash against its poor conditions that the United States passed the Meat Inspection Act and formed the FDA.
What is The Jungle?
This foreign policy exchanged invading Latin American countries for influencing them via investments, but wound up failing.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
This was the foreign policy of the United States through much of the 1920s and 1930s.
What is isolationism?
This event during the Great Depression saw an environmental disaster plague Great Plains farmers, many of which were forced to leave.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This act broke up the reservations American Indians lived on. It gave tribe members 160 acres of land to farm on, destroying tribal identity.
What is the Dawes Act (1887)?
These are the two largest civil rights advocates during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. One believed in vocational education and later civil rights, and one believed in higher education and immediate civil rights.
Who are Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois?
This court case (need the full name) saw the establishment of the Clear and Present Danger doctrine, which stated that if speech creates a danger it is not allowed.
This was the fear of Communism in the United States after World War I as a result of the numerous Communist revolutions taking place across Europe.
What is the Red Scare?
These places were where people lived while they were searching for jobs.
What are Hoovervilles?
People began moving in huge numbers to this type of place, where they received easier access to transportation, employment, and education.
What is a city?
Before the Progressives, this group advocated for reform and the creation of the gold and silver standard.
What are the Populists?
These are the three reasons the United States annexed Hawaii (name all).
What is American-owned sugar plantations, the desire for a naval base at Pearl Harbor, and its geographic proximity to China?
This act was signed into law in the early 1920s as a result of the Red Scare. It limited immigration based on someone's country of origin.
What is the Emergency Quota Immigration Act?
This was Herbert Hoover's belief that people should be able to pull themselves out of poverty. It received considerable backlash during the Great Depression.
What is Rugged Individualism?
These groups controlled cities by utilizing the Spoils System, controlling utility companies. and voter and opponent intimidation. They made money using graft, taking money in exchange for legislation.
What are political machines?
Name three reforms from the Progressive Era.
What are:
Direct election of senators, graduated income tax, direct primaries, recall elections, referendums, the right to petition for laws, the Federal Reserve, general workplace safety reforms, the Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Acts, conservationism, secret ballots, the 19th Amendment, the 18th Amendment?
These are the four reasons the United States entered WWI. Name 3:
What is unrestricted submarine warfare, violation of freedom of the seas, the Zimmerman Telegram, and the sinking of the RMS Lusitania?
This was the name for women in the 1920s taking part in cultural and social trends.
What are flappers?
This was Franklin Roosevelt's plan to staff one branch of the US Federal Government with 6 new members loyal to him. It was not approved and led to him being seen as a dictator.
What is the Court Packing Plan?