Thinking like a Historian and The Great Depression
The government’s “hands off” approach to the economy
What is Laissez-Faire?
a nationwide effort organized in the 1910's to coordinate programs designed to assimilate immigrants into American culture. An example is the Native American Boarding Schools
What is Americanization?
Limited the voting rights of African Americans
What did the Jim Crow Laws do?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
What is Imperialism?
Study of human improvement by genetic means and a way to get rid of racial and biological “mistakes.”
What is Eugenics?
A document of the first 10 amendments to the U.S. constitution, and a formal declaration of the legal and civil rights of the citizens of any state, country, or federation
What is the Bill of Rights?
Longer work shifts, paid less, 12 hour shifts, 6 days a week
What are Poor Labor Conditions?
A secret society that originally formed in the late 1860's by ex-Confederate soldiers in opposition to Reconstruction
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Led The Treaty of Paris to be signed in 1898
What is an effect of the Spanish-American War?
Italian immigrants charged with robbery and murder at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree without sufficient evidence or a fair trial
What is the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti?
Limits the presidency to two terms
What is the 22nd Amendment?
Banned Chinese women from entering the U.S in 1882 and was the first major law restricting immigration into the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Strengthens the federal government's ability to break up trusts
What is the Clayton's Antitrust Act?
The turning point of World War I. Succeeded in its objective to capture and break important German railroad stations. And the final Allied offensive that forced the Germans to agree to the armistice.
What was the Battle of Argonne Forest in World War I?
An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship. Manly in New York City and led to the creation of jazz music
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Tariffs, Stock Market Speculation, and Bank Failures
What caused the Great Depression?
Cornelius Vanderbilt - Railroads, Andrew Carnegie - Steel, John D. Rockefeller - Oil, J.P. Morgan - Banking. Made a big impact on the industrial and economical aspects of the U.S.
Who were the Major Entrepreneurs?
Lobbying, Nonviolent Protesting, and Litigation (except voting) to participate
What are the three major ways to participate in the democratic process?
Often created a stalemate where neither side would advance for long periods of time, took place during WWI
What did Trench Warfare do?
A Russian revolution started as a worker revolt, Americans associated labor strike to communism
What is the Red Scare?
Hundreds of thousands migrated from the mid-west, many to California or some stayed and suffer with it
What did people do during the The Dust Bowl?
Supported everything from the discovery of insulin and the dismantling of nuclear weapons, to the creation of Pell Grants and Sesame Street
What did Andrew Carnegie’s philanthropy do?
A journalist who wrote "How the Other Half Lives" the book gave a vivid look at the life for ethnic groups of New York City living in the tenement slums and led to calls for government assistance to help the urban poor
Who is Jacob Riis?
Britain, Russia, and France contribution to WWI
Who were the Allied Powers?
A substitute teacher was put on trial for teaching Evolution
What is the The Scopes Trial?