Unit 5
This act, passed in 1882, restricted Chinese immigration to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This railroad, completed in 1869, connected the East and West coasts of the United States, facilitating settlement and economic expansion.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This 1920s cultural movement centered on women who rejected traditional norms, symbolized by short skirts, bobbed hair, and social freedom.
What is Flapper Culture?
This term refers to the process of a country or region transitioning from an agrarian society to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing.
What is industrialization?
This act extended the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1892
What is the Geary Act?
This businessman is best known for using vertical integration to control all aspects of the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This 1899 doctrine stated that the U.S. would not allow European intervention in the Western Hemisphere, asserting its dominance over the region.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The Scopes Trial of 1925 was a legal battle over whether this should be taught in public schools, highlighting tensions between science and religion.
What is evolution?
This term describes a business strategy where companies in the same industry merge to eliminate competition.
What is horizontal integration?
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This event, which took place in 1886 in Chicago, resulted in a bombing during a labor rally, leading to the decline of the Knights of Labor and heightened anti-union sentiment.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This term refers to the theory proposed by historian Frederick Jackson Turner, which argued that the American frontier shaped the nation's character.
What is the Frontier Thesis?
This catastrophic event in 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression, wiping out billions in stock value.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This event marked the end of armed Native American resistance in 1890 when U.S. troops killed approximately 300 Lakota people.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
What is the Versailles Treaty?
The creation of these entities allowed business leaders to coordinate their efforts and eliminate competition through legal means, often resulting in monopolies.
What are trusts?
The Native American victory over the U.S. Army in this 1876 battle led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse was a major moment in the Indian resistance.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The Manhattan Project developed this powerful weapon that would eventually be used on Japan in 1945.
What are atomic weapons?
This term refers to the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, particularly on the West Coast.
What is Japanese-American incarceration?
This 20th-century movement had over 6 million African Americans leave the South in search of industrial jobs and to escape Jim Crow laws.
What is the Great Migration?
This monetary system, where currency is directly linked to a specific amount of gold, was used by the U.S. until it was abandoned in 1933 during the Great Depression.
What is the gold standard?
This war in 1898 resulted in the U.S. acquiring Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This 1935 act created a system of government-run benefits for elderly Americans, the unemployed, and those with disabilities.
What is the Social Security Act?
This term refers to the use of mass media, particularly newspapers, to create sensationalized stories to attract readers and stir public emotions.
What is yellow journalism?
What is the Platt Amendment?