Democracy
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson uses this term to refer to the king.
What is a Tyrant.
He invented the camera, the phonograph and a power plant.
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
The main goals of the movement were to create economic reform, protect social welfare, and foster efficiency in the work place.
What is the Progressive Movement.
After this war, the US gained control over Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish American War.
An African American literary and artistic movement of the 1920s
What is the Harlem Renaissance
Within this philosophy, people are all born with equal natural rights came.
What is the Enlightenment philosophy
Natural selection leads to survival of the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism.
This political party set the agenda of reforms for the first half of the 20th century.
What is the Populist Party.
President Taft's foreign policy which encouraged bankers to lend money to Latin America in order to better influence their business affairs.
What is Dollar Diplomacy
This trial debated whether public schools should teach the theory of evolution.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial.
The US branch of government with the power to declare war, levy taxes, and regulate trade,
What is the Legislative Branch.
Companies dominated an industry decreasing competition and raising prices.
What is a trust.
Journalists that helped raise public awareness of the industrial problems.
What is Muckrackers.
This engineering marvel would help the US defend its new empire and created better trade routes to Asia.
What is the Panama Canal.
This civil rights group wanted the integration of African Americans into American society.
What is the NAACP.
The Massachusetts Compromise ratified The Constitution on the condition that congress would add the first ten amendments known as.
What is the Bill of Rights
Overcrowded and unsanitary housing.
What is tenement buildings.
The book The Jungle, exposed unsanitary working conditions and prompted Theodore Roosevelt to protect consumers passing new law.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act
Senators feared joining this global entity would further entangle them in the affairs of other countires.
What is the League of Nations.
Organized crime increased due to the ban on alcohol.
What is prohibition.
The agreement made by the pilgrims which promoted the power of the government comes from the consent of the governed.
What is the Mayflower Compact
Frustrated by the mass wage of immigrants to the US which was driving down wages, the US government reduced immigration from this country.
The centralized banking system create while Woodrow Wilson was president.
What is the Federal Reserve.
Warren G Harding was involved in a scandal accepting bribes form large oil companies.
This belief favors natives and opposes immigration which increased discrimination towards immigrants, led to the Palmer Raids, the Quota System and the Revival of the Ku Klux Klan.
What is Nativism