Gilded Age
Owner of Standard Oil Monopoly
Who was John D Rockefeller
Founded the Hull House and other settlement houses to advocate for women’s right to vote and immigrant support
Who is Jane Addams?
A man-made waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to help ships avoid going around the tip of South America
What is the Panama Canal?
The U.S. flew planes over the Soviet blockade of Berlin to get supplies to West Berlin without military conflict
What was the Berlin Airlift?
The agency responsible in protecting the environment and wildlife
What was the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Banned the practice of slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Organizations/Companies that control an entire sector of business, such as oil or steel
What were monopolies?
A national ban on the manufacture, distribution, & and sale of alcohol
What is Prohibition?
Caused by trench warfare, halted any progression from either side of the conflict
What is stalemate?
The U.S. & Soviets promoted science & technology as they both attempted to develop nuclear arsenals
What was the Arms Race?
Nixon attempted to cover up information which led to growing cynicism and loss in government trust
What was the Watergate Scandal?
1.) African American military pilots
2.) Served in WW2
3.) Encouraged integration of armed forces
What were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Assimilation of Native Americans into America
What was the Dawes Act?
Law that banned the sale of expired foods, medicines, and other unsafe products
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
The sinking of the USS Maine led to this conflict
What was the Spanish American War?
US policy where where we would halt the spread of Communism
What is containment?
The easing of tensions between the US and Soviet Union
What was detente?
Law that gave individuals 160 acres of land out West if they lived and improved it
What was the Homestead Act?
Individual who was in control over a large monopoly on trains and transportation
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt “The Commodore”?
Investigative journalist who wrote The Jungle and helped expose the horrors of the meat packing industry
Who was Upton Sinclair?
This act violated the 1st amendment by making it a crime to criticize the government and the war
What was the Espionage and Sedition Act?
Invasion of North into South in an attempt to unify their peninsula, US helped repel invasion and eventually invade opposing side, war ended with no significant change
What was the Korean War?
The group of oil producing countries that placed and embargo on the US causing a massive spike in gas prices
What is OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)?
Citizens could propose a new law that will end up on The ballot to be voted on (one of the Progressive Era Reforms)
What is initiative?
The belief that the rich were successful due to them being superior to the poor, based on the theory of evolution
What was Social Darwinism?
The organization founded by WEB DuBois to help minority citizens gain their rights
What was the NAACP?
Leader of the American Expeditionary Force
Who was John J Pershing?
The resolution which gave the president the authority to declare war on other countries and sent troops to Vietnam
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Reagan sold weapons to a Middle Eastern country, then gave the money to a revolutionary group in Nicarauga all without approval, causing a massive scandal
What was the Iran-Contra Affair?
The details of the 6th Amendment
What are the right to a speedy and fair trial, right to an attorney, Miranda Rights?