Progressive Era
The period from 1890 to 1920 when many believed a solution to social problems in the nation lay in the more active role by the government.
What is the Progressive Era?
This granted settlers 160 acres of free land on the condition that they live on the property for a minimum of 5 years, construct a dwelling, and cultivate crops on the land.
What is the Homestead act?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is imperialism?
1920's is the most sensational government scandal in U.S. history. People in Harding’s Cabinet took payments or bribes from private companies in order to lease lands containing oil reserves at Teapot Dome.
What is Teapot Dome Scanda?
The stock market crash of 1929 in October, billions of dollars were lost on the New York Stock Exchange.
What is Black Tuesday?
A "Secret Society" that originally formed in the late 1860's by ex-cofederate soldiers to reconstruction but was disbanded.
What is the Ku Kluz Klan?
Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, Arapaho, and Kiowa.
What is Mojor Indian tribes of the great plans?
Created a stalemate where neither side would advance for long periods would lead to "trench foot".
What is Trench Warfare?
Russian Revolution started as a worker Revolt, Americans associated labor strikes to Communism, People feared that communists wanted to overthrow the U.S. Government.
What is the red scare?
Tariffs, Stock Market Speculation, and Bank failures.
What is the Great Depression?
Was the co-founder of the Hull House that focuses on helping immigrants preserveve their culture values while helping them better assistmilate into a more American lifestyle.
Who is Jane Addams?
Most notable Carlisle industrial school.
What is Native American Boarding School?
Cuban Revolution, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Yellow Journalism were all causes of this.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Thousands of immigrants were arrested and 500 were deported, No evidence was found of any plot to overthrow the U.S. Government, These raids were considered to be an abuse of federal power.
What is The Palmer Raids cont?
The president that served through The Great Depression and World War 1, and the only president to be elected to more than 2 terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Born a slave in Virginia, believed that African Americans should focus on job training and education.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Reservations were broken up and distributed to individual families while surplus was given to white settlers in an effort to assimilate to the American lifestyle.
What is the Dawes Act?
Soldiers who returned from war are going to experience PTSD and also inclued staring eyes, violent tremors, blue, cold extremities, and unixplained deafness, blindness or paralysis.
What is shell shock?
Cutting their hair short, Wearing short skirts, Putting on makeup, Drinking, and smoking in public, rejecting the constricting styles of the Victorian Era.
What is Flappers?
Years of sustained drought caused the land to dry up Many farmers misused the land by generally over-planting and not rotating crops which depleted the topsoil.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Tariff reform, Banking reform, and trust-busting are all 3 main forces in what movement.
What is the Temperance movement?
When gold was discovered in Alaska, many prospects traveled from Washington to Alaska.
What is Klondike Gold Rush?
The turning point of World War 1 I succeeded in its objective to capture and break important German railroad stations, a final Allied offensive that forced the Germans to agree to the armistice.
What is The battle of Argonne forest?
Started in a small part of Manhattan (NYC), this was an era of songwriting when many new genres of music were mixed together to form American Popular Music.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
Worked on bridges and buildings is also known as CVC.
What is Civil Works Administration?