Shiny New America
The definition of Gilded
Covered in a thin layer of gold
Groups of workers who unite to demand better wages and working conditions
labour unions
The idea that Americans were destined to expand west and spread democracy
Manifest Destiny
What is the Bust in Boom & Bust?
Great Depression
The women-led group that discouraged the consumption of alcohol, pushing for prohibition.
Women's Christian Temperance Movement
The process America experienced beginning in the early 19th century involving factories, machines, and mass production
Industrialization
Alice Paul used this tactic in prison to protest being treated as criminals
hunger strikes
The idea that only people born in the country should be able to live there -- high hostility against immigrants
Nativism
Name one example of an environmental factor affecting the Great Depression
Dust Bowl, Floods, Black Blizzards, Drought
The President that inherited the great Depression from Hoover
(Double Points for his full name)
FDR (Franklin D Roosevelt)
Immigration laws in the late 19th century (and early 20th) discouraged which groups from coming to America?
- 3 groups
Asian Immigrants
South Europeans
West Europeans
What was Teddy Roosevelt's plan that promised fairness to consumers and workers?
Square Deal
This 1882 law was the first major federal restriction on immigration by race or nationality.
the Chinese Exclusion Act?
How did the rise of advertisements and credit change the way people interacted with goods and services?
Rise in consumerism/Mass Consumption
The Treaty that officially ended WWI
Treaty of Versaille
The government policies during the 19th century favoring the interests of big businesses
Laissez-Faire
What was the railroad completed in 1869 that linked the East and West Coasts for the first time?
Transcontinental Railroad
The cause of WWI attributed to an increased sense of pride in your country whilst believing other countries are inferior
The cultural and social movement producing various talented black artists, intellectuals, and musicians (such as Louis Armstrong!)
Harlem Renaissance
List two causes of the Great Migration
- Lynchings
- Greater job opportunities
- social freedom
- Natural disasters
- Jim Crow Laws
The court case (where a man was arrested for not giving up his seat in a train) that led to the Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v Ferguson
Name 3 muckrakers
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair
Ida B Wells
Helen Hunt
Ida Tarbell
The name of the ship that sunk, attributed to causing the Spanish American War
U.S.S. Maine
The name of the shanty towns created during the great depression
Hoovervilles
What is Ms. J's favourite class?
Her Planning Period