Gilded Age
The desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.
What is the term Philantrophy?
A person who actively works to change/improve society or the government
What's a reformer (in the progressive era)?
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
What is Imperialism?
WWI veterans returning home have difficulty finding work
A lot of people wanted to return to traditional ways
Saw increased inflation
What were the effects in the US after WW1?
It occurred on October 29, 1929, when billions of dollars were lost on the New York Stock Exchange. America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the western industrialized world up to that time.
What was the Stock Market Crash?
The first railroad that linked the east to the west, connecting Sacramento, California to Omaha, Nebraska.
What was the Transcontinental railroad?
The impacts were: increased examination of American life, many pieces of legislation will be passed.
What was the impact of mukrakers and reformers?
- Cuba is liberated from Spanish control and the U.S. can intervene to protect Cuba’s right to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”
- U.S. is allowed to maintain a military base in Cuba (Guantanamo Bay)
- Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico become U.S. territories
What was the Treaty of Paris (1898)
By 1920s, it 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 was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
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
Causes of the Dust Bowl?
The U.S. Government outlawed traditional American Indian religious ceremonies and forced many to assimilate into American culture and lifestyle.
What was Americanization and Forced Assimilation?
She co-founded of Hull House in Chicago which focused on helping immigrants preserve their cultural values while helping them better assimilate into a more American lifestyle.
Who was Jane Addams?
Originally stated that Europe was not to intervene with South America, President Theodore Roosevelt will add the Roosevelt Corollary to it which increased the U.S. involvement in Latin America.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
People feared that communists wanted to overthrow the U.S. Government
What was the Red Scare?
They were shanty towns created by the homeless throughout the United States. They blamed President Hoover for the Great Depression
What were hoovervilles?
- Overcrowded cities
- Unsanitary living conditions and increased health issues
- Ethnic communities (Little Italy, Chinatown, etc.)
What were the effects of urbanization?
He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University and set the framework for the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
Who was WEB DuBois?
Militarism, Alliances, nationalism, Imperialism, assassination of an Archduke.
What were the causes of WW1?
Protecting the interests of Native-born citizens at the expense of immigrants
What is Nativism?
Tariffs, stock market speculation, bank failures...
Causes of Great Depression?
They gained the support of the population by:
- making improvements to urban infrastructures
- providing jobs to immigrants and the poor
- giving favors to local businessmen.
What were political machines?
first federal law regulating business
Resulted in the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) which would monitor railroad pricing and would later expanded to include other businesses, such as oil companies, shipping on inland waterways, and trucking;
What was the Interstate Commerce Act?
was a formation of the United States Army on the Western Front of World War established on July 5, 1917, in France
It fought alongside the French, British, Canadian, New Zealand, and Australian armies against the Germans.
What was the AEF?
Cutting their hair short
Wearing short skirts
Putting on makeup
Drinking and smoking in public
Rejecting the constricting styles of the Victorian Era
What were the effects of Flappers?
They were blamed for the economic crisis.
What were Mexicans blamed for?