Unit 1
System of currency backed only by gold.
What is the Gold Standard?
Shift in population from rural areas to cities. Impacted by immigration and economic trends.
What is urbanization?
Journalists who looked for dirt on politicians, industrialists, and major companies in order to expose their corruption.
Who are muckrakers?
This new transportation route enabled the USA to quickly move ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific or from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
What is the Panama Canal?
This muckraker wrote The Jungle, and shocked the nation with details about the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The industrialist who owned the Standard Oil Company, the richest man in America.
Who is John Rockefeller?
A political process where a regular citizen can propose legislation, even though they are not an elected official.
What is an initiative?
Violent peasant uprising that attempted to throw foreigners out of China.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
These worker's organizations used collective bargaining power, strikes, mediation, and walk outs to fight for better treatment of workers.
What are labor unions?
Forms of voter suppression common in the Reconstruction era South, aimed at preventing Black Americans from voting.
Immigrants who moved to America from southern and eastern European countries. Faced more discrimination due to more significant cultural differences.
What are New Immigrants?
The political party formed by Teddy Roosevelt when he decided to run for president against Taft.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
This event shifted public opinion to favor going to war with Spain.
What is the explosion of the USS Maine?
This group of Black soldiers fought on horseback on the Western frontier during the Indian Wars.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
The federal government provided subsidies and land to help build this important factor in westward expansion.
Industrialist who created company towns.
Who is George Pullman?
This act was designed to strengthen the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and break up the trusts and monopolies that controlled the economy.
In this document, which was intercepted by the USA, Germany attempted to form an alliance with Mexico during WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
System of appointing loyal supporters or people who you owe a favor, rather than qualified officials, to public positions.
What is political patronage?
Granted 160 acres of land in the west to anyone who promised to farm and maintain it.
What is the Homestead Act?
Term for the time period of American history where it seemed like there was prosperity, but there was also a ton of corruption and cruelty.
What is The Gilded Age?
This Supreme Court Case upheld segregation using the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This practice involved stretching the truth and ignoring the facts in order to create scandalous stories and sell penny papers (tabloids).
What is Yellow Journalism?
Two men convicted in a controversial murder trial after WWI. Many felt that the trial was unfair and that the men were convicted because of their communist/anarchist beliefs, not because they were actually guilty.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?