Early America
He was a precedent setting president. All others after him would only serve two, four year terms. (Minus FDR.)
What was Washington?
This belief, coined in 1845, held that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Mark Twain is credited with coining this term to describe the era of industrial growth and wealth that masked serious social problems.
What was the Gilded Age?
This amendment, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This illegal, underground bar was a common feature of the decade, resulting from the 18th Amendment.
What are speakeasies?
This day, October 29, 1929, is widely recognized as the start of the Great Depression due to the massive drop in stock prices.
What is Black Tuesday?
He pushed for assuming state debts and the creation of a national bank under the Washington Administration.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, this executive order declared all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This business practice involves controlling all aspects of production, from raw materials to distribution, a strategy used by Andrew Carnegie in the steel industry.
What is Vertical Integration?
This Amendment, passed under President Woodrow Wilson allowed for the collection of federal income taxes.
What is the 16th Amendment?
During the 20's the US experienced the "Red Scare". A widespread fear of this.
What is Communism?
This group of WWI veterans marched on Washington D.C. in 1932 to demand early payment of a bonus promised to them.
What was the Bonus Army?
Jefferson, in an effort to gain New Orleans and control of the Mississippi River, signed a treaty with Napoleon, granting the US control over this region.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
The strategy used by Union Generals Grant and Sherman to destroy the South's resources, infrastructure, and civilian morale was known by this name.
What is Total War?
Considered this type of journalist, Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, exposing the deplorable living conditions in New York City's tenements.
What is a Muckraker?
This former U.S. President was nicknamed the "Trust Buster" for his use of the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up harmful monopolies.
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
This cultural, social, and artistic explosion in the 1920s saw a renewed sense of pride and identity among African Americans, with figures like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform were the key principles of this response to the Great Depression.
What was the New Deal?
Henry Clay's "Corrupt Bargain" with John Q. Adams led to the frustration of this an who would become president after JQA.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The U.S. victory in this war led to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which granted the U.S. vast territory including California and New Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Unlike the Knights of Labor, this powerful labor union formed in 1886 and focused on organizing skilled workers into national unions for specific crafts.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" influenced the creation of a few acts and agencies. Name one.
What was the Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, The Food and Drug Administration?
This young woman, characterized by short skirts, bobbed hair, and a carefree attitude, symbolized the changing morals and social norms of the decade.
What is a flapper?
This New Deal program, which still exists today, provides old-age insurance, unemployment compensation, and aid for dependent mothers and children.
What is Social Security?
It was this "doctrine" that demanded of European nations to halt efforts at colonizing in the western hemisphere and would lead to policies such as the "Roosevelt Corollary", and later the "Truman Doctrine".
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
The passage of this 1862 Act encouraged Westward migration by offering 160 acres of public land to any person who would farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The government passed this Act in 1890 to prevent the formation of monopolies and restraint of trade, though it was initially used more often against labor unions than against trusts.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
What was the Temperance Movement?
This group saw a resurgence during the 20's. They were now expanding groups they disliked.
Who were the KKK?
This New Deal Agency hired young men to work on environmental and conservation projects such as replanting forests.
What was the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)?