Amendments etc.
This landmark amendment granted African Americans citizenship, thus overturning the Dred Scott decision and the Three-fifths compromise
Fourteenth Amendment
Races would be allowed to be separated if they both received equal accommodations
Separate But Equal doctrine
Organization of professional politicians that dominated government in many American cities
Urban Political Machines
Both environmental movements responded to the wanton exploitation of western forests, wildlife, and scenic area
Preservationists/ Conservationists
Young women in the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup, dancing to jazz, and flaunting a liberated lifestyle
flappers
Ratified in 1870, this amendment stated that male voting rights could not be denied based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
Fifteenth Amendment
The belief that there is a natural evolutionary process bu which the fittest will survive and prosper
social Darwinism
imperialism
The policy of extending a nation's power through military conquest, economic domination, and/or annexation
The wave of anticommunist hysteria that swept across the United States after WWI
Red Scare
A legislative response to the economic crisis caused by the Great Depression
New Deal
Time period when President Hays removed the last remaining federal troops from the South
end of Reconstruction
View advanced by Andrew Carnegie that the wealthy have a moral obligation to help the less fortunate and improve society
gospel of wealth
A third party that emerged during the early 1890s
Populist party
The National Origins Act of 1924 established quotas that limited immigration to two percent of a country's population in the United States at the time of 1890 census
Immigration Quotas
A prolonged period of economic and political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union
Cold War
White southern political leaders who claimed to "redeem" the South from Republican domination
redeemers
Late nineteenth century reform movement based on the belief that Christians have a moral responsibility to actively confront poverty and other social problems
Social Gospel
Progressive Era journalists who exposed illegal business practices, social injustices, and corrupt urban political bosses
Muckrackers
The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the Northeast and Midwest
The Great Migration
America's Cold War strategy of blocking the expansion of Soviet influence
Containment
Policy pursued by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to "Americanize" Native American children
forced assimilation
The massive wave of people from the Southern and Eastern, Europe who came to America between 1890 and 1924.
New immigrants
Predominantly well-educated, middle class reformers who lived in urban areas
Progressives
A flowering of African American artists, writers, and intellects during the 1920s
Harlem Renaissance
A policy advocated by President Nixon and his national security advisor Henry Kissinger to relax tensions between the United States and Soviet Union
Detente