Period 6 1865-1898
Name given by Mark Twain to post Civil War period, implied hidden problems
Gilded Age
War that brought America Cuba, Puerto Rico, Phillippines
Spanish-American War
President associated with interstate highway system, growth of suburbs, NDEA
Eisenhower
President for most of the 1980s
RONALD WILSON REAGAN
Most famous political machine
Tammany Hall
Jane Addams is associated with this movement (not Progressivism)
Settlement Houses
Name of LBJ's set of domestic programs
Great Society
Epidemic that was mostly ignored by federal government in the 80s
AIDS
first federal law that (was supposed to) break up monopolies
Sherman Anti Trust Act
Government agency meant to persuade Americans to support WWI
What is the Committee on Public Information (CPI)?
Name of Carter's signature foreign policy achievement
Camp David Accords
This president was impeached, but acquitted.
Who is Bill Clinton?
Agricultural group that preceded/helped bring about the Populists
Grange
A US political party that sought to represent the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issue, free coinage of gold and silver, public ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal income tax.
What is the People's Party or the Populists?
Campaign in Vietnam that turned American opinion against the war
Tet Offensive
George W. Bush's legislative response after the 9/11 terror attacks
Patriot Act
Strike against a Carnegie factory, was crushed by Pinkertons
Homestead Strike
Group that opposed American intervention in WW2
America First Committee
Invention that propelled massive demographic shift from North to South and Southwest
Air conditioning
Bill Clinton's free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)