Gilded Age
This particular industry was a major recipient of government funding during its boom-time of building in the 1870s.
What are railroads
President of the US in the early 1900s most known for Progressive actions
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
The provision of the Treaty of Versailles that President Wilson was most adamant about following precisely.
What is the League of Nations
US Presidents who were most famous for saying, "The business of America is business!"
Who is Calvin Coolidge and/or Warren Harding
October 29th 1929 became known as this day due to the massive sell-off of stocks and no one willing to buy them.
What is "Black Tuesday"
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the controversial precedent of "separate but equal" in the US
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
This expansion of the Monroe Doctrine to now include American military influence into the Caribbean and Central/South America became known as this.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary
This document exposed a German plot to enlist Mexico into an alliance with Germany in a war against the US
What is the Zimmerman Telegram
An "unintended effect" of the passage of this Constitutional Amendment was giving organized crime a ways and means of gaining wealth and power.
What is Prohibition
The demand for the payment of money owed to veterans of the Great War led to a march on Washington DC in 1932 by this group
What is the Bonus Expeditionary Force
"Competition is a law of nature...if we do not like survival of the fittest, we have only one possible alternative: survival of the unfittest." This quote is an example of which philosophy?
What is Social Darwinism
When it was passed in 1890, this law actually had very little impact in accomplishing its chief goal: that is, gov't regulation over the power of large corporations.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
These individuals in the Senate were "dead-set against" any and all passage of the Treaty of Versailles. They were nicknamed this.
Who are the irreconcilables
Fear of Communism and radicalism led to a series of government "raids" authorized by this Attorney General in 1920
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer
This law created during the First New Deal sought to lessen the effects of the Depression by paying farmers to cut production, and in some cases destroy their own crops.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
"From the beginning of the settlement of America, the frontier regions have exercised a steady influence toward democracy...American democracy is fundamentally the outcome of the experience of the American people in dealing with the West." This belief has become known as what?
What is The Turner Thesis
The eight hour workday became a prominent demand by organized labor leaders in the Omaha Platform of this upstart political party in the 1892 election.
What is the Populist Party
Freedom for all nations to travel over these became a primary focus of the Wilson Administration in the years leading up to American involvement in World War I
What are the seas/oceans
This movement in the 1920s developed into an outpouring of African-American artistic and literary creativity.
What is the Harlem Renaissance
The crisis in this industry was probably the most pressing that Roosevelt faced as he entered office in 1933. He responded by declaring a "holiday" to prevent more from closing.
What is the banking industry
"You shall not crucify mankind upon a Cross of Gold!" This quote was given by which Democratic-Populist candidate in the 1896 election?
Who is William Jennings Bryant
"Control of the seas was the key to the US world domination!" This quote would most likely be attributed to this Naval Captain during the early 1900s.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan
Wilson's statement to Henry Cabot Lodge and the "reservationists" in the Senate over this particular Article in the Versailles treaty stated that any revisions to the US participation in the League of Nations would put the world in jeopardy for another world war.
What is Article X
The trial, conviction, and eventual execution of these two supposed "immigrant radicals" demonstrated the extent of the first Red Scare in the 1920s
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti
Roosevelt's economic policies that he utilized during the Great Depression were mainly the ideas of this British economist.
Who is John Maynard Keynes