Period 6
This promised opportunity through individual effort, but often defended that those who owned it all simply had better "bootstraps" than others.
What was Social Darwinism?
This reform impulse trusted investigation, expertise, and government action, but it was never one single movement. It was a large scale action and belief among settlement workers, journalists, politicians, and moral reformers.
What was Progressivism?
This movement won landmark federal laws by forcing the nation to confront the contradiction between Cold War claims of freedom and segregation at home.
What was the civil rights movement?
There have been many shifts to conservatism and the respective parties that represent that in US history.
This revolution brought by this charasmatic man sought to bring business together with Christianity.
What was the Reagan Revolution?
This President had trouble standing, in fact, he barely stood at all.
Who was FDR?
What was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 (Great Upheaval)
This foreign policy idea turned the Caribbean into "America's Playground." No longer did Europe just have to stay across the pond, those in the pond now belonged to the USA.
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
This strategy did not usually promise to destroy communism where it already existed. Instead, it tried to stop the next domino from falling.
What was containment?
This economic approach argued that cutting taxes and reducing regulation would encourage investment, growth, and eventually broader prosperity. The “eventually” part did a lot of work.
What was supply-side economics (Reaganomics)?
This was the top medicine to cure headaches in the late 1800s and early 1900s!
What is Crack Cocaine?
This organization that ran imagined all others as only existing because of this core class of people. It made visionsfor protecting this core class by any means possible.
What was the Populist Party (People's Party)?
It grew out of wartime labor demand and racial violence in the South, and then transformed certain cities forever.
What was the Great Migration?
"I hate Hollywood!"
A phrase while not spoken by this mad politican, its often associated with him for his targetting of the ever developing social and liberal ideas of California. He only wanted to see the USA protected from all things communal!
Who was Joeseph McCarthy and McCarthyism.
This process connected consumers to cheaper goods and everywhere!
Its heavily debated on if is good or bad, but it sure does make us all a bit closer (economically, atleast).
What is globalization?
After an attempted assasination, and taking a double barrel shotgun shot to the chest, this man stood up, brushed himself off, pulled the speach paper out of his pocket and tossed it, and then proceeded to give the speach.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
This policy claimed to “civilize” barbarians through private property, but it really just split them up, made them submit, and then sent them off to terrible schools.
What was the Dawes Severalty Act?
After the disaster of Hoover's Presidency, the "Great Reformer" hatched up a new plan to get the USA on its feet.
What was the New Deal?
This postwar development came about because of economic boon, highways, mortgages, cars, and true Americanism.
Who needs a city when you can have a..?
What was Suburbia (suburbanization)?
The end of the Cold War.
What was the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
After serving a presidency filled with personal disasters and depression, he left the White House with the famous quote, "There is nothing left to do but drink."
Who was Franklin Pierce?
We often ask this question when assessing those at the top of society during the Gilded Age. Were they legitimate owners or were they all business sociopaths?
What were the Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
Being petrified on internal threats and pro racism, this domestic policy sent certain people's off to do labour.
What was Japanese-American internment?
Well, well, well, looks like someone's tiny little boat just shot at that beautiful American boat. Sounds like the war cabinet has to asemble and all the nuclear warheads must be pointed at Vietnam!
What was Golf of Tonkin Incident?
After the horrors of September 11th, Bush launched this in order to curb outside and inside threats to the USA.
What was the War on Terror?
Nobody even remembers this nation was a colony of the USA for 25 years!
What is Liberia?