West/Populism
These were two major pull factors bringing migrants into the American West.
What is the Homestead Act and Transcontinental Railroad?
This innovation allowed for Steel to produced efficiently and with strength.
What is the Bessemer Process?
The Progressive Era is known as this.
What is an era of reform?
Journalism that exaggerates or lies in order to push public opinion in a certain direction.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This political party ruled the US during the prosperous 1920s.
What is the Republican Party?
A belief that European-Americans were blessed by God and had the right to conquer the American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A political organization that was corrupt and used immigrants to its advantage.
What is a political machine?
These were investigative journalists.
What is muckrakers?
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Hawaii?
These three key factors created economic growth/ prosperity during the 1920s.
What is low regulation, low taxes, and consumer debt?
This group of people fought the United States federal government in defense of their homelands.
Who are American Indians?
These were problems created by the rapid industrialization and urbanization of the late 19th century.
What is overcrowding, pollution, crime, inequality, and corruption?
These were the key parts of Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal".
What are conservation, corporate control, and consumer protection?
This was the main reason the United States entered WWI on the side of the Allies.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany?
These three factors combined to cause the Great Depression.
What is stock market speculation, Federal Reserve monetary policy, and Hoover's fiscal policy?
This battle was the last major victory for the Sioux over the United States.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
A philosophy established by industrialist Andrew Carnegie that stated that the wealthy had an obligation to donate their wealth to the poor.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
These laws were a result of the public response to the book "The Jungle".
What are the Pure Food and Drug Act (FDA) and the Meat Inspection Act?
These laws were passed during WWI and made it a crime to criticize the government or the war effort.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts
This program was President Franklin Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This law established a reservation system for American Indians.
What is the Dawes Act?
The "new immigrants" shared these characteristics.
What is primarily Catholic and originated from southern and eastern Europe?
An economic arrangement where large businesses in a specific industry come together and agree to keep prices high by avoiding price competition.
What is a Trust?
These were US President Wilson's peace proposals which included the creation of the League of Nations.
What are the 14 Points?
This banking reform played a large role in stopping the banking collapse of the 1930s.
What is the FDIC?