Unit 1:The West/Gilded Age
This system replaced current government employees with people who supported the newly elected official
What is the Spoils System
African American leader who promoted immediate equality
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
List the four totalitarian leaders before WW2 and their country
Japan - Tojo, Germany - Hitler, USSR - Stalin, Italy - Mussolini
This was the movement of African Americans from the South to urban areas in the North
What is the Great Migration?
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 reached an all time low on this day
What is Black Tuesday?
The four major industrial capitalists from the Gilded Age with their associated industry.
Who is Rockefeller- oil, Vanderbilt- railroads, Carnegie- steel, J.P. Morgan- finance
Term given to corrupt business leaders who used monopolies and treated workers poorly.
What are robber barons?
The four territories that the U.S. gained from the Spanish-American War.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, and Cuba?
This act strengthened the 18th amendment by defining an alcoholic beverage
What is the Volstead Act?
This contributed to the economic and environmental disaster known as the Dust Bowl.
What is soil erosion, drought, or over-cultivation?
This process created steel cheaper and quicker
What is the Bessemer Process?
The Grange Movement eventually grew into this political party.
What is the Populist Party?
The name given to Hitler’s plan to exterminate the Jewish population in Germany.
What is The Final Solution?
The names of the two immigrants who were arrested and sentenced to death for murder. It showed how some Americans feared immigrants.
Who is Sacco and Vanzetti?
This was created during the Hoover Administration to help struggling businesses
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
Name for people who came from the North to seek economic opportunities in the South during the Reconstruction Era
What is a carpetbagger?
Teddy Roosevelt's goals for America was called ________ Deal
What is the Square Deal?
General Pershing led this force as a stand alone unit during WW1
What is the American Expeditionary Force?
The women's suffrage movement split into these two groups which weakened the movement as a whole
The National Women's Suffrage Association and the American Women's Suffrage Association
The author who wrote The Grapes of Wrath, about a family of farmers who lost their farm and moved to find work
Who is John Steinbeck?
Another name for Custer's Last Stand
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This Christian movement said people had a moral duty to help solve society's problems and to help people who are struggling.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
This was used by the Germans to send messages secretly.
What is the enigma code?
The belief that one's home land needs to be protected against immigrants.
What is nativism?
The term used to describe the forced or voluntary return of immigrants to their home country during the Great Depression
What is repatriation?