-Immigrants that arrived prior to 1880
-Protestant
-Wanted to assimilate
What is Old Immigrant?
100
System allowing ordinary citizens to propose laws overlooked or ignored by the state legislature
What is Initiative?
100
Political system that emphasizes intense nationalism and military expansionism
What is Fascism?
100
Attacks on suspected communists by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, and his associates
What is McCarthyism?
100
Upton Sinclair’s radical best-selling book
What is The Jungle?
200
-Between 1880-1910
-Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox Christian
-Lived in tenements in cities
What is New Immigrants?
200
This process allows voters to demand by petition that a certain law enacted by the legislature be placed on the ballot for approval or rejection at election time.
What is Referendum?
200
Economic and political philosophy; no private property; government control of everything.
What is Communism?
200
President Lyndon Johnson’s program to reduce poverty and racial injustice, and promote a better quality of life in the US. Included programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, HUD, Head Start
What is the Great Society?
200
State laws that established maximum rates for shipping freight on the railroads and for storing grain
What is Granger Laws?
300
The period in the late 1800s noted for political corruption, great financial risk in business, and the wealthy lifestyles of industrialists and bankers
What is the Gilded Age?
300
The recall procedure allows voters to remove a public official from office before his or her term expires
What is Recall?
300
Pride in, and devotion to, one’s country
What is Nationalism?
300
The practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for aggression
What is Brinkmanship?
300
Belief that America should not be involved in the world’s problems, wanted to solve problems in the U.S. without taking part in foreign wars
What is Isolationist?
400
Attempt to create a fake railroad construction company to steal millions of federal tax dollars earmarked for the transcontinental railroad
What is Credit Mobilier?
400
Investigative journalists who attempted to stir-up public feelings against corrupt businesses and government officials
What is Muckrakers?
400
Prejudice or discrimination against Jews.
What is Anti-Semitism?
400
Economic system in which private businesses and individuals control the means of production
What is Capitalist?
400
Belief that America was obligated to be the “world’s policeman.”
What is Interventionist?
500
Political “machine” organization that fixed elections and bought votes from immigrants and the working poor. Headquarter in New York City and controlled by William “Boss” Tweed
What is Tammany Hall?
500
Growth of African-American literature, political ideas, and music (Jazz) during the 1920s
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
500
The role the United States played during WWII caused integration with the economies, politics, cultures, and societies of other nations
What is Globalization?
500
Images and information created to manipulate public
What is Propaganda?
500
1919 Conference in France to determine the fate of Germany, post-WWI.