Gilded Age & Westward Expansion
This is when small companies join together to form one large company
Trust
These were reporters and writers who exposed corruption and the abuses of big business.
Muckrakers
Advocates of this conflict used the rallying cry, "Remember the Maine!"
The Spanish-American War
This is the fear that Communists were going to take over the U.S. It Included the Palmer Raid, the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, and the rise of nativism
Red Scare
This was the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. Meant as a form of disrespect to the President at the beginning of the Great Depression who many blamed for it.
This was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten iron prior to the open hearth furnace.
Bessemer Process
This was Theodore Roosevelt's political party in the election of 1912. Reminder: Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate.
Bull Moose Party
Purchased in 1867, this future U.S. State was known as "Seward's Folly" and was initially considered a bad purchase.
Alaska
This was a subculture of women popular in the 1920's which was characterized by knee-length skirts, bobbed hair, and indecent behavior such as driving automobiles, drinking alcohol, and smoking cigarettes in public.
Flappers.
This New Deal program provided insurance for the money people put in their bank accounts.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
She was the founder of Hull House, one of the most notable settlement houses in which immigrants were helped with getting better living conditions, dealing with disease, illiteracy, and unemployment.
Jane Addams
These three procedures, increase the American voter's ability to be directly involved in proposed laws and who is in office.
Initiative: Procedure by which citizens can propose a law to be placed on a ballot.
Recall: Procedure by which a public official may be removed from office by popular vote.
Referendum: Procedure by which voters can vote for a proposed initiative on a ballot.
This policy, named after a U.S. president, stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.
Monroe Doctrine
This scandal during Warren G. Harding's presidency involved his Secretary of the Interior leasing U.S. naval oil reserves to private interests in exchange for bribes.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Name for when Roosevelt used the radio to speak directly to the American people and give them hope and confidence.
Fireside Chats
A political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite.
Populism
This author of The Jungle aimed to describe the terrible conditions of the meat packing industry, which eventually led to the passing of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Upton Sinclair
This proposal made by President Wilson after WWI, called for freedom of the seas, ending of secret treaties, a League of Nations, and other peaceful measures.
Wilson's Fourteen Points
This American pilot made the first non-stop flights across the Atlantic.
Charles Lindbergh
This New Deal program gave jobs to young men who would be put to work planting trees, fighting forest fires and building public parks.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
This ensured that appointments to government jobs were based upon merit and qualifications rather than being given as gifts or payment for acts of political corruption.
Pendleton Service Act
Founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, she was instrumental in organizing the Prohibition Party and became the first woman to be represented in the Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol
Frances Willard
This battle led to the surrender of the German army and the end of WWI.
Battle of Argonne Forest
Also known as the "Monkey Trial", this case dealt with the issue of a teacher in Tennessee teaching evolution. It represented the clash between science and fundamentalist religious beliefs.
The Scopes Trial
This novel was written by John Steinbeck and described the lives of "Okies" who set out for California from Oklahoma as a result of the Dust Bowl.
The Grapes of Wrath