Pre-1900
Andrew Carnegie wrote in the "Gospel of Wealth" about the importance of doing this with one's money.
What is giving to public works or charity?
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle led to the passage of amendments to regulate this American industry.
What is the food (meat) industry?
Muckrakers were after this in American society.
What is change/progress/reform?
Brown v. Board established this.
What is integration?
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed for this to happen in regards to the Vietnam conflict.
What is American troops sent to Vietnam?
This movement describes millions of African Americans moving North before 1900 into WW1.
What is the Great Migration?
The Seventeenth Amendment is a victory for Progressives because it changed the US in this way.
What is direct election of senators?
Ida Tarbell wrote of horizontal integration and price-fixing with regards to this company, the largest monopoly in American history (or world history).
What is Standard Oil?
Dwight Eisenhower warned America about the rising cost of this part of the US budget during his Farewell Address. He was clearly correct as it takes up a huge portion of the budget today.
What is the military?
"Star Wars" refers to this actual program.
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
Secretary of State John Hay disregarded "spheres of influence" and set up free trade for all nations in this foreign country.
What is China?
The WCTU fought for this to be outlawed ("Holy Experiment).
What is alcohol?
This president proposed to lower the human cost of industry, regulate the economy at a federal level, and conduct a "Holy Experiment" in America. He also created Moral Diplomacy.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This economic plan was created by a Republican President who wanted to cut taxes on the rich and increase military spending. 3 acceptable answers.
What is Reganomics, What is trickle-down economics, and what is supply-side economics?
This president can be also known for the period of detente and SALT 1.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Following the Spanish-American War, Congress passed the Platt Amendment to assure Americans and Cuba that this would not happen.
What is America annexing Cuba?
The United States does not join this because it is seen as a threat to national sovereignty by Henry Cabot Lodge and those that agreed with him.
What is the League of Nations?
Women gained the right to vote with this amendment and continued to push for equality in other parts of society.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Kennedy chose to set the moon as the end destination of the space race due to this development from the Soviet Union in 1957 (name of what the Soviets sent up into orbit)
What is the Sputnik satellite?
The major issues of this decade included a presidential scandal called this and a hostage crisis called this.
What are Watergate and the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis spoke about the importance of the frontier on American society and argued that Americans should pursue this idea in foreign relations with smaller countries.
What is imperialism?
People like Jane Addams used these, such as Hull House, to teach immigrants "American" ideals like English and baseball.
What are settlement houses?
The lives of immigrants were affected by these who used favors to buy their votes during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Who are political bosses?
These programs were at the center of what Lyndon Johnson called the Great Society (welfare programs)
What were Medicare, Medicaid?
This President used the Camp David Accords, the 1980 boycott of the Moscow games, and the Panama Canal Treaty to emphasize human rights. It was also the main idea of the Helsinki Accords under president Gerald Ford.
Who is Jimmy Carter?