Gilded Age
It accelerate the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land (It accelerated end to the American frontier)
What is Homestead Act?
Wrote "The Jungle" that describe the conditions in the meatpacking industry and lead to creat the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act
What did Upton Sinclair do?
A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is Imperialism?
It was the most serious scandal in the country’s history. It was the drill of the federally navy oil reserves during Harding's presidency.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Herbert Hoover was blamed for the Great Depression and created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Who was the president during the Great Depresion?
The Sand Creek Massacre (18640)
The Knee Massacre (1890-1891)
The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand) (1876)
What are some conflicts with American Indians?
It was founded by W.E.B. DuBois and Ida B. Wells in 1909 and it removed all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.
Who founded the NAACP?
1. Lositania is sunk: killing 128 Americans
2. Zimmerman Telegram: Germany sends a message to Mexico
3. Ties to Great Britain
What are the causes to join WWI?
No government intervention in the economy, including Big Business. It was part of the Harding's Administration to "Return to normalcy"
What is Laissez Faire Economics
Relief. Reform. Recovery. They were created by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What are the 3R's of the New Deal?
Thomas Edison product brought security to workers, created the practice of shift work, increased worker efficiency, and allowed for greater productivity.
Who invented the light bulb and what was an effect of it?
It was led by women and Christian ministers who saw alcoholism as the root of society's problem. (Lead to the 18th amendment: prohibition of alcohol)
What was the Temperance Movement?
1. Reduction of armaments
2. Freedom of the Seas
3. End of Secret Alliances
4. Removal of Trade Barriers
5. Self Determination for Nation-States
6. Creation of League of Nations
What are 6 points of the Wilson's 14 points?
People feared that communist wanted to overthrow the U.S. Government, so thousands of immigrants were arrested and 500 were deported.
What is the Red Scare?
It was a dry season with dust storms in the south central of the United States, due to the misused of land and it lead to people migrating to California.
What was the Dust Bowl?
The desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes. Andrew Carnegie supported the discovery of insulin and the dismantling of nuclear weapons.
What is Philanthropy? Give one example
1. Conservation of natural resources
2. Control of corporations
3. Consumer protection
What are the 3C's? (Square deal)
It mark the end of WWI and the Germans accepted responsibility for the war and the liability to pay financial reparations to the Allies.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
African Americans moving to urban areas in the North escaping racism, sharecropping, and tenant farming in the south in search of better economic opportunities.
What was the Great Migration and what is the reason of it?
High tariffs, stock market speculation, bank failures and the Fed raised interest rates
What are the causes of the Great Depression?
The cattle industry boomed
The annihilation of many American Indian tribes and cultures
Increased debt among farmers, and the closing of the frontier.
What are the effects of the Westward Expansion?
It was the first women's right convention. They created the Declaration of Sentiments that stated "All men and women are created equal"
What was the Seneca Falls Covention?
It rise the Xenophobia and suspicions of immigrants.
The creation of the Immigration Act of 1917. It restricted Immigration from eastern European Nations.
Return to isolationism.
What are the effects of the WWI?
Higher Reproduction of those with strong, favorable traits vs. Undesirable traits. It was a way to get rid of racial and biological “mistakes”
What is Eugenics?
It created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, authorized loans to large businesses that suffered losses, and tried to creat new jobs out of public works projects
What was the Hoover Administration?