IDK
founded the NAACP, a civil rights group that fought for the legal rights of African Americans.
W. E. B. DuBois
fought for women’s suffrage and started the Settlement House movement in the U.S. to help assimilate immigrants.
Jane Addams
Used Philanthropy to improve society through donations to education and the arts.
Andrew Carnegie
total control of an industry by one company; restricted by laws passed to protect competitors and regulate consumer prices.
Monopoly
wrote The Jungle, which resulted in government regulation of food products.
Upton Sinclair
passed to protect consumer health and safety; resulted from the efforts of muckrakers, like Upton Sinclair.
Pure Food and Drug Act
use of assembly-line production to efficiently produce affordable goods and automobiles; popularized by Henry Ford.
Mass manufacturing
rapid growth of cities caused by the migration of people in search of industrial jobs; caused sanitation problems.
Urbanization
increased women’s political power by granting them suffrage, or the right to vote; result of suffrage movement protests.
Nineteenth Amendment
a policy in which the government has a limited role in the economy; one of five democratic values as observed by Tocqueville.
Laissez-faire
movement of African Americans to northern states in search of economic opportunities and freedom from Jim Crow laws.
Great Migration
(AEF) soldiers drafted through the Selective Service Act and commanded by General John J. Pershing; led the counterattack on the western front.
American Expeditionary Forces
American Indians were forced to adopt U.S. culture through the use of boarding schools, land ownership, and farming.
Assimilation
prohibited sale of alcohol; supported by women; aimed to reduce crime and health problems; resulted in speakeasies and crime.
Eighteenth Amendment
viewed immigrants as competition for jobs; wanted restrictions placed on immigration; encouraged assimilation.
Nativists
the threat of U.S. intervention in Western Hemisphere affairs; part of Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Big Stick policy
passed to limit rights gained by African Americans in the 13th (freedom), 14th (citizenship), and 15th (male suffrage) Amendments.
Jim Crow laws
gain in access to natural resources and overseas markets, expansion in trade.
Reasons for Expansionism
passed to prevent immigrants from taking Americans’ jobs out West.
Chinese Exclusion Act
controlled political parties; traded jobs/community improvements for votes; justified corruption by helping poor/immigrants.
Political machines
people accused of crimes must be read their rights (Miranda v. Arizona); eminent domain.
5th Amendment
U.S. citizens participate in government when they vote in elections, serve on juries, and stay informed on current events.
Civic responsibilities
U.S. citizens were encouraged to buy bonds to finance the war; women and African Americans worked in war industries.
World War I Homefront
initiative, referendum, recall; increased citizen participation in democracy; ensured elected officials were held accountable.
State reforms
U.S. was established as a world power, gained access to new markets, and acquired new territories in the Pacific (Guam and Philippines) and the Caribbean (Puerto Rico)
Effects of Spanish-American War
“out of many, one”; symbolizes the unity of the thirteen original colonies that joined together to form a single nation.
E Pluribus Unum
ideas to prevent future global conflicts; League of Nations, freedom of the seas, establishment of Poland
Wilson’s Fourteen Point
intended to weaken Germany after World War I; created the League of Nations; rejected by U.S.
Treaty of Versailles
limit the power of the federal government through separation of powers and checks and balances.
Principles of the Constitution
post-World War I U.S. policy supported by Henry Cabot Lodge; caused U.S. to refuse League of Nations membership.
Isolationism