Industrialization
This act allowed families to claim 160 acres of land in the west for a small fee if they agreed to live and farm the land for 5 years
The Homestead Act
This movement tied together Christian salvation and doing good works for the poor
The Social Gospel Movement
the practice of extending a nation’s power by gaining territories for a colonial empire
Imperialism
The 19th Amendment did what?
Gave women the right to vote
Term for shack-towns and homeless encampments during the Great Depression
Hoovervilles
An informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election
The Compromise of 1877
Muckrakers
Big Stick Diplomacy
Movement that had novelists, poets, and artists celebrating African American culture
the Harlem Renaissance
List 3 causes of the Great Depression.
bank failures, buying on margin, stock market crash, high tariffs, overtaxation on credit, unemployment
the Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution; became known as “separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
the name for when a corporation gained control over an entire industry
Monopoly
when World War I broke out the U.S. decided it would remain _________
neutral
Describe the assembly line process
the manufacturing process where the unfinished product moves in a direct line from workstation to workstation, with parts added in sequence until the final product is completed
These organizations (Social Security and Tennessee Valley Authority) were apart of Roosevelt’s _______________
New Deal
Americanization
the terrible conditions for packaging and handing of food led to the creation of the following act
Pure Food and Drug Act or Meat Inspection Act
they were used as defenses against attacks, but they became a fundamental part of the strategy with the influx of modern weapons of war like gas and machine guns
trench warfare
What was the first radio show called and what music did it play?
Grand Ole Opry and country music
The belief people should be self-reliant and not rely on the government for help
rugged individualism
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton convinced this group of people to migrate from the South to the West
Exodusters
a organization of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
a Union
these two events prompted the U.S. to join the war
the Zimmerman Telegram and unrestricted submarine warfare
Name two famous celebrities of the 1920s and their accomplishments
Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Ford
What were Roosevelt’s 3 R’s?
relief, recovery, reform