Gilded age
federal land grant allowed citizens 21 and head of their family to claim 160 acres of land in west as long as they improved the land.
what is the Homestead Act?
A Journalist who worked to expose abuses in politics and society.
What is a Muckraker?
The U.S. would not be in any conflict with other countries.
What is Isolationism?
October 29th, 1929, The stock market crashed putting American economy into the Great Depression
what is Black Tuesday?
Years of a sustained drought
What is the Dust Bowl?
When gold was discovered in Alaska, many people traveled through Washington to Alaska.
What is the Klondike Gold Rush?
Worked to end corruption in government, and correct evils of businesses.
What is the Progressive Era?
Treaty of Paris was signed in 1898.
What was an effect of the Spanish American War?
Flew the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Tariffs, Stock Market Speculation, Bank Failures, and, The Monetary Policy of Federal Reserve System.
What are the causes of the Great Depression?
Sioux, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa and Crow
What are the major American Indians tribes of the great plains?
A social movement led by protestant clergy men.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
Cuban Revolution, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, and Yellow Journalism
18th Amendment banned alcohol. Then repealed by the 21st Amendment.
What is Prohibition?
Tennessee Valley Authority, Civilian Conservation Corps, Civil Works Administration, Public Works Administration.
What are the effects of the Great Depression?
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan
Who are the Main Entrepreneurs?
Lobbying, Nonviolent Protesting, and Litigation
How to participate in the Democratic Process?
Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination.
What situation's caused World War 1?
Opposed Alcohol, Flappers, Teaching of evolution.
Created Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Tried creating new jobs out of Public Works Projects, and created Hoovervilles.
What is the Hoover Administration?
Lynching, Segregation (Plessy .vs. Ferguson), Race Riots (Atlanta, Tulsa, and Longview), Poll Taxes, Literacy tests, and Grandfather Clauses
What did African American's face throughout the U.S?
Tariff Reform, Banking Reform, and Trust-Busting
What is Wilson's New Freedom Program?
War revenue Act of 1917, War bonds will be used to help fund the American War effort by reducing the nation's debt.
what are the Economic effects of World War 1
"Survival of the fittest"
What is Social Darwinism?
Created the New Deal to help pull the economy out of the Great Depression.
What is Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration?