None of Your Business
Wealthy businessmen who donated their money to schools and charities.
What are Captains of Industry (Philanthropists)
The 18th amendment and the banning of alcohol
What is Prohibition
The immigration center for those emigrating to the US from Europe
What is Ellis Island
The favoring of native born citizens over foreign born citizens
What is nativism
Journalists who try to uncover the dirty secrets of businesses
Who are muckrakers
An all powerful corporation that controls an industry, reducing competition and raising the prices of goods
What is a monopoly
Immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and Black Americans were all targeted by them
What is the KKK
Crowded and dirty living environments for new immigrants
What are tenements
Forced to live on reservations, attend boarding schools, and give up their culture
Who are the Native Americans
The rebirth of black culture in the United States
What is the Harlem Renaissance
Further industrialization in the US by connecting the East and West Coasts
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
Women who enjoyed new fashions, worked jobs, and exercised their right to vote
Who are Flappers
Restricted immigration from China for 10 years
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
An intense feeling of pride of one's country
What is Nationalism
Highlighting the unsanitary working conditions in meat factories, this book by Upton Sinclair led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act
What is The Jungle
The belief that the government should not interfere with businesses
What is Laissez Faire
2 Italian men are convicted of a murder despite little evidence against them, highlighting the intense feelings of nativism
What is the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
War, famine, and poverty
What are push factors
Many were established to help Teddy Roosevelt achieve his goal of conservation
What are National Parks
Co-founder of the NAACP, he supported a more rapid approach to equality, like an escalator
Who is WEB DuBois
More and more people living in the city than in farms, resulting in a change in US society
What is Urbanization
He taught evolution in schools and would eventually go to court over it
Who is (John) Scopes
The blending of different culture's into one to unify a country
What is the Melting Pot
Senators were worried it would drag the United States into future European wars
What is the League of Nations
Allows for the continuation of slavery through "convict leasing"
What is the 13th amendment