People/Groups
KKK, what is it and what does the acronym stand for?
Founded after the Civil War, they are the oldest white-supremacist hate group in America.
Ku Klux Klan
Suffrage
Enabling someone or some group to receive voting rights. In this time period, suffrage is most closely connected to the women's suffrage movement.
Name one of the nicknames for WWI.
The Great War, The War to End All Wars.
Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
Describe 3 ways in that women changed in the 1920s? What were these women called?
Flappers! Ways that women changed: Shorter dresses/more revealing clothing, smoking and drinking, going to bars, short hair, flirtatious, dancing to jazz
Who was the President of the United States during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson (Wilson's 14 Points)
Gilded Age
Period in US history from 1870s-1890s. Characterized by incredible increase in wealth, but also incredible inequality and poor conditions for lower classes.
What is the nickname for the period when African American art, literature, music and culture became more popular?
The Harlem Renaissance
Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution made the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol illegal?
18th Amendment
Explain 2 examples of how new technology changed warfare in WWI
Barbed wire, machine guns, poison gas, artillery. These factors changed the war by making it longer, more costly, stagnant, and more deadly.
What was the term given to the group of journalists, writers and photographers that exposed corruption and conditions during the Progressive Era?
Muckrakers
Social Darwinism
The idea that Darwin's theories of evolution could be translated into people and societies. Survival of the fittest of civilizations in which western societies were more evolved and therefor could morally steal from supposedly less evolved societies.
Explain 3 reasons why the U.S. got involved in Imperialism.
-Need for new markets to sell products made (Industrial Revolution)
-Military need for ports (Navy needed to be a world power)
-Spread Religion/Missionaries
-Social Darwinism/White Man's Burden
-Closing of the Frontier/Continuation of Manifest Destiny
-Expand Influence in Western Hemisphere (Monroe Doctrine) and around the world
List 3 ways that America acquired new territories during Imperialism AND and example of a territory acquired each way.
Purchase (Alaska, Panama Canal Zone, Philippines)
Annex (Texas, Hawaii, Midway Islands, Wake Island, American Samoa)
War (Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, Gitmo on Cuba)
Give 3 examples of changes in America that occurred as a result of the industrial revolution
Urbanization, rise of factories and change in methods of production, increase in immigrant labor, increasing of imperialism, industrial job availability leads to Great Migration
Name the person that became a hero in the 1920s for being the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic (NYC to Paris). A devout racist and social darwinist, he later argued for the US to avoid conflict with the Nazis.
Charles Lindbergh
Temperance
Name the 3 major countries that were part of the Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
What is the term for a government's strategy for dealing with other countries?
Foreign Policy
Give 2 examples of changes that were made during the Progressive Era. How were these changes made?
Regulation of meatpacking (The Jungle), Better conditions in tenement housing and poor areas in cities (How the Other Half Lives), workers safety regulations (Triangle Shirtwaist Fire), better working conditions, pay, and benefits (unionization)
Who's the photojournalist that exposed the living/working conditions of people in poverty in their book "How the Other Half Lives"?
Jacob Riis
Assimilate
To change and become more like something else. In this case, immigrants (and other non-white groups) assimilated into white American culture. This was done both by immigrants themselves and by force at the hand of the US government. While assimilation is considered harmful today, it was seen as progressive in many circles at the time.
What is the name for the government system in which all properties/businesses are owned by the government & people compensated based on their need?
Why was America so afraid of this system after WWI?
Communism
After Russian gov't fell to Communist Revolution, many feared immigrants would bring those ideas to America and threaten our democracy
List 2 events that led the United States to join WWI.
American ships/people getting attacked in the Atlantic (Lusitania), the Zimmerman Telegram
Explain how imperialism was a change to American foreign policy
Before the imperial era, America was largely isolationist, focused on continental expansion. This changed with imperialism, which led America to become wealthier but also commit crimes and come into conflict with other colonial and non-colonial powers.