Gilded Age
This is the name of the run down, disgusting apartments that immigrants lived in.
tenements
These were journalists that exposed the corruption and ills of the Gilded Age.
muckrakers
This cause of US Entry to WWI was the declaration that Germany would sink any ship around England.
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
This Amendment granted women’s suffrage.
19th Amendment
This cause of the great depression forced many people to lose their bank deposits and savings.
bank failures
This was passed to allow for anyone to claim 160 acres of free land from the government as long as they improved that land.
Homestead Act
This book, written by Upton Sinclair, exposed working conditions of Chicago’s meat packing industry, leading to these two pieces of legislation.
The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
This US President at the end of WWI drafted this plan for world peace, ending future conflicts.
Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
Many Americans were trying to get rich quick by speculating in this
Stock Market
This New Deal program, that is still in place today, insures peoples bank deposits so that the bank cannot lose them.
FDIC
Because of industrialization, many Americans were moving from ____________ to ___________.
rural to urban
This act ended the corruption of the business industry, breaking up monopolies.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This event, on May 7, 1915, killed 128 Americans and shifted Americans attitudes towards WWI.
Sinking of the Lusitania
This movement of African Americans from the south to the north was done in the 20’s for these two reasons.
The Great Migration
racism in the south and find jobs in the north
This New Deal program was used to alleviate the issues of unemployment, disability, and retirement insurance
Social Security Act
How did the Government attempt to assimilate natives during the Gilded Age?
boarding schools, teach them English, Christianity, and break up tribal lands (Dawes Act)
This act was put in place to bring down shipping costs and help regulate the railroads.
Interstate Commerce Act
This type of warfare during WWI led to this on both sides.
Trench Warfare
stalemate
Women during the 20’s adopted this name for having shorter hair, wearing skimpier clothing, and partying more in public.
Flappers
Overproduction and underconsumption led to businesses to do this.
lay off works and close
A company taking sole control over one product is called this, and these people were in charge of these companies.
monopoly
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
This muckraker exposed tenement life by publishing a book called this.
Jacob Riis
This act was put in place by the federal government that limited your freedom of speech during wartime.
Henry Ford created this, to speed up production and make it more efficient.
assembly line
The Dust Bowl region of the US was effected heavily by these two causes.
drought and overfarming
This is the name of people who hated immigrants at the time, also answer why they disliked them so much.
nativists
taking jobs
These were the major effects of prohibition, making it worse when the govt. banned alcohol.
rise in organized crime, bootlegger, speakeasies
This man and his wife were assassinated, sparking the start of WWI.
ArchDuke Franz Ferdianand
This revival of African American culture started in the 20’s in NYC, in a neighborhood of the same name.
Harlem Renaissance
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA) were put in place to fix which GD issue, the biggest issue facing citizens.
unemployment (25%)
This process was used to boost the railroad industry, build skyscrapers, and help build bridges.
Bessemer Process
These two amendments implemented a federal income tax and direct election of US Senators, arranged.
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
This ship was calmly sitting in the Havanna Harbor when the Spanish sank it starting the SPAM War…or so the newspapers said.
USS Maine
Many Americans in the 20’s used this new payment method, buying these types of products, mostly for the home.
credit or installment plans
The SEC or Securities and Exchange Commission, is used today to help regulate this financial institution.
Stock Market
Child Labor, workers hours, and low pay are just a few things that these groups tried to fix during Industrialization.
Labor Unions
This woman wanted to help immigrants and created the Hull House in Chicago, a settlement house.
Jane Addams
What is T. Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy and it was used for acquiring this land, used mainly for travel.
Panama Canal
These two Italian immigrants were wrongfully convicted of murder and executed because they were anarchists.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Herbert Hoover and FDR had very different ideas on how to help the people during the GD, what were those two ideas?
Hoover believed it was not the govt's responsibility to help the people where as FDR believe the govt had a responsibility to help
These groups controlled inner city politics, doing what to gain control, and who was the most popular.
Political machines
manipulate and bribe voters
Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall
People like W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington fought for this, and had these differing beliefs.
one wanted equality now and the other gradually
After the SPAM War, the US acquires these three territories, and how did they benefit the US
Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico
military bases, trade, resources
This fear of another ideology infiltrating the US popped up in the 20’s, leading to George M. Palmer to conduct raids to do what to many Americans.
Red Scare
arrest and deport suspected Communists
This plan by FDR would have raised the number of Supreme Court Justices from 9 to 15, also violated this in the Constitution.
FDR's Court Packing Scheme
This is the term used to describe the act of giving away millions of dollars, mostly for educational purposes.
philanthropy
libraries and universities
During the Progressive Era, T. Roosevelt handpicked Taft, ended up hating him and creating this Political Party to go against him in the next election, allowing who to win.
Bull Moose Party
Democrat Woodrow Wilson
Henry Cabot Lodge, and many other Senators, opposed the Treaty of Versailles for this reason.
US did not want to join the League of Nations in fear of being pulled into another war
This was known as the trial of the century, a school teacher was in trouble for teaching a more modern idea and not a fundamentalist idea.
How did groups like the American Liberty League differ from what FDR was doing with the New Deal?
The League, like Hoover, believed that it was people's responsibility to fix their issues rather than the governments responsibility.