Gilded Age/Progressive Era
The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service, another name for trusts
What is a monopoly
What is the Spanish American War?
A note intercepted by British spies from Germany attempting to convince Mexico to fight against the U.S. in WWI
What is the Zimmerman Telegram
Name for the illegal bars that popped up during the 20s
What are speakeasies?
A series of government programs in response to the Great Depression designed to provide relief, reform, and recovery
What is the New Deal
A term to describe an economic policy that has no government regulation or is “hands off”
What is laissez faire
This American warship mysteriously exploded in the Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, sparking the beginning of the Spanish-American War
What is the USS Maine
President Wilson’s speech detailing the aims of American intervention and a vision of the world after WWI
What is the Fourteen Points
This amendment gave women sufferage
What is the 19th amendment?
The name given to October 29, 1929 - the day the stock market crashed
What is Black Tuesday
Two sides of the same coin- capitalists and businessmen of the Gilded Age
Who are Robber barons and Captains of Industry
Name a president and the name/ nickname for their international diplomatic stance.
Dollar Diplomacy- Wilson/ Taft
Roosevelt- Roosevelt Corollary
This treaty ended WWI; established the League of Nations; divided the defeated nations into smaller ones; and held Germany morally and economically responsible for the war
What is the Treaty of Versailles
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
An area of land in the Midwestern U.S. that experience extreme drought, dust storms, and crop failure throughout the 1930s
What is the Dust Bowl
Taken from Origin of the Species, this concept applied Darwin's theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest to society; held that poor people were poor because they were inferior and that the government should not interfere with "evolution"
What is Social Darwinism
Name for the waterway in Latin America that was bought by the U.S. and was important economically.
This 1918 act prohibited statements against the government and statements advocating for interfering with the war effort.
What is the Sedition Act/ Espionage Act
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
What is court-packing?
Who is Upton Sinclair?
From a poem written by Rudyard Kipling, this concept justified U.S. imperialism by claiming that it was the responsibility of "civilized" nations to uplift inferior peoples - particularly in the Philippines.
What is the White Man's Burden
Nickname for WW1
This event occurred in 1925 after a biology teacher taught Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom, violating Tennessee law; became a national spectacle seen as a "duel to the death" between science and Christianity
What is the Scopes Trial
This 1935 act provided unemployment and retirement benefits to U.S. citizens for the first time in U.S. history
What is the Social Security Act