Unit 1
This mid-19th century transportation development created more opportunities for westward expansion.
What are railroads?
Adapted from biology, this time “survival of the fittest” means the rich earned it and the poor deserve it.
What is Social Darwinsm?
This term refers to the taking of territory through military, economic, or diplomatic means.
What is Imperialism?
This economic policy of FDR was marked by big government spending on things like infrastructure and other public works.
What is the New Deal?
This was America’s most important foreign policy goal following WWII.
What is containing communism?
Prior to the 1880s, this was the U.S. government's Indian policy.
What is the reservation system (and/or Indian wars)
This religious-sounding idea states that the rich have a duty to put their money to good use for the benefit of others.
What is the gospel of wealth?
When WWI began, many Americans were this - they wanted the U.S. to stay out of it.
What is isolationist?
Not a good look for Herbert: this term for Great Depression homeless encampments comes from his name.
What are Hoovervilles?
The ability for the government to limit freedoms during wartime was one of the reasons this policy was determined Constitutional during WWII.
What is Japanese Internment?
Unlike his more conservative counterpart, this African American leader advocated immediate equality politically and socially, as well as economically.
Who is W.E.B Dubois?
Thinking business is getting too big? Maybe Congress should pass one of these laws to break them up.
What are Antitrust laws?
Wilson laid out his ideas to prevent another global conflict in this list.
What are the Fourteen points?
Relief, Recovery, and this 3rd R - for example the Glass-Steagall act regulating banks - were all part of the New Deal.
What is Reform?
Paranoid of communist spies in the government? So were Americans during the Red this:
What is scare?
This French term - literally “let it be” - describes an economic idea where the government “lets” the economy “be” by avoiding intervention.
What is laissez-faire?
The “Great Migration” of black Americans from the south to northern cities was caused by this.
What is economic opportunity? / What is to escape racism> / etc.
The Immigration Act of 1924 targeted these groups.
Who are Asians? / Who are Eastern/Southern Europeans?
England really didn’t want war with Germany, so they tried this strategy of giving into hostile demands. It didn’t really work.
What is appeasement?
The Dawes Act was part of a shift in U.S. government Indian policy to this.
These institutions sought to improve the terrible conditions of the working class brought on by the Gilded Age.
What are Settlement houses?
You’re imperialist because you want more geopolitical influence and new markets for American goods. I’m Anti imperialist because of this:
What is it is undemocratic? / What is I’m racist and want to keep America homogeneous? / etc.
After the Roaring 20s, this was one of the factors that causes the Great Depression.
What is the Stock market crash / bank failure / overuse of credit?
The Marshall Plan did this. It wasn’t just to be nice - it was also to support capitalism.
What is give economic aid to Europe?