Gilded Age
Small, one-room apartments with no running water; unsanitary
What are tenements?
Journalists who exposed the negative sides of businesses and society
What are muckrakers?
Organization created after WWI to promote international peace
What is the League of Nations?
Women who challenged traditional roles and were known for short hair, short skirts, smoking, drinking, & dancing
What is a flapper?
This production technique sped up production of automoblies at lower costs
What is the assembly line?
Caused an increase in nativism
What is immigration?
Muckraker who's work resulted in the passage of the Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food and Drug Act
Who is Upton Sinclair?
What are the Philippines, Guam, & Puerto Rico?
The fear of communism that took over the USA post WWI
What is the red scare?
What is the Espionage Act?
Connected east USA to West USA in the 1800s
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Progressive Era reform that increased participation in the democratic process
What is the 19th Amendment?
Author who advocated for more economic markets abroad and for a stronger NAVY
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
The mass movement of African Americans during the 1920s to escape discrimination and racism in the south
What is the Great Migration?
Law that allowed the gov't to divide Native American tribal lands & forced 'americanization'
What is the Dawes Act?
Made monopolies illegal
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act
Progressive era reform that gave citizens more control over elected officials
This document added to the Monroe Doctrine stating that the US should be the 'international police power' of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The government going to people's homes and businesses who were suspected of being communist
What are the Palmer Raids?
Specialty trained American soldiers who fought in Europe during WWI
What are the American Expeditionary Forces?
What is a monopoly?
Power of citizens to introduce new legislation
What is initiative?
Two reasons why the United States joined WWI
Famous trial of a biology teacher who was arrested for teaching the concept of evolution in public school
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
What is the Pendleton Act?