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This was the ‘trust-buster’ American statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer, who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
Theodore Roosevelt
A period that began in 1919 in which the sale, transportation, and consumption of alcohol was illegal.
Prohibition Era
This was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States of America that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.
The Progressive Era
This was a tactic in which authors would sensationalize stories in order to sell more magazines/newspapers; it has become synonymous with terms such as clickbait and fake news.
yellow journalism
This is an ideology that emerged in Western Europe and North America in the 1870s that argued that the wealthy elite was chosen by nature to guide the human race and that the poor were meant to be used to improve the situation for the wealthy.
Social Darwinism
The period in America from roughly 1870-1900 that was characterized by extreme wealth and influence for the rich, and extreme poverty and hardship for the working class.
The Gilded Age
The policy or practice of extending power and influence through territorial expansion, generally achieved through military force or political/economic manipulation.
Imperialism
A nationwide organized effort in the early 1900s to bring millions of recent immigrants into the American cultural system.
Americanization
This was a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until roughly 1877. Their primary goal was the immediate, complete, and permanent eradication of slavery, without compromise.
Radical Republicans
A party organization that uses incentives such as jobs and money to gain support and votes for candidates they want to win an election.
Political Machines
This Reconstruction era amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime.
13th Amendment
This Reconstruction era amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
15th Amendment
This Reconstruction era amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to the treatment of freedmen following the war.
14th Amendment
An Alliance during WW1 that primarily consisted of France, Great Britain, Russia, and eventually the United States.
The Entente (Allies)
This was an American writer and muckraker that was influential in the uncovering of unsanitary practices in the U.S. meatpacking industry in the early-20th century.
Upton Sinclair
An Alliance during WW1 that primarily consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
The Central Powers
This brought an end to World War 1 and outlined a series of punishments and stipulations that would be imposed upon Germany after the war.
Treaty of Versailles
This act allowed any American (women, men, immigrants, freed slaves) to claim 160 acres of land in the American West for only a small application fee.
Homestead Act of 1862
A plan proposed by president Woodrow Wilson that stressed freedom and rebuilding world economies and societies after World War 1.
The Fourteen Points
This was an act in the late-19th century that attempted to facilitate the assimilation of American Indians into American life by dividing tribal land into private allotments. This significantly contributed toward the destruction of Native culture.
The Dawes Act
A radical nativist party in the mid 1800s that sought to limit the social and political mobility of immigrants.
Know-Nothing Party
This was a landmark decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court that established the constitutional doctrine for racial segregation laws and found that as long as the segregated facilities were “equal in quality,” African-Americans could be served separately from whites (separate but equal).
Plessy vs. Ferguson
This was an article written by Andrew Carnegie which advocated for the use of surplus wealth by successful individuals to help the lower class(es).
The Gospel of Wealth