Business
Economic philosophy that government should interfere as little as possible in a nation's economy.
What is Laissez-faire
The separation or isolation of a race, class or group
What is Segregation
Hostility towards immigrants
What is Nativism
Extreme nationalism marked by aggressive foreign policy
What is Jingoism
The spreading of ideas about an institution or individual for the purpose of influencing opinion
What is Propaganda
Primary demand of workers during the Great Railroad and Homestead Strikes
What is higher wages (more money)
Laws created to separate black and white people in the south
What are Jim Crow Laws
Region of the world most immigrants to America in the Gilded Age came from
What is Europe
Sensational, exaggerated journalism
What is Yellow Journalism
Policy the majority of Americans favored at the beginning of WW1
What is neutrality
The political party that promised to help farmers and workers unions
What is the Populist Party (The People's Party)
The movement of African Americans from the south to northern cities to fill jobs during WW1
What is the Great Migration
Some of the factors that motivated immigrants to leave their homes and come to America
What is: escaping prejudice, poverty and conflict or looking for jobs, freedom and opoortunity
A policy of using financial power to reap international influence
What is Dollar Diplomacy
Fear of a communist revolution in America after WW1
What is the Red Scare
Total control of a type of industry by one person or one company
What is a Monopoly
Black leaders during the Gilded Age
Who is: W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington
The 1882 law that restricted Chinese immigration to the United States
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
A policy that allowed all countries to trade freely with China
What is Open Door Policy
International organization created after WW1 designed to peacefully settle disputes between countries
What is the League of Nations
1890 law that allowed the government to break up big companies and trusts
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Efforts to assimilate Native Americans and destroy their cultures
What is Americanization
Two reasons why the US population tripled between 1860 and 1910
What is better living conditions and increased immigration
Reason the US supported Panama's rebellion against Columbia
Official reason President Wilson said America was joining WW1
What is "to make the world safe for democracy"