Misc.
“The process of growing industry/manufacturing. (Typically is a change away from farming based societies)”
What is Industrialization?
“~1870 to 1900- a time of rapid economic growth, especially in North and Northwest US”
What is the Gilded Age?
Using the threat of force to advance one's goals/keep peace
What is "Big Stick Diplomacy?"
Progressive president who favored increasing American power on the world stage and fighting corruption at home, used “Big Stick Diplomacy”. Believed all Americans deserved a "Square Deal."
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption.
What are muckrakers?
Economic system that values private ownership and competition in the free market.
What is Capitalism?
When a company has complete control over a product or industry
What is a monopoly?
Yellow Journalism
USS Maine
Cuban Independence Movement
What are the causes for the Spanish American War?
King of steel production in the Gilded Age – Scottish Immigrant who became the model for the rags to riches story and was one of the richest men of the Gilded Age
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Goals of various parts of the Progressive Movement
Improve living and working conditions
Stop political corruption
Improve education
Women’s rights
Temperance/Prohibition
Consumer protections
One of the wealthiest Americans of all time- owned nearly all oil production at one point.
Who is John Rockefeller?
Belief that the "survival of the fittest" should be applied to human society.
What is Social Darwinism?
His assassination led to Theodore Roosevelt becoming president.
Who is William McKinley?
Progressive president was the first Democrat in office for over 10 years and was president during World War One.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Movement supported the belief that people who were born in the US were naturally better than immigrants and deserved more rights
Book that revealed the unsafe/unsanitary conditions of the meat industry- prompted investigations and regulations.
The two terms used to describe industrialists of the Gilded Age
Racist belief and phrase that Americans and Europeans used to justify dominating foreign peoples by claiming they were helping and civilizing those peoples.
President from 1909-1913 the great “Trust Buster”
Helps pass the 16th amendment- Income tax
… And he actually probably did not get stuck in a bathtub…
Who is William Taft
Laws that legally allowed for segregation- separation of people of color and white people
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Belief that Christian values should be applied to social issues in America
What is "Social Gospel?"
First federal law that was meant to target big monopolies and trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The belief that if any Latin American country seems "unstable" then the US has the right to intervene - best describes what term?
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The founders of Communism and Capitalism
Movement to improve society by controlling the breeding of those seen as “unfit”
What is Eugenics?