Unit 1
People Participating in Politics
What is populism (popular sovereignty)?
Lands set aside for Native Americans to reside.
What is a Reservation?
Government outlawed the production, sale, consumption and distribution of liquor (alcohol).
What is the 18th Amendment?
Type of journalism that used large headlines, unscrupulously sensational stories, and comics. The reporters often exaggerated their reports to get readers.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Young women in the 1920’s broke away from traditional values. They cut their hair short, wore less clothing, smoked in public, swore, and drank bootleg liquor.
What is a Flapper?
A form of government in which power is divided between the federal government and the state government.
What is Federalism?
Industries that have complete control over production, wages, and prices
What is a Monopoly?
A journalist who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900s
What is a Muckraker?
Author of "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History"
Who is Alfred Mahan?
It means no rules or organization. They do not believe in following or having any government.
What is Anarchy?
A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting
What is a Republic?
Involved injecting air into molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities
What is the Bessemer Steel Process?
African American leader argued that African Americans should seek gradual rights - heavily focused on education and vocational training
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Spain surrendered all claim to Cuba, ceded Puerto Rico and the island of Guam to the United States and sold the Philippines for $20 million dollars.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
African American Culture Music (Jazz and Blues)
Poetry
Art Work
There were various patrons of the arts, both black and white, including the very wealthy A'Lelia Walker who ran an influential salon, the Dark Tower from her home, Countee Cullen (the Romantic poet) and Langston Hughes (playwright and poet). The resulting rise of art and culture in Harlem
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Egalitarianism
Populism
Liberty
Individualism
Laissez-Faire
What are the Concepts of de Tocqueville?
Initiative to move west, that gave an applicant ownership of land, at little or no cost in the West.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
African American leader who helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
What were the MAIN causes of WWI?
Department of the Interior bought oil-rich land from the US Navy and sold the land to private companies for a profit
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Out of many comes one
What is E. Pluribus Unum?
Officially abolished Native American Tribes. Each family was given reservation land as its own private property if……… they adopted this way a life were promised citizenship and the right to vote.(Forced assimilation)
What is the Dawes Act of 1887?
Government Ownership
Graduated Income Tax
Immigration Restrictions
Shorter Work Days
Term Limits for President
Secret Ballot
Unlimited Coinage of Silver
Direct Election of Senators
What is the Populist Party Platform?
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Who was the Triple Alliance?
A Jamaican immigrant who urged African Americans to look within their own culture for dignity and pride.
He set up the Black Star Line Steamship Company to ship African Americans back to Africa.
Who is Marcus Garvey?