Settling the West
1862 legislation giving free land to settlers
What is the Homestead Act?
The nickname used to describe wealthy (and often ruthless) corporate owners who controlled much of the US economy during the Gilded Age.
What is a "Robber Baron"?
Series of treaties and agreements that resulted in nations joining each other on one side or the other of the war in Europe
What is the Alliance System?
18th Amendment, illegal to sell or distribute liquor
What is Prohibition?
name given to shantytowns in the early years of the Great Depression
What is a Hooverville?
Political movement appealing to ordinary people who feel ignored by the establishment
What is "Populism"?
investigative journalist who uncovered corruption or health issues
What is a Muckraker?
Woodrow Wilson's plans to establish world peace after WW1, mostly ignored in the actual peace settlements.
What are the "Fourteen Points"?
Scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
series of droughts and dust storms that devastated the agriculture of the Great Plains
What is the Dust Bowl?
worker's organization in the 1880's, fairly open in their membership
Who were the Knights of Labor?
1913, allowed for the direct election of US senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
US policy to ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting and extending U.S. commercial and financial interests there
What is "Dollar Diplomacy"?
1920's cultural flowering of African-American arts, music, and literature
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
FDR's plan for new agencies to resolve the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
The official political position of the Populist Party in the 1892 elections.
What was the Omaha Platform?
first legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress (1890) to curb concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
German diplomatic message inviting Mexico to attack the USA in WW1.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
1925 legal case regarding the teaching of the theory of evolution
What was the "Scopes Trial"?
laws that forced segregated facilities for African-Americans such as separate schools and train cars
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Informal arrangement between the US and Japan regarding immigration issues in the 1900's.
What was the "1907 Gentleman's Agreement"?
The idea that the wealthy have a duty to use their wealth to benefit the rest of society.
What is the "Gospel of Wealth"?
1919 agreement ending WW1, and setting up the postwar arrangements.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
1928 agreement to outlaw war as a way to settle disputes
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
What is margin buying