Gilded Age
Policy allowing business to operate with little or no government interference
What is Laissez Faire?
the act of removing an official by petetion
What is recall?
What is suffrage?
What is relief?
US policy to stop expansion of Soviet Union and Communism
What is Containment?
Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate
Helped lead settlement house movement, co-founded NAACP, condemned war and poverty
Region of the Great Plains that experience a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages
What is Dust Bowl?
A payment plan that allows customers to make payments at set intervals over a period of time until the total debt is paid
What is installment plans?
What is Muckrakers?
Banned the sale, manufacture, and transport of alcoholic beverages
What is 18th amendment?
Gave women the right to vote
What is 19th amendment?
Depression slum housing areas, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress
What is hoovervilles?
Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the US-dominated West
What is Iron Curtain?
First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. it was initially misused against labor unions
1960 law designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals
What is Pure Food and Drug Act?
The practice of making high-risk investments (usually in the stock market) with borrowed money in hopes of getting a big return
What is speculation?
Created a tax on workers and employers. That money still provides monthly pensions for retired people
What is Social Security Act?
An organization formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
What is United Nations?
A railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and New York. He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads safer and more economical
What is Vanderbilt?
Candidates of the 1912 election
Woodrow Wilson, William Taft, & Theodore Roosevelt
African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life during the Harlem Renaissance
What is Langston Hughes?
Put jobless to work building infrastructures, hospitals, schools, parks, and airports
What is WPA (Works Progress Administration)?
Stated that the US would support any nation threatened by communism. Played a large role in the developing Cold War with the Soviet Union. Helped set the stage for the Marshall Plan