Gilded Age
The first railroad linking the East to the West. Faster and more efficient way of travel for people and goods.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A journalist, worked to expose corruption and abuses in politics and society. Ex: Jungle
What is a Muckraker?
Loyalty and devotion to the nation, not to the people
What is Nationalism?
subculture of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and smoked cigars. Against the standardized women figure.
What is a Flapper?
Created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Authorized loans to large businesses that suffered losses. Tried creating new jobs out of public works projects, like the Hoover Dam.
What was the Hoover Administration?
A policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
What is Nativism?
Presenting little or no legitimate, well searched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for sales increases.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Said that the U.S. would be diplomatic but would use military power to protect American interests in Latin America. ¨Speak softly and carry a big stick.¨
What was the Big Stick Diplomacy?
Russian Revolution started as a worker Revolt, Americans associated labor strike to Communism. People feared that communists wanted to overthrow the U.S. government.
What was the Red Scare?
Buying stocks on margin led to rampant speculation which led to Falsely high stock prices. Limit foreign trade and investment. Tariffs.
What were causes of the Great Depression?
Established in 1862. Federal land grant. Ages 21 and head of each family could claim 160 acres of land for free as long as the land was improved. Ex: farming, cattle raising.
What is the Homestead Act
Social movement, led by protestant clergy men. The abolition of child labor. Ban on Alcohol. Safer working conditions. Regulations on Big Buisness, and an increased focus on charity and helping those who were less fortunate
What was the Social Gospel Movement?
Turning point of WW1. Succeeded in its objective to capture and break important German railroad stations. Final allied offensive that forced the Germans to agree to the armistice
What was the Battle of Argonne Forest?
The 1920’s saw an influx of African Americans moving to urban areas in the North, Many were escaping racism, sharecropping, and tenant farming in the south in search of better economic opportunities.
What was the Great Migration?
Millions of acres of farmland became Useless which led to increased poverty levels and Inflated Food prices. Great clouds of dust and sand were carried by the wind, leading to health problems.
What was the Dust Bowl?
The Groups that controlled activity in political parties, used money to influence lower class to gain their votes. Created the spoils system.
What is a Political Machine?
With the end of Reconstruction, legislatures in the southern states passed laws that were intended to enforce racial segregation
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
Severe reparation payments placed on Germany by Britain and France (33 Billion Dollars). Weakened the power of Germany in international community. Takes away German Military. U.S.A., France, and Britain now and forever allies
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Study of human improvement by genetic means. Higher Reproduction of those with strong, favorable traits vs. Undesirable traits. A way to get rid of racial and biological “mistakes”. Including the forced sterilization of “undesirables”
What is Eugenics?
Instituted by President Hoover, Resulted in local laws Prohibiting the employment of anyone of Mexican descent, even U.S. Citizens. Over a million Mexican-Americans were Deported.
What was the "Real Jobs for Real Americans Program"?
Nearly extermination of the American Buffalo. Closing of the frontier and establishment of western cities and towns. Meatpacking industry.
What is the Westward Expansion?
Led by women and christian ministers who saw alcohol as the root of societys problems. Led to the 18th Amendment.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Unrestricted submarine warfare. Lusitania is sunk (1915), The British passenger liner, Lusitania, was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boats. Zimmerman telegram (1917), Germany was trying to propose a military alliance with Mexico against the U.S.
What were the reasons for U.S entry into WW1?
On Sept. 1920 bombs were set off on Wall Street and 38 people were killed. One bomb targeted and damaged the house of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Raids targeted radical immigrants.Thousands if immigrants were arrested and 500 were deported.
What were the Palmer Raids?
October 29, 1929, when billions of dollars were lost on the New York Stock Exchange. America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the deepest and longest-lasting economic Downturn.
What was Black Tuesday?