Unit 1: Westward Expansion
Term that expressed the belief that American settlers were meant to spread democracy and culture across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
This industrialist struck it rich in the Oil industry with his company Standard Oil.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This constitutional amendment granted women suffrage
What is the 19th Amendment?
Who was Franz Ferdinand?
Name of FDR's set of programs to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
Name ONE reason for the decline of the long cattle drive & cowboys.
What is barbed wire, railroad expansion, and/or harsh weather?
This invention, created by Thomas Edison revolutionized American society and industry
The lightbulb
Name for banning/not consuming alcohol - the 18th amendment.
What is Prohibition?
Name at least one territory that the U.S. gained from the Spanish-American War.
What is Guam, Puerto Rico, and/or the Philippines?
Movement of appreciation of African American music, art, and culture
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Formerly enslaved African Americans who left the South to move West
Who were the exodusters?
This process was favored by Carnegie as a more efficient way to refine steel by burning the carbon out of iron.
What is the Bessemer process?
This progressive era voting reform allows citizens to create bills instead of lawmakers
What is an initiative?
Name at least ONE reason the U.S. joined WWI.
-Sinking of the Lusitania
-Zimmerman Telegram
-Protect democracy
-Strong relationship (economic) to allies (Britain & France)
Racist, anti-immigrant group that regained popularity in the 1920s
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This Native American religious movement of the 1890s promised the return of ancestors and the disappearance of white settlers. It alarmed U.S. authorities and contributed to tensions leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
What is the ghost dance?
This business model is achieved by buying out each mode of production (ex. if McDonalds owned chicken farms, delivery trucks, etc.)
What is vertical integration?
This progressive era president sought to reform the atrocities of the Gilded Age with his Square Deal
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
Name at least TWO terms of the 1918 Treaty of Versailles.
-Blame (Germany takes the blame)
-Reparations (Germany pays reparations to damaged countries)
-Army (Germany forced to reduce military)
-Territory (Germany gives up territory - Alsalce Lorraine)
-Self-determination (Nations have option to become independent, Austria & Hungary separated)
The event that led to the Great Depression in 1929
What is the stock market crash/Black Tuesday?
This law broke up Native American Reservations and encouraged assimilation
What is the Dawes Act?
This belief was often used to justify imperialism, inequality, and the concentration of wealth in the late 1800s. It applied the belief of "survival of the fittest" to people.
What was social Darwinism?
This constitutional amendment allows for the direct election of U.S. Senators
What is the 17th amendment?
Leader of the Filipino insurrection against America in the Philippine-American War.
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
This famous trial dealt with teaching evolution in public schools
What was the Scopes Trial?