Westward Expansion
The belief that Americans had a divine right to expand to the western United States.
What is manifest destiny?
A company that has complete control of a particular market.
What is a monopoly?
The belief that native-born Americans are superior to those who immigrate to the United States.
What is nativism?
The legislation that prohibiting the buying, selling, and drinking of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The three main reasons for imperialism.
What are economic strength, military strength, and cultural superiority?
The spark that directly led to fighting in World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?
The women who pushed back against society's expectations.
Who are the flappers?
The main catalyst for the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
The animal nearly exterminated as a result of creating the transcontinental railroad.
What are the buffalo?
Groups that rose in prominence during industrialization to protect the rights of workers.
What are unions?
The place in New York City in which groups of immigrants came to enter the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
The group of journalists that exposed harsh working and living conditions of Americans in the early 20th century.
Who are the muckrakers?
Roosevelt's approach to imperialism that aimed at displaying American military strength/capabilities to discourage threats.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
The document intercepted by Great Britain in which Germany asked Mexico to become military allies.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
The practice of placing caps on the number of people able to enter the United States which rose out of nativism and fear of communism/anarchism/socialism.
What are immigration quotas?
FDR's public broadcasts aimed at getting the American public to trust the government and banks again.
What are fireside chats?
The group of African Americans who traveled West to escape the conditions of slavery and discrimination in the South.
Who are the exodusters?
What is laissez-faire?
The areas in cities where groups of immigrants would reside close to each other in order to feel a sense of comfort and community.
What are ethnic enclaves?
The organization created by W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells, and Mary Church Terrell to combat the discrimination and racism toward Black Americans.
What is the NAACP?
The physical link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that gave the US control of both, allowing for the quick movement of trade and military ships.
What is the Panama Canal?
The legislation created by the government to limit freedom of speech and control discussion of the war.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
The movement in which Black artists began to express their experiences and feelings about injustices and racism through music, poetry, and painting.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The nickname for the multitude of programs put in place by FDR to relieve the conditions of the Great Depression.
What is Alphabet Soup?
The cycle of moving to a town that had gold, rapidly building infrastructure, then abandoning the town when the mines dry up.
What is the boom and bust cycle?
The powerful industrialists in the 19th century that used questionable practices to gain their wealth.
What are robber barons?
Organizations that command enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state.
What are political machines?
The legislation that came as a response to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the food industry.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
The strategy proposed by John Hay to share the markets of China with other major global powers.
What is Open Door Policy?
The agreement created by the Big Four that forced Germany to take blame for the war, pay reparations, and demilitarize.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The trial that focused on the battle between science and religion in the 20s over the teaching of evolution in a Tennessee school.
What is the Scopes Trial?
Hoover's policy that focused on the people pulling themselves out of the Depression rather than utilizing government intervention.
What is rugged individualism?
What is Wounded Knee?
Railroad workers strike led by Eugene Debs and the American Railways Union in solidarity with the workers of a railcar company who lost 25-30% of their wages.
What is the Pullman Strike?
Author of How the Other Half Lives which exposed the living conditions in major cities and tenement houses.
Who is Jacob Riis?
The legislation that allows for the direct election of Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
The military base gained by the United States at the end of the Spanish-American War.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
The governmental agency created to distribute all information about the war to the public.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
William Harding's campaign slogan after the major destruction and disillusionment of the Great War.
What is a return to normalcy?
The tariff established by Hoover that reduced global trade and expanded the depression worldwide.
What is the Hawley Smoot Tariff?