Gilded Age
Inventor of the light bulb, innovator during the Gilded Age.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Person actively working to improve society/government.
What is a reformer?
The Declaration of independence.
Relief, reform, and recovery.
What was the goal of the New Deal?
People feared communists wanted to overthrow the U.S. government.
What was the Red Scare?
Erasing a person/group(s) culture and forcing them to adapt/change to American culture.
What is Assimilation?
Journalists who put a spotlight on corruption in society and politics.
What is a Muckraker?
-Changes to the Constitution
-Protect the rights of people and limit the power of the Federal Government
What are the Amendments?
-Billions of dollars were lost on the New York Stock Exchange
-Industrialized parts of the world spiraled downward into the longest-lasting economic downturn in the Western World up to that time
What was Black Tuesday?
-WW1 veterans having hard time finding work when returning home
-People wanted to return to traditional ways
-Increased Inflation
What were Post-War Issues?
something that seems to be beautiful and golden, but is actually rotten/corrupt underneath.
What is the meaning of "Gilded"?
Novel describing the conditions of the meatpacking industry.
What was Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?
Freedom of Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, and Speech.
What is the first Amendment?
-Limited foreign trade and investment
-buying stocks on margin led to large speculation which led to falsely high stock prices
What were the main causes of the Great Depression?
-"America First"
-"Return to Normalcy"
-Return to Laissez-Faire
-Reduced Taxes
Who was Warren G. Harding?
Protected workers from easily being replaced and fought for better working conditions.
What is a Labor Union?
Banned the sale of falsely labeled food and drugs.
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
People in America were free to flourish without hereditary distinctions, and individuals believed they could rise in society.
What is Individualism?
-Widespread unemployment
-Food shortages
-Increased prices
What were the effects of the Great Depression?
-Most sensational scandal in U.S. History during the 1920s
-People in Harding's Cabinet took bribes to lease lands containing oil reserves
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Makes it illegal for businesses to get too powerful in a way that harms competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
-Secret society formed in the 1800s by ex Confederate soldiers in opposition to Reconstruction, later disbanded.
-Revived in 1915 by white nativists
-Advocated for white supremacy
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
The government's "hands off" approach to the economy.
What is Laissez-Faire?
-Years of sustained drought
-farmers over planting and not rotating crops, depleting the topsoil
What were the causes of the Dust Bowl?
(1924)
-Low Taxes
-Balanced Budgets
-Robust Economy
-declining unemployment
What were the effects of the "Coolidge Prosperity"?