Period 6
Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history
John D Rockefeller
An article explains the philanthropic responsibility of the new upper class of self-made rich
The Gospel of Wealth
Who adopted Islam and rejected integration, arguing instead Blacks with a superior race?
Malcolm X
Conservative Religious Organization lead by Televangelist Jerry Falwell
Moral Majority
Congress has the power to lay and collect income taxes
16th
Economic depression due to rail road companies overextending themselves, causing bank failures.
Panic of 1893
An act that required the U.S Treasury to purchase 4.5 million ounces of silver to stabilize and increase the U.S money supply with backed silver
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Movement that women moved appropriately for equality of opportunity in the economy and politics
Second-Wave Feminist Movement
Al Queda
21st
Political bosses benefited from bribes or campaign contributions, while the contributing company benefited from government contracts and pro-company policies
Crony capitalism
A plan by President Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reforms to the country after the Great Depression.
New Deal
Efforts of ___, the rights of Latin American agricultural workers benefited from the presence
Cesar Chavez
Patriot Act
Gave women the right to vote
19th
Why wildcat strikes failed?
Too many demands and unskilled laborers
Treaty ending WWI; required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
What is Marshall Plan?
To provide money to Europe to stabilize their democratic countries and prevent them from falling to communist
Known as ObamaCare-reforming of the health care system for universal coverage
The Affordable Care Act
Prohibited alcoholic beverages in the US
18th
The last great agrarian movement formed in the 1880s
A group of writers, journalists, and critics who exposed corporate malfeasance and political corruption in the first decade of the 20th century.
Muckrakers
Second Red Scare was defined by
McCarthyism
A law that prohibits hiring illegals(undocumented foreigners)
Immigration Reform and Control Act
17th