Gilded Era
When a company has sole control over an industry or market.
What is a monopoly?
The name given to FDR's plan to bring the country out of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
President during WWI.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
Event that propelled the U.S. into WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
The explosion of black art and political engagement that took place in New York City in the 1920's.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Survival of the fittest is the phrase associated with this Gilded Era philosophy.
What is Social Darwinism?
The year the stock market crashed.
What is 1929?
Treaty that ended WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Laws passed with the intent of keeping the U.S. out of WWII.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
The Supreme Court's holding in Plessy vs Ferguson.
an economic philosophy that advocates for minimal government interference in the economy
What is Laissez-Faire economics?
The result of overfarming and drought in the Midwest.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Post WWI organization meant to prevent another World War. Precursor of the United Nations.
What is the League of Nations?
FDR's plan to provide weapons to Great Britain without payment.
What is Lend-Lease?
The Supreme Court case that ended segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A building housing numerous apartments, often squalid, overcrowded, and in disrepair.
What is a tenement?
Lower prices which lead to reduced profits for businesses, potentially leading to job cuts and reduced investment.
What is deflation?
Woodrow Wilson's plan for the post WWI world.
What are the 14 Points?
The name of the effort to create a nuclear weapon.
What was the Manhattan Project?
Women who expressed new found independence in voting, dress, behavior, and participation in the workforce.
What are Flappers?
The name given to journalists dedicated to uncovering the underbelly of the Gilded Era.
What are muckrakers?
Series of speeches given by FDR over the radio to reassure and educate Americans during the Great Depression.
What are fireside chats?
Biased media intended to influence public opinion.
What is propaganda?
The Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas.
What is imperialism?