Quarter 1
The writings of this man, and of this time period, gave the American Colonists many political ideals like consent of the governed and democratic principles.
John Locke, and the Enlightenment!
President Andrew Jackson used this to gain control of the fertile land in the Southeast for Americans to farm.
Indian Removal Act
This term describes owners of big businesses because they eliminated competition using ruthless methods.
Robber barons!
The sinking of this ship caused a mass controversy, sparking the Spanish-American War!
The USS Maine
A lot of people immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s. What did the US do to limit immigration in the 20's?
Quotas
This group tried desperately to get the Constitution of the United States ratified. (They were FOR the Constitution!)
Federalists!
This slogan was the idea that the US was destined to expand "from Sea to Shining Sea!!"
Manifest Destiny!!
During this era, presidents Teddy Roosevelt William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson broke with this philosophy, stating that the government should be "hands off" of business!
Laissez-Faire
Name this type of journalism, where journalists stretch the truth to create sensationalized headlines to sell newspapers
Yellow Journalism
In the Scopes trial, what was teacher John Scopes on trial and convicted of?
Teaching evolution in schools!
The framers of the Constitution had to compromise over slavery. Describe what the Three-fifths clause was in the Constitution!
Ask Mr. Snyder
The election of this man led to the Southern States seceding from the Union (and the Start of the Civil War!)
Abraham Lincoln!
This muckraker wrote the book the Jungle exposing what industry?
Meat-Packing
What were the two big events to cause the US to enter WW1?
The sinking of the Lusitania(and Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare) and the Zimmermann Telegram! (The Boat and the Note!!!)
During WW1, hundreds of thousands of African Americans migrated North to work in factories. As a result, there was a flourishing of Black Culture in Northern cities. This was known as...
The Harlem Renaissance
The ______________ told European Nations to stay out of our hemisphere! (And gave us a special relationship with our neighbors in Latin America)
The Monroe Doctrine!
These three laws were created in the Reconstruction South to restrict the voting rights of African Americans.
Grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and poll taxes!
As a result of Upton Sinclair's the Jungle, what law gets passed to make sure this doesn't happen again?
The Pure Food and Drug Act
Finish this sentence from Woodrow Wilson asking Congress for a declaration of war: "The world must be made safe for ______________."
Democracy!
President Herbert Hoover and the Republicans were seen as unable to solve the Depression because...
See Snyder
This new invention made trade much easier by connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River by way of the Great Lakes.
The Erie Canal!
This form of agriculture was created in the South in the decades following the Civil War which kept Freed african Americans in poverty
Sharecropping
To solve this problem, the progressives instituted the recall, referendum, ballot initiative, and the 17th Amendment!
Government Corruption
What was the one MAJOR addition from Wilson's 14 points that made it into the Treaty of Versailles? (This also was the main reason that the US did NOT sign the treaty!)
The League of Nations
What was the program created by FDR to fix the Great Depression called?
The New Deal