West Ward Expansion
Massive movement of cash across long areas without much police presence.
What is the "Wild West"
A fire in a New York textile mill where the workers were locked in to avoid them leaving work to join protests about bad working conditions.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
The issue where an individual may feel more loyal to their cultural background than their political leaders. This was the largest issue in the beginning of WWI.
What is cultural vs national identity?
The theory that free speech does not include inspiring illegal actions.
What is clear and present danger?
Taking out a loan to buy a stock and using the stock itself as collateral with the understanding that if the stock drops the borrower will need to repay.
What is buying on the margin?
Oil, Land, and Gold
What were economic reasons for westward expansion?
Groups that came together to push for better working conditions.
What are labor unions?
How the US financed WWI.
What is income tax and war bonds?
Increase of the KKK, closing the "Golden Door" to the US, and attempts to create the biologically perfect American.
What is 100% American?
Environmental disaster created by damaging farming techniques by inexperienced farmers and an exceptionally bad drought.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Ghost Dance, increased American expansion, and Custer's Last Stand.
What caused total warfare against the Native Americans?
A person who reported on an injustice or bad condition and encouraged change during the Progressive Era.
What is a muckraker?
What is the Zimmerman Note?
Resurgence of African-American culture that was rooted in African arts and culture, Southern folk traditions, and life in the urban ghetto.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Veterans asking for their war-time promised bonuses were forcibly removed from DC causing national outrage.
What is the Bonus Army?
Government encouragement for people to move west and included Oklahoma Land Races.
What is the Homestead Act?
Temperance Movement and Suffrage Movement
What are movements women pushed during the Progressive Era?
Spread rapidly due to the movement of troops during the war, hostility to public health measures, and the lack of understanding of transmission.
What is the Spanish Flu?
President that believed in a Laissez-faire view of economic policy that can be summed up as "The Business of America is Business".
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
Project in Tennessee that had long lasting benefit in creating affordable electricity.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Encouraged immigration of Chinese to complete and connected the East and West coasts of the US.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
President who worked for conservation of American lands, broke up trusts and big businesses, and gave consumers protections like the Food and Drug Administration.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Was meant to make the US a more stable country but led to a rebellious youth culture and the creation and increase in organized crime.
What is prohibition?
New Deal group that completed projects mostly in national forests such as planting trees and making hiking paths.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?