Vocab
Hands-off government
What is Laissez-Faire government?
inventor of the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
The peace treaty that brought WW1 to an end. The treaty ended the state of war between Germany and allied powers.
What is the Treaty of Versailles of 1919?
What is the importance of the transcontinental railroad?
journalism that is based on sensationalism and crude exaggeration
what is yellow journalism?
The federal act that prohibited all immigration of Chinese Laborers.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
American writer who wrote the Jungle and exposed the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Statement initiated by the United States for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China.
What is the Open-Door Policy?
What was the purpose of Manifest Destiny?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
What is imperialism?
First railroad that goes from coast to coast (east to west)
What is the transcontinental railroad?
A writer from the "lost generation" who wrote the Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
A peace agreement between Spain and the United States that ended the Spanish-American war.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The sinking of the lusitana and the zimmerman note
What caused the U.S. to join WW1?
An american legal case in which a high school teacher was accused of violating the law against teaching evolution.
What was the scopes trial?
Outlaws any monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy in restraint of trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Founder of the Standard Oil Company and became one of the world's richest men.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting and extending U.S. commercial and financial interest there.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
Overproduction, speculation, buying on the margin, farms decline, high tariffs, stock market crash.
What were the causes of the Great Depression?
shanty towns built by unemployed and destitute people during the great depression of the early 1930s.
What are hoovervilles?
An act that mandated most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage.
She founded the Women's International League for peace and freedom in 1919.
Who is Jane Addams?
Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy of carefully mediating negotiation supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military
What is the Big Stick Diplomacy?
Americans who advocated annexation evinced a variety of motivations: desire for commercial opportunities in Asia before other countries.
Why was the Philippines important to the U.S.?
prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterate food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the FDA
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?