Government Acts
Provided the American government with the means to raise an army from the general population.
What is the Selective Service Act?
Was President of the United States during World War I.
What is Woodrow Wilson?
The term for the system in which ward bosses keep a specific politician in office by forcing new immigrants to vote a certain way in exchange for food, shelter, and jobs.
What is a political machine?
A movement to reform some of the worst aspects of early 20th c. American city life resulting from rapid urbanization and industrialization.
What is Progressivism?
Caused the deaths of 150 people and led to reforms in fire codes and workplace safety.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire?
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution provided for this.
What is Women's Suffrage?
This Frenchman toured the United States shortly after its founding and identified 5 values that made America different from Europe.
Who is Alexis De Tocuqeville
This labor group focused on organizing skilled workers by trade. Their methods included strikes and violent protest.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
The policy of gaining territory or colonies for prestige, economic or military power.
What is imperialism?
*Daily Double* The court case Schenck v. United States determined that this could be restricted during a time of war in the interest of national security.
What is free speech?
Gave Native Americans individual family plots of farm land and required assimilation into American culture
What is the Dawes Act?
The assassination of this person marked the start of WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The failed political party that primarily represented farmers and supported adding silver to the money supply in the late 1800's.
What is the Populist party?
The movement which wanted to ban alcohol entirely
What is temperance?
The destruction of this passenger ship paved the way for American entrance into the First World War.
What is the Lusitania?
This law was used to break up monopolies like Standard Oil into smaller separate companies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
He used the Bessemer process to make steel affordable and mass produced.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This Gilded Age system gave political donors high paying government jobs on the basis of favoritism instead of merit.
What is the Spoils System?
*Daily Double* Taft's foreign policy which hoped for good relations with other countries by investing U.S. dollars over seas.
What is dollar diplomacy?
Court case that resulted from a black man buying a seat on a "whites only" train car. Supreme court ruled "separate but equal" facilities were Constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
One of the first government regulations on big business, this act set limits on the rates railroads could charge across state lines.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
A leader of the early civil rights movement who founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after WWI which included a diplomatic organization called the League of Nations.
What are the 14 points?
Belief started in protestant churches during the Progressive Era, stated that it was a moral duty for society to take care of the less fortunate.
What is the Social Gospel?
The reason that Teddy Roosevelt supported a rebellion against Columbia.
What is the Panama Canal?