Legislation
Banned all new immigration from China
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Progressive Reformer and founder of the Hull House
Jane Addams
Mass movement of southern African Americans to the North for jobs during World War I
Great Migration
government approach of "hands off" or "let it be"
Laissez-Faire
Iconic example of female workers during World War II
Rosie the Riveter
Provided that a belligerent nation could buy U.S. arms if it used its own ships and pain in cash.
Cash and Carry 1939
Author of "Gospel of Wealth," industrial tycoon in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
This battle in 1890 between the United States Army and Native Americans marked the end of the Indian Wars and helped close the American West
Battle of Wounded Knee
Inner-city housing in which families were crammed into small, windowless rooms.
tenements
Square Deal
Allowed for direct election of U.S. Senators
17th Amendment
American President during the 1920s who allowed business to operate without government intervention
Calvin Coolidge
The sinking of this passenger ship was an example of Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare. 128 Americans were killed.
Lusitania
Sensational reporting that featured bold and exaggerated headlines
Yellow Journalism
Process of turning raw iron into steel
Bessemer Process
Policy that the U.S. would send gunboats to a Latin American country that was delinquent in paying its debts. U.S. sailors and marines would then occupy the country's major exports to manage a collection of taxes until debts were paid.
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Those who left Oklahoma during the Great Depression to look for jobs in other states
Okies
This conference at the end of World War II divided Germany into 4 occupied zones and made further plans for peace after the war
Yalta Conference
applying Christian principles to society
Social Gospel
Free speech is limited when it presents a "clear and present" danger
Schenck vs United States
Banned racial discrimination in defense industries
Executive Order 8802
Author who wrote about the significance of the frontier on American History
Frederick Jackson Turner
The nickname for when the Federal Government stopped the coinage of silver and went back to the gold standard
Crime of '73
allowing colonies and territories the right to choose their government
self-determination
The teaching that every word in the Bible was true literally
Fundamentalism