Economy
This culture was popularized during the increase of advertisement and marketing.
What is shopping/consumer culture?
The main idea of social darwinism is...
What is natural selection/survival of the fittest?
A name given to prejudice and restrictions against immigrants in favor of native-born Americans, often seen in times of large immigrant waves.
What is Nativism?
In the Texas Annexation, who did Texas separate from...
What is Mexico?
The name for the relative leniency and free rein given to the American Colonies by Britain before the 1770s?
What is Salutary Neglect?
Severe worldwide economic depression between 1929 and 1939 that began after a major fall in stock prices in the United States.
What is the Great Despression?
Winner of the Election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This class expanded due to increasing white-collar jobs
What is middle class?
African Americans that remained on farmland post-reconstruction were called
What are sharecroppers?
The Cold War policy of getting what you want by pushing your adversary to the edge and forcing compliance
What is Brinkmanship?
The two most successful industrial goods in the U.S. at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Centuries
What is steel and oil?
This organization promoted abstinence from alcohol, which they protested with pray-ins at local taverns.
This was started with a mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor.
What is the Spanish- American War?
White supremacy group that tried to prevent African Americans from exercising new rights and destroy the republican party
What is the KKK?
President Reagan's belief that offering tax cuts to the wealthy would lead to reinvestment in industry, thereby stimulating the economy
What is Supply Side, or Trickle-Down, Economics
Throughout most of U.S. History, women's "place" in society was here.
What is at home?
Post-Civil war, the South was divided into 5 military districts with rules for re-admittance through an act called...
What were the Reconstruction Acts?
The name for the widespread fear of a potential rise of communism after both WWI and WWII.
What is the Red Scare?
Founded in 1869, was a prominent national labor organization that advocated for the eight-hour day.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
Acronym that stands for countries that export and produce oil who made their presence felt in the 1970s
What is OPEC?
1830s invention that led to the increase of nationally marketed goods (mass production, consumption, specialization)
What are railroads?
The name for the third party in the 1912 presidential election
What is the Bull Moose / Progressive party
The age that was seen as golden yet had many underlying political problems.
What is the Gilded Age?
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the main catalyst for the start of this war.
What is World War I?
Acronym that stands for a defensive military alliance of the United States and many northern European countries
What is NATO