"Forgettable" Administrations
Nineteenth President. Served 1877–1881. While a Civil War veteran and a Republican, he ended Reconstruction as part of the Compromise of 1877 to resolve the disputed 1876 election.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Twenty-sixth President. Served 1901–1909. A reformist New York governor who pursued the Square Deal.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
An era from 1920 to 1929 that experienced a cultural explosion similar to that of the antebellum period.
What is the Jazz Age/Roaring Twenties?
The name for the worst stock market crash in U.S. history, which occurred on October 29, 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
A war between the United States and Spain (April 21, 1898–August 13, 1898). Ostensibly triggered by the alleged sinking of the Maine by Spanish forces.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Twentieth President. Served from March 4, 1981 until his death on September 19, 1881. He was shot on July 2, 1881, but unsanitary medical treatment caused a fatal infection to take root.
Who was James Garfield?
An influential Protestant social justice movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It stated that Christians had an obligation to improve the lives of those less fortunate, especially the poor.
What is the Social Gospel?
A term for a cultural flowering in a New York City neighborhood during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Thirty-second President. Served 1933–1945. Elected to four terms, and the only president to do so.
Who is FDR?
The peace treaty that ended the Spanish-American War. It turned Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico over to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1898?
Twenty-first President. Served 1881–1885, but only assumed office after President Garfield’s assassination. Mainly remembered for the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, which encouraged a merit-based system for the civil service.
Who was Chester A. Arthur?
A pioneer of yellow journalism in the 1880s and rival to William Randolph Hearst.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
A biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, arrested and brought to trial in 1925 for teaching the theory of evolution.
Who is John Scopes?
A 1934 law that replaced the Dawes Act of 1887, returning lands to the tribes and giving support to Americans Indians to reestablish self-governance.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
A pejorative label for Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy, especially in Panama, that referenced his repeated threats to use military force while negotiating peacefully.
What is the Big Stick Policy?
Twenty-second and twenty-fourth President. Only president to serve non-consecutive terms, in 1885–1889 and 1893–1897. The first Democratic Party president since before the Civil War.
Who was Grover Cleveland?
A nickname for investigative journalists who seek to spur reform and expose corruption.
What is a muckraker?
A type of middle and upper-class woman in the 1920s who cut their hair into short bobs, wore short skirts, rolled down their stockings to reveal their knees, drank alcohol, and danced the Charleston.
What are Flappers?
A series of domestic policy initiatives and social welfare programs proposed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt that concentrated on reform, relief, and recovery.
What is the New Deal?
An amendment to the Monroe Doctrine that stated the United States would come to the aid of any Latin American nation experiencing financial trouble.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Twenty-third President. Served 1889–1893, and was bookended by Cleveland’s two non-consecutive terms. Harrison supported the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act but did little to enforce it.
Who was Benjamin Harrison?
An era of social and political reform that began with the swearing in of Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 and lasted until the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War I in 1917.
What is the Progressive Era?
A 1921 law that set a strict limit on individuals from each nation of origin based on the 1910 census.
What is the Emergency Quota Act (Immigration Act)?
Passed in 1935, the SSA guaranteed income for retirees, the disabled, and the unemployed. Unfortunately, the law was biased—it did not apply to millions of agricultural and service workers, such as domestics, nannies, and janitors, who were largely African American.
What is the Social Security Act?
A 1901 court decision which ruled that a citizen in a conquered territory did not necessarily have the protection of the Constitution.
What are the Insular Cases?