Period 6: The West and the Gilded Age
Idea used to justify racism, imperialism, and accumulation of wealth; rich were rich and poor were poor due to natural selection
What is social darwinism?
The direct cause of U.S. entry into WWI
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
New Deal Relief institution which allowed the federal government to fund state and local projects; employed over 8.5 million people
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)?
Largest civil rights gathering in U.S. history, where MLK made his "I Have a Dream Speech"
What is the March On Washington?
Developed in response to threat of Soviet expansionism, providing over $12 billion to Western European nations (Per. 8)
Bonus 100: Name the Soviet economic organization which was created in response
What is the Marshall Plan?
Bonus: COMECON
Established to assimilate Native Americans, tribal land was taken away and sold
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
Led by Oppenheimer and employed American & Jewish refugee scientists to create the atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
Meeting attended by FDR, Churchhill, and Stalin to discuss the division of Germany, and the Soviet Union's annexation of territories
What is the Yalta Conference?
Health insurance programs created by Lyndon B. Johnson during his development of the Great Society
Bonus 100 Points: Which supported the poor, and which supported the elderly?
What is Medicare and Medicaid?
Bonus: Medicare for elders, Medicaid for the poor
First federal act to outlaw monopolistic business practices (ineffective at first) (Per. 6)
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Court case which had ruled "separate but equal" did not violate the 14th amendment
Amendment which gave women the right to vote on a national level
What is the 19th Amendment?
Court case which ruled that the Espionage and Sedition Act did not violate first amendment rights
What is Schenck v. United States?
Series of acts passed after 9/11 to improve national security
What are the PATRIOT Acts?
Teddy Roosevelt's policy to use military force if necessary to regulate the western hemisphere
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
Written by Andrew Carnegie, proclaiming the wealthy's responsibility of charity and philanthropy
What is Gospel of Wealth?
Increased tariff on foreign imports in order to stimulate domestic economy during the Great Depression (worsened economy)
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
Fueled by the Great Migration; flowering of African American culture and pride
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
These members of the United Nations have veto power
Bonus 100 Points: Name the 5 members
What is the Security Council?
Bonus: U.S., UK, China, Russia, France
The Reagan administration's secret sale of arms to Iran in exchange for the release of the American hostages (Per. 9)
What is the Iran-Contra Scandal?
Founded by Jane Addams to provide social and educational opportunities for working class immigrants
What is the Chicago Hull House?
Attempts by the U.S. government to arrest radical leftists and anarchists; done without warrants during the Red Scare
What are the Palmer Raids?
WWII program under FDR which authorized the sale/loaning of war materials to any country whom the president deemed vital to the defense of the U.S.
What is the Lend-Lease Program?
Woman who wrote the "Feminine Mystique;" a leading member of the women's liberation movement
Who is Betty Friedan?
Jimmy Carter's framework for a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel (Per. 8)
What are the Camp David Accords?