The West
What did the Homestead Act do?
What are ethnic clusters?
Groups of people in cities that congregate together due to likeness
What war did the destruction of the USS Maine spark?
Spanish-American War
What is credit?
A line of money the bank lends you that you have to pay back with interest
List two causes of the Great Depression
Excess consumerism
Easy Credit
Consumer debt
Farm & factory overproduction/surplus
High tariffs
Rising unemployment
Laissez-faire economic policy
Buying stock ‘on margin’
Stock Market Crash
Who was Pap Singleton?
Led the Exodusters out of the South to the West (to find more opportunity/freedom)
What is a political machine?
A corrupt city government where the poor suffer
What are the MAIN causes of WWI?
Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Black writers, artists, and musicians that defined American culture in Harlem, NY
What did Hoover believe about "fixing" the Great Depression?
Rugged Individualism
What connected the East and West?
Transcontinental Railroad
Who are the muckrakers?
Investigative journalists who exposed Gilded Age corruption
Treaty of Versailles
What new invention changed American culture in the 1920s?
the radio
What is a Hooverville?
A run down shelter for those impacted by the Great Depression
What is assimilation?
To make a people group conform to another
What is the spoils system?
Hiring someone based on networking and not skill (Garfields assassination)
What is a protectorate?
Cuba and Philippines are "protected" or parented by the US
What is a flapper?
A woman in the 1920s who dressed "provocatively," smoked, drove, and overall obtained more agency
What is a fireside chat?
FDR's tactic to make the public trust him and the economy again
What is the Dawes Act?
Created reservations and aimed to turn Indigenous into yeomen farmers
What did the 18th amendment ban?
Liquor
What did Woodrow Wilson campaign for at the end of WWI that ultimately failed?
League of Nations
What is a speakeasy?
An illegal bar
List three New Deal laws, policies, or agencies.
CCC
WPA
TVA
NRA
Banking holiday
FDIC
Social Security
SEC
AAA