Gilded Age
This process encouraged Natives to adapt to and participate in western culture.
What is Americanization/Assimilation?
An early 20th century journalist who worked to expose corruption and abuse.
What is a Muckraker?
This war led to the USA gaining control of several Caribbean and Island Nations.
What is the Spanish American War?
This president is known for the post war "Return to Normalcy".
Who is President Harding?
On this day the stock market crashed, and billions of dollars were lost in the New York Stock Exchange.
What is Black Tuesday?
This beast was very important to the Native Americans, and was almost driven extinct.
What are Buffalo?
____ is the practice of using misleading but flashy titles to draw an audience
What is Yellow Journalism?
Yellow Journalism, the sinking of the USS Maine, the Cuban Revolution, and ____ are all causes of the Spanish American War.
What is the De Lome Letter?
The American Public's attitude towards Communism and Immigrants at this time is known as _____.
What is the Red Scare?
The Great Depression was characterized by a deep economic depression, high unemployment, drought, ____, and the New Deal.
What is The Dust Bowl?
This man invented a new way to make steel, known as the Bessemer Steel Process.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
This book led to large reforms for the meat packing industry.
What is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
This president signed the Open Door Policy in 1899, which led to anyone being able to trade with China.
Who is President McKinley?
This president gave us a more robust economy, returned to Assimilation in a better way, signed the American Indian Citizenship Act, and had the slogan "Keep Cool with Coolidge."
____ led to falsely high stock prices and rampant speculation.
What is Buying on Margins?
This business practice involves buying or merging with all of your competing business, which helped contribute to the success of John D. Rockefeller.
What is Horizontal Integration?
This organization was founded by William Du Bois and Ida B. Wells in 1909 to help Advance the positions of a minority group.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
The USA took the Islands of Hawaii from Queen Liliuokalani, and appointed _____ as the President of Hawaii. (Double Points)
Who is Stanford B. Dole?
American Popular Music, which blended Ragtime, Jazz, and the Blues, originated in _____, Manhattan.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
This ethnic group suffered mass deportation during the Great Depression.
What are Mexicans?
in 1881, President James Garfield was assassinated by _____ because he felt he deserved a government position. (Double Points)
Who is Charles Guiteau?
The Ku Klux Klan primarily targeted African Americans, but they also aggressed on Jews, ____, and foreigners, as they were deemed a "threat" to the American Way of Life
What are Catholics?
Militarism, Nationalism, ____, an Assassination, and Imperialism were all causes of WWI.
A trial was held in 1921. This trial had no sufficient evidence, and was not a fair one. The defendants, ____ and ____ gained public support, but were still executed.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
The exact date of Black Tuesday.
What is October 29th, 1929?