Gilded Age
Something that is wrapped in gold or pretty on the outside but rotten on the inside.
What does the word gilded mean?
A journlist that exposed corupt businesses and abuses in politis and society.
What were Muckrakers?
The U.S. would remain free from forming relationships with other nations and would remain neutral in global conflicts.
What is isolationism?
The American people were scared that communist parties would take over with their beliefs,
What was the red scare?
severe drought that made dust storms, farmers misusing their lands
What were the causes of the Dust Bowl?
making improvements to urban infrastructures
providing jobs to immigrants and the poor
giving favors to local businessmen
What is a political machine?
A person who actively works to change/improve society or the government.
What are reformers?
Wilson felt the most important part of his plan was the creation of an international peace organization, the League of Nations, which would prevent future wars.
What was the leage of nations?
Cutting their hair short
Wearing short skirts
Putting on makeup
Drinking and smoking in public
Rejecting the constricting styles of the Victorian Era
What were some of the ways that women were changing in the 20's
Shanty towns that homeless people created throughout the U.S.
What is Hoovervilles?
Labor unions worked to protect workers from easily being replaced and fought for better working conditions, higher wages, and fewer hours. They believed that there was strength in numbers.
What are labor unions?
The economic system of having minimal government interference and regulations
What is Laissez-Faire?
The U.S was intrested in this place for a military base and managed that by taking a hold of their ruler of the time.
What happened during the Annexiton of Hawiia?
Study of human improvement by genetic means.
Higher Reproduction of those with strong, favorable traits vs. Undesirable traits
Way to get rid of racial and biological “mistakes.”
Including the forced sterilization of “undesirables”
The American eugenics movement would inspire similar movements during the Holocaust.
What was Eugenics?
Provides income to elderly Americans as a retirement investment.
What was the Social Security Administration?
Lead by Terence V. Powderly
Rejected socialism and anarchism
Was open to all workers, including
immigrants, African Americans, women,
and low-skilled workers
The main demands were to have an 8-hour work
day and to end child and convict labor
What were the knights of labor?
Led by women and christian ministers who saw alcholism as the root of societys problems.
What was the temprance movement?
Zimmerman Telegram (1917)
Germany sends a message to the ambassador in Mexico.
Decoded by British intelligence
Germany was trying to propose a military alliance with Mexico against the U.S.
What were reasons United state join WW1
The U.S. saw a rise in the mass production of goods because:
increased overseas markets to sell to
the government did not interfere with or put regulations on big businesses
the widespread use of the assembly line
What was mass production?
The Deportation and Repatriation of People of
Mexican Heritage. Mexicans were blamed for the economic crisis and hostility towards Mexicans and Mexican-American workers intensified
What were the effects of the great depression?
Began to rise in the 1860s between miners entering the territory and the Cheyenne & Arapaho who already lived there by the summer of 1864 dozens of homes had been burned and 200 settlers killed.
What is the Sand Creek massacre?
The co-founded of Hull House in Chicago which focused on helping immigrants preserve their cultural values while helping them better assimilate into a more American lifestyle.
Who was jane adams and what did she achevie?
The Treaty of Paris is signed in 1898 and its terms include:
Cuba is liberated from Spanish control and the U.S. can intervene to protect Cuba’s right to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”
U.S. is allowed to maintain a military base in Cuba (Guantanamo Bay)
Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico become U.S. territories
What are the effects of the spanish american war
Fundamentalists were usually Christians who feared the new modern morality would threaten traditional values
They opposed:
Alcohol
Flappers and other “modern” women
The teaching of evolution
What was the impact of fundamentalism?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)
(SEC)
Social Security Administration (SSA)
What were some of the New Deal that Rosevelt put into place?