Gilded Age
Coated thinly in gold.
What is Gilded?
Presenting little or no legitimate, well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales. Today we call this Clickbait.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Project in Hoovers Administration which gave people without jobs an opportunity.
What is the Hoover Dam?
Connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, allowing for faster and more efficient trade
What is The Panama Canal?
Women who cut their hair short, wore short skirts, put makeup on, drank and smoke in public, and rejecting the constricting styles of the Victorian Era.
What were Flappers?
Custer's last stand. A momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
An early 20th century journalist who worked to expose corruption and abuses in politics and society.
What are Muckrakers?
Shanty towns created by the homeless throughout the United States. Happened in Hoovers Administration.
What are Hoovervilles?
Cuban Revolution, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, and Yellow Journalism where causes of a war.
What was the Spanish-American War?
Italian immigrants and anarchists, were charged with robbery and murder at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
A federal land grant that allowed citizens who were 21 and the head of their family to claim 160 acres of land.
What is the Homestead Act (1862)?
This law was passed in response to Upton Sinclair's work The Jungle. This legislation was intended to protect consumers from harmful, adulterated, misbranded, or poisonous foods, drugs, medicines and liquors; the manufacture, sale or transportation of such items was regulated
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Millions of acres of farmland became useless which led to increased poverty levels and inflated food prices. Hundreds of thousands migrated from the midwest, many to California.
What is The Dust Bowl?
Allows all nations to have the equal opportunity to trade with China. Happened in McKinley Presidency.
What is the Open Door Policy?
On Sept. 1920 bombs were set off on Wall Street and 38 people were killed, Mitchell Palmer lead this. They raided European immigrants houses.
What were Palmer Raids?
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Railroads
Andrew Carnegie, Steel
John D. Rockefeller, Oil
J.P. Morgan, Banking
Who were the 4 main Entrepreneurs during the Gilded Age?
The Temperance Movement would eventually lead to the passage of this amendment which would later be cleared in the 21st amendment. Banned Alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment ?
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 when billions of dollars were lost on the New York Stock Exchange.
What is Black Tuesday?
This Battle was the turning point of WWI. Succeeded in its objective to capture and break important German railroad stations.
What is The Battle of Argonne Forest?
Limited amount of people into the U.S. from Southern and Eastern Europe.
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
Lead by Terence V. Powderly. Rejected socialism and anarchism. Was open to all workers, including immigrants, African-Americans, women and low-skilled workers.Main demands were to have an 8 hour work day and to end child and convict labor
What as the Knights of Labor?
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program Conservation of natural resources, Control of corporations, and Consumer protection.
What is Roosevelt Square Deal?
New deal regulates stock markets and businesses to ensure against fraud.
What is the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
1.Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
2.Lusitania is Sunk
3.Germany's Sussex Pledge wasn't upheld
4.Zimmerman Telegram
5.Ties to Great Britain.
Why did the US join the War?
Cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?