Political, Economic, and Cultural Developments After WWI
Fears grew around immigrants and nativism grew across the United States following WWI.
What is the Red Scare?
These territories were controlled by the United States during the Spanish American War.
What is Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines
A “Robber Baron” or “Captain of Industry” in the Gilded Age. He was known for horizontal integration and buying out other businesses to make himself more successful. He was the head of the oil business and is credited as being the founder of modern oil.
What is John D. Rockefeller?
These two groups built the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is Chinese and Irish-American Immigrants?
An instrument for reproducing sounds by means of the vibration of a stylus, or needle, following a groove on a rotating disc.
What is A Phonograph?
Caused a national identity across the United States. Furthered by technological advancements and innovation.
What is The Radio and/or Motion Pictures.
This president was the creator of the "Big Stick Diplomacy" used in western hemisphere affairs from 1901-1909.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
A robber baron or captain of business. He was head of the steel industry in america. He was a Scottish-American industrialist, philanthropist, and businessman. He worked for the Pennsylvania railroad until he founded his company in 1892.
What is Andrew Carnegie?
What is The Battle of Wounded Knee?
Trial debating whether or not segregation was against the 14th Amendment.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Used by Henry Ford to create Automobiles; caused cars to be more widely available and cheaper.
What is The Assembly Line?
The expansion of America political, social, economic, Cultural, media, and military.
What is American Imperialism?
What is a Tenement House?
Legislation passed to give Native Americans land and citizenship if they became a Jeffersonian Farmer.
What is the Dawes Act of 1887?
Journalists that reported the wrong doings in factories and big businesses during the progressive era.
What are Mukrakers?
A uniquely American type of music.
What is Jazz?
Man made body of water used to make travel by sea easier for people all around the world but especially North and Central America.
What is The Panama Canal?
Served as a cattle ranch and became a U.S. Army post during the Civil War. After that was used to process hundreds of thousands of immigrants. During WWII it held Japanese and german prisoners of war.
What is Angel Island?
African Americans that fought in the French and Indian war and the Civil War.
Allowed American voters to now vote for the senators representing their state.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This caused a lot of discourse with the Ku Klux Klan and many men protested against it.
This was a battle under the command of William Rufus Shafter during the Spanish American War.
What is the Battle of San Juan Hill?
Book written In 1900 published by The Library of Congress. Exposed the horrors of the meat packaging industry.
What is "The Jungle" By Upton Sinclair?
Lakota Native tribe leader during the Wounded Knee Massacre.
What is Chief Big Foot and/or Spotted Elk?
Photographer who focused on the dehumanizing conditions of Tenement housing.
Who is Jacob Reis?