Gilded Age
Profit-driven system
What is capitalism?
City growth term.
What is urbanization?
Investigative reform journalists.
Who were the muckrakers?
1898 war
What was the Spanish-American War?
Anticapitalist ideology.
What is communism?
One-firm market control.
What is a monopoly?
Fear/hostility toward outsiders.
What is xenophobia?
Breaking up monopolies.
What is trust busting?
1915 ship sinking shifts opinion.
What was the Lusitania?
Russian revolutionary ideology.
What is Bolshevism?
Steel titan & philanthropy.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
1882 law targeting Chinese.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Women’s suffrage amendment.
What was the 19th Amendment (1920)?
1917 telegram to Mexico.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
Red Scare raids.
What were the Palmer Raids?
Oil magnate & Standard Oil.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
1924 quotas favoring Northern Europe.
What was the Immigration Act of 1924?
Reform aim against corruption.
What was curbing political machines, regulating industry, and expanding democracy?
1917 draft law.
What was the Selective Service Act?
Alcohol ban & underground bars.
What were Prohibition and speakeasies?
Ideology of public ownership.
What is socialism?
Immigrant life challenges.
What were tenements, low-wage labor, discrimination, and political exploitation?
How progressives tackled Gilded Age issues.
What were regulatory laws, antitrust actions, social reforms, and political democratization?
Free speech case (1919).
What was Schenck v. United States?
Black cultural flowering and leaders.
What were the Harlem Renaissance, the NAACP, and figures like Marcus Garvey?