Westward Expansion/Populism
Post-Civil War which advancement of technology lead to cheap and higher quality resources?
Bessemer Steel Process
What was the name of the man, who used a mafia like group called Tammany Hall, that used bribery and voter fraud to take advantage of immigrants and corrupt officials in government?
Boss Tweed
A type of journalism (reporting) that uses extreme emotion (shock, anger, excitement) to attract readers
Yellow Journalism
In January 1918, President Wilson spoke to congress about the war aims of the nation. His plan ultimately became known as the __________ and was designed to create the lasting peace in the world.
Wilson's 14 points
Warren Harding’s presidential slogan promising a return to big business and a focus on the United States, not foreign nations, following WWI
Return to Normalcy
also called the Patrons of Husbandry, was led by Oliver Kelly, organized to address the social isolation of farm life. They sponsored dances and gathering to attack the doldrums of daily life.
The Grange
Prohibited businesses from being anti-competitive (total domination of an industry)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The policy of making other countries allow for free trade in China
Open Door Policy
Which countries comprised the Triple Entente (the "good guys") in WWI
Great Britain, France, Russia
The highly publicized trial of John Thomas Scopes (a teacher) violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school
The Scopes Trial
Who believed capitalism was a good influence on the American people and that belief lead to them wanting to donate most of their money to charities?
Andrew Carnegie
What is the French Word that means "allow to do"... and in terms of economic policy, it means that the government would be hands off in the economy?
Laissez-Faire
What ship helped spark the Spanish American War?
USS Maine
What are the name of the acts that made it illegal to criticize the U.S. involvement in the war or encourage draft resisters
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors
differing political movement representing the common person, working class, the underdog, FARMERS, etc.
Populism
Investigative journalists exposing corruption, poverty, health hazards, and monopolies
muckrakers
Foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson
Is the system in which support is given only to countries whose moral beliefs are similar to that of the nation offering support.
Moral Diplomacy
What organization did Wilson want to establish?
League of Nations
An arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals with only one part of a product. The product passes from one worker to another until it is finished.
Assembly Line
This authorized the federal gov’t to break up tribal lands sectioning them into individual plots; only those Indians who accepted individual plots were allowed to become US citizens; the objective was to assimilate Indians into mainstream US society by annihilating their cultural and social institutions
Dawes Act
This Gilded Age law, passed in 1882, prevented the immigration of a specific group of people from coming into the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Foreign policy of William Howard Taft
A country using diplomacy, economic pressure and military power to protect their interests outside their borders
Dollar Diplomacy
Who had to take full blame for WWI in the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany
Periods of extreme anti-communism in the United States
Red Scare