Unit 1: Gilded Age
The time period when the U.S. was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath
What is the Gilded Age?
Investigative journalists who exposed corruption in business and government
Who are muckrakers?
Name two of the four causes of WWI
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
African Americans moved from the South to North during and after WWI escape what?
What are Jim Crow laws?
This group supported white supremacy
Who is the KKK?
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers
What is nativism?
Law passed by Teddy to protect consumers from contaminated food
What is Pure Food & Drug Act?
The British intercepted this note between Germany and Mexico.
What is Zimmerman Telegram?
This Amendment made it illegal to make or sell alcohol in the 1920s
A time period dedicated to rebuilding the U.S. socially, politically, and economically following the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is New Immigrant?
Progressive Era was focused on correcting political, social, and economic inequality and corruption during this time period
What is Gilded Age?
The majority of the Spanish American War was fought in two countries. Name one.
What is Philippines and Cuba?
This neighborhood was the center of the flourishing African American arts and culture of the 1920s
What is Harlem?
This man used the assembly line to manufacture cars cheaply
Who is Henry Ford?
People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a large money supply and other economic reforms
Who is the Populist Party?
A program proposed by Teddy Roosevelt that conserved natural resources, controlled corporate greed, and protected consumers
What is the Square Deal?
Using business instead of the military to promote America's interests was known as
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
Many Americans began to buy products using this method
What is credit or installment plans?
This artist was known for his poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Langston Hughes?
Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s
What are political machines?
I love to express my opinion using Political Cartoons! William Tweed was a favorite target of mine! Who am I?
Who is Thomas Nast?
This organization was created after WWI to create peace in the world amongst countries, however it did not have the appropriate amount of members to become legitimate, not even the country of the person that created it.
What is the League of Nations?
Established by Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924- limited immigration for the first time in United States history.
Each nationality received a quota based on its representation in past United States census figures.
What is Immigration Quota Act?
This ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?