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Events (Units 3,4,5,6)
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In 1970 President Nixon signed this Act Set pollution standards, promoted research, and coordinated anti-pollution activities
What is Environmental Agencies
100
He had a Steel Company and used the Bessemer Steel Process. He started big business and was involved with having a monopoly He had libraries and buildings built in his name and wrote the Gospel of Wealth
What is Andrew Carnegie
100
The railroad ensured a production boom, as industry mined the vast resources of the middle and western continent for use in production Known as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") Built between 1863 and 1869 "Last Spike" at Promontory Summit, Utah
What is Transcontinental Railroad
100
a) the power or right of citizens to introduce a new legislative measure. b) the right and procedure by which citizens can propose a law by petition and ensure its submission to the electorate
What is Initiative
100
Human Factors – many farmers had misused the land (over planting, not rotating crops), millions of acres of farmland became useless, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes Physical Factors – years of sustained drought caused the land to dry up, great clouds of dust and sand were carried by the wind
What is Dust Bowl
200
John Muir helped persuade Theodore Roosevelt to set aside 148 million acres of forest reserves and over 50 wildlife sanctuaries and several national parks. This agency is a US federal agency that manages all national monuments and parks
What is National Park System
200
American reformer and leader in the anti-lynching crusade and women’s suffrage movement
What is Ida B Wells
200
Appealed to farmers Promoted political action to try and protect their industry They wanted the government to own the railroads, telephone and telegraph (to keep large companies from being able to control the prices)
What is Populism Movement
200
the procedure by which a public official may be removed from office by popular vote. The right to employ this procedure. The people can hold their elected leaders accountable for their actions ***During the Progressive Era political reforms were initiated which gave the people more say in how their government was run and operated, resulting in more participatory and democratic government
What is Recall
200
Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929 United States becomes economically vulnerable Changing role of federal government in domestic economic policy
What is Stock Market Crash
300
In 1862 the government supported settlement in the Great Plains by passing this Act. For a $10 registration fee an individual could file for settlement. They could claim up to 160 acres of public land and could receive the title to the land if they lived on the land for 5 years. This Act was a legal way for people to acquire land in the West and people began to move to the Plains.
What is Homestead Act
300
(September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago. Its facilities included a night school for adults, kindergarten classes, clubs for older children, a public kitchen, an art gallery, a coffeehouse, a gym, a girls' club, a bathhouse, a book bindery, music school, a drama group, and a library, as well as labor-related divisions. Her adult night school was a forerunner of the continuing education classes offered by many universities today.
What is Jane Addams
300
Was a gold rush that happened in Yukon Alaska between 1896-1899 People began to move leaving farms and homes to try and end economic depression
What is Klondike Gold Rush
300
December 7, 1941?“a date that will live in infamy” As a result of US sanctions hindering their expansion campaign, the Japanese attacked
What is Pearl harbor
300
Stock market crash Didn’t realize the effect it would have No money to replenish what was borrowed With people panicking about their money investors tried to sell their stocks This leads to a huge decline in stocks Stocks were worthless now People who bought on “margins” now could not pay Investors were average people that were now broke
What is Great Depression
400
author; wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the US meat packing industry, causing a public uproar. Provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines
What is Pure Food & Drug Act (FDA)
400
author; wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the US meat packing industry, causing a public uproar and leading to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
What is Upton Sinclair
400
The US supported a revolution in Panama in the early 1900s. The US was permitted to build the this and control a zone of 5 miles on each side The division of the country into two parts by the US territory caused tension throughout the 20th century President Jimmy Carter signed a treaty to return the area to Panama on December 31, 1999 The 48 mile international waterway allows ships to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, saving about 8,000 miles from journey around South America (Cape Horn)
What is Panama Canal
400
Were individuals opposed to the new waves of immigrants It was based on competition for resources. Competition for resources (jobs, living space, etc) created tension and division between racial and ethnic groups Some minority groups faced exclusion from employment or housing
What is Nativism
400
1898 – officially a war to protect the rights of Cubans who were being tormented by their Spanish rulers The controversial sinking of the battleship USS Maine brings the US into a war with Spain US attacks both Cuban and the Spanish colony of the Philippines in the Pacific After the US victory, Cuba is liberated and the Philippines becomes a US territory The US was able to prove its military power
What is Spanish American War
500
Created the central banking system in the USA and granted legal authority to issue legal tender. It now acts to regulate US monetary policy Due to an imbalance in balance of payments and a trade deficit, in 1971, the US moved away from the gold standard to fiat money; this move intended to prevent the devaluation of the dollar, foreign price gouges, and the depletion of US gold reserves to foreign countries
What is Federal Reserve Act of 1913
500
helped found the NAACP, he encouraged a liberal arts education for African American civil rights leaders
What is W.E.B. Dubois
500
Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves here and two other locations to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. In 1922 and 1923, the leases became the subject of a sensational investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies. Before the Watergate scandal, this scandal was regarded as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics
What is Teapot Dome Scandal
500
the submission of a proposed public measure or actual statute to a direct popular vote, this allows the people to have more influence on the decision making process
What is Referendum
500
Cause: was a reaction not only to the communist revolution in Russia, but to the influx of immigrants into the United States in the years leading up to WWI Effects: deportation of many communist and socialists
What is Red Scare