Gilded Age
Early 20th c.
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Early Civil Rights
100
This industrialist made his fortune in oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
100
This organization grew very popular in the 1920s with their message of hate toward blacks, jews, catholic, and socialists.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
100
This organization was created after WWI to prevent another global conflict.
What is the League of Nations
100
The Spanish American war and the US acquisition of Hawaii and the Philippines are examples of this concept.
What is imperialism
100
He helped found the NAACP and campaigned for immediate equality for African Americans
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
200
Called a great philanthropist, this industrialist made his fortune in steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
200
This term refers to the widespread fear of communism that pervaded America in the early 1900s.
What is the First Red Scare
200
The US entered WWI after the sinking of this passenger ship and the interception of this note.
What are the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram
200
This was Theodore Roosevelt's diplomatic policy.
What is Big Stick
200
This court case upheld "separate but equal" which allowed for racially segregated public accommodations.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
300
This term refers to ruthless industrial capitalists who oppressed workers to amass wealth.
What is a Robber Baron
300
These immigrants came from Western and Northern Europe, practiced Protestantism, and often possessed skills and some wealth.
Who are old immigrants
300
Americans practiced this type of culture in the 1920s when they spent like never before and bought home appliances (often on credit).
What is consumerism
300
Meaning hands off, this economic policy practiced in the 1920s states the government should not regulate business
What is laissez faire
300
He founded the Tuskegee Institute and campaigned for gradual equality and vocational education for African Americans.
Who is Booker T Washington
400
This political boss of Tammany Hall used election fraud to maintain power.
Who is Boss Tweed
400
This term refers to a belief that native-born inhabitants of a country are better than immigrants.
What is Nativism
400
This court cases centered on the controversy of teaching evolution and pitted traditionalism against modernism.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial
400
Trust busting, conservation, and consumer protection were hallmarks of this president.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
400
This term refers to racial segregation policies in post-Reconstruction south such as poll taxes and literacy tests.
What is Jim Crow segregation
500
This term refers to hard-working and innovative capitalists who created jobs with their business empires.
What is a Captain of Industry
500
These reformers sought to expose political and business corruption with exposes and journalism.
Who are the muckrakers
500
This refers to the group of artists such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald who emerged after WWI who were fed up with governments and questioned the progress of technology.
What is the Lost Generation.
500
Harding campaigned on this platform that promised a return to social conditions before WWI.
What is the Return to Normalcy
500
He supported the ideas of black nationalism and pan-Africanism and encouraged African Americans to return to their homelands.
Who is Marcus Garvey