The Gilded Age
The period in US History from the 1870s to the 1900s characterized by political corruption, an explosion of industrial manufacturing, and social chaos.
What is the Gilded Age?
Characterized by country-wide political activism, economic reform, and political reform.
What is the Progressive Era?
An economic system wherein tenets are given a piece of land to cultivate and a part of their crops is used as rent payment.
What is sharecropping?
The period immediately after the Civil War, lasting from 1865-1877. This era consisted of rebuilding the South, the rise of the KKK and a plethora of Civil Rights legislation.
What is Reconstruction?
What event started the First World War?
What is the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
A political organization run by a party that manages elections, reward supporters, and gets rid of opponents.
What is a Political Machine?
The first Progressive president.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Massacre of Native Americans on December 29th, 1890 in North Dakota. Soldiers of the United States' Army shot and killed 90 Native Americans.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
A hate group started by former Confederates.
What is the Klu Klux Klan?
The general in charge of US forces in Europe during World War 1
Who is General John "Black Jack" Pershing?
The robber barons or captains of industry in charge of railroads, steel, banking and oil.
Who are Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller?
This book is known for its exposing the horrific conditions in meat processing plants and inspiring legislation that would become the Meat Inspection Act and the Food Drug Act
What is The Jungle?
Black farmers who moved west during the Great Migration to farm.
What are exodusters?
The electoral compromise in which Rutherford B. Hayes was gifted the presidency in exchange for an end to Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This telegram is what convinced both the US public and government to declare war on Germany.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
A party, mostly consisting of farmers, that aimed to curtail corporate power.
What is the Populist Party?
The amendment that gacve women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The belief that the United States had the right to expand its borders and spread its influence from sea to shining sea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Free Citizens Vote
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments?
Woodrow Wilson's plan for a post-war world. This included the establishment and US joining of the League of Nations.
What are Wilson's 14 Points?
During the Panic of 1893, this man bailed out the US government at the behest of the President.
Who is JP Morgan?
Large movement of Black Southerners to northern industrial centers.
What is the Great Migration?
Schools built throughout the west designed to assimilate Native Americans by forcing them to reject their culture.
Lincoln's amnesty plan that included having 10% of the Confederate State populations swear an oath of allegiance to the Union.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
The treaty ending World War 1.
What is the Treaty of Versailles (1919)?