Gilded Age
What's it called when one company controls an entire market?
Monopoly
What did the Panama Canal do?
Created a route between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
What music became famous during the 1920s?
Jazz
Name one of the countries that "New Immigrants" in the 1880s-1890s came from.
The New Deal
Name 2 of the 4 robber barons we discussed in class.
Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller
Name two territories we took from Spain after winning the Spanish-American War.
Puerto Rico, Cuba, Philippines, Guam
Describe the Harlem Renaissance.
A rebirth of Black culture and arts, centered in New York City.
What is a muckraker?
A journalist who exposes abusive business practices.
What was the Alphabet Soup?
A bunch of new organizations created by FDR to help recover from the Great Depression
This philosophy can be described as "survival of the fittest"
Social Darwinism
What was it called when newspapers made sensationalized headlines to sell more papers?
Yellow Journalism
What were women dressed in a modern way and defied gender expectations called?
Flappers
Which group of people created the "Granger" movement to protest businesses?
Farmers
Name 2 of the main causes of the Great Depression.
Overproduction, stock market crash, buying too much on credit, risky stocks, farm collapse
What's it called when the government does not interfere in the economy or business?
Laissez-faire
What did the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine say?
The United States has the right to intervene in Latin American countries
What was the trend of the US economy during the 1920s?
Big economic growth
What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act do?
Stopped the formation of monopolies
What was Herbert Hoover's philosophy?
Rugged individualism (government should not help people)
Why did Mark Twain call it the Gilded Age?
Because things looked covered in gold on the outside, but were bad on the inside.
What was the famous rallying cry after a US ship was blown up in Havana harbor?
Remember the Maine!
What is considered a main cause of the Harlem Renaissance?
The Great Migration
What did W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington disagree on?
How to achieve racial equality during the segregation period
What were the homeless encampments during the Great Depression called?
Hoovervilles