Gilded Age
Who coined the term "Gilded Age?"
Mark Twain
Was the progressive movement mostly urban or rural?
Urban
What were the 3 "R's" in Roosevelt's plan to help the nation recover?
Relief, recovery, and reform
What was the US' foreign policy after WW1?
Isolationism
What was the organization that WEB DuBois founded?
NAACP
What was the government's economic approach?
"Laissez - Faire"
What were the journalists that exposed corruption called?
Muckrakers
What is the day that the stock market crashed called?
Black Tuesday
The end of WW1 helped trigger what period of creative expression and flourishing culture?
Harlem Renissance
What was a difference between the views of WEB DuBois and Booker T Washington on the topic of education?
DuBois - Believed in higher education
Washington - Not so much
Who were some of the captains of industry and robber barons?
John D Rockefeller; JP Morgan; Andrew Carnegie; Cornelius Vanderbilt
Who were the progressive era presidents?
Roosevelt; Wilson; Taft
What was one factor that created consumer dept that contributed to the Great Depression?
Buying on credit; Buying on margin
What is a reason the US used an atomic bomb on Japan in WW2?
Costly invasion; Assumed Japan would fight until the end; Save American citizen lives; Quick end to the war
What are trusts?
Group of seperate companies put under control of a single managing board.
Who was the socialist party's presidential candidate in 1912?
Eugene Debs
What were the encampments established by homeless people called?
Hoovervilles
Who were the 2 great powers that emerged after WW2?
Soviet Union and the US
What was the Knights of Labor and what event contributed to its downfall?
What were the goals of progessives when it came to democracy?
Giving the government back to the people; Increasing voter participation; Ending corruption of political machines
What New Deal program extablished a national minimum wage?
National Recovery Administration