The 20th Century
What is the Gilded Age?
The sinking of this ship prompted the US's entry into WWI.
What is the Lusitania?
This act prevented Chinese nationals from immigrating to the US for ten years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These political organizations existed to ensure the members of a political party would retain power.
What is a political machine?
These tests, which measured the ability of a person to read, were used to keep African-Americans from voting.
What is literacy (a literacy test)?
A number of wealthy individuals in the US could be called this, referring to their tendency to donate money to charitable causes.
What is a philanthropist?
This term refers to an agreement between countries to defend one another.
What is an alliance?
This is the process by which an immigrant is expected to fully adapt to the culture of his or her new country.
What is assimilation?
This term refers to corruption, especially in politics.
What is graft?
These laws were used to keep African-Americans in the South impoverished and unable to vote.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This type of journalism was less concerned with facts than it was with selling newspapers.
What is yellow journalism?
This term refers to the build-up of military forces in order to display a country's strength.
What is militarism?
This philosophy prioritizes the needs and politics of native-born Americans over immigrants.
What is nativism?
This French term meaning 'hands off' referred to the way that the government interacted with businesses.
What is lassiez-faire?
This kind of tax had to be paid in order for someone to vote.
What is a poll tax?
This movement against the sale and consumption of alcohol reached its peak in the early 20th century.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This term refers to the domination of weaker countries by a stronger country.
What is imperialism?
Many immigrants to the US travelled here, the lowest part of a ship.
What is steerage?
This political movement wanted the US to stay out of the affairs of Europe.
What is isolationism?
This is the legally-mandated separation of people by race.
What is segregation?
This form of entertainment was very popular before the widespread adoption of the radio.
What is vaudeville?
This term refers to the belief in the inherent superiority of a country.
What is nationalism?
These organizations were used to provide social services for new immigrants and for the poor.
What is a Settlement House?
This act sought to reform government employment and rid it of its most corrupt elements.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
This type of clause was used to help poor, illiterate whites vote even when they couldn't meet the same qualifications as African-Americans.
What is a grandfather clause?