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What did Upton Sinclair do to spark a need for change in workers?
He wrote The Jungle.
What was the battle of the wounded knee?
The battle between U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota on December 29, 1890, resulted in the deaths of perhaps 300 Sioux men, women, and children.
What is the definition of nativism?
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What was the prohibition?
The prohibition was the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933.
What is laissez faire?
Abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.
How did the Granger movement help farmers?
Farmers's unions helped raise crop prices, so farmers could make more.
What were the rough riders?
A cavalry unit in which Theodore Roosevelt fought with during the Spanish-American War.
What is the origin and definition of communism?
A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
How was the economy affected by the prohibition?
One of the most profound effects of Prohibition was on government tax revenues. Before the prohibition, many states relied heavily on excise taxes in liquor sales to fund their budgets. With Prohibition in effect, that revenue was immediately lost.
What is Social Darwinism?
Social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.
How was the construction of the transcontinental railroad showing racism?
Chinese people were hired in place of Americans because they didn't want to do the backbreaking/hazardous parts of the railroad
What is a protectorate?
A state that is controlled and protected by another.
What does the Sacco-Vanzetti case have to do with nativism?
Sacco and Vanzetti are Italian immigrants who supposedly killed someone. They suffered the punishment even though there wasn't enough evidence to prove them, it was because they were immigrants.
What are bootleggers?
Bootlegging, is the illegal business of transporting (smuggling) alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. Smuggling is usually done to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular jurisdiction.
What are robber barons?
A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices.
What was the gilded age?
The time between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misdealings.
What is imperialism?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
Why was the Ku Klux Klan so popular in the early 1900's?
The KKK in the 1920s was demonstrative of a society coping with the effects of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration.
What was the 21st amendment?
It repealed the 18th amendment, but states had to decide if they were going to be a dry state.
What is yellow journalism?
Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
What was child labor, and working conditions for children during the gilded age?
The working conditions for children were dangerous, and hazardous, with low pay.
What is the Panama Canal?
An area of land in between North and South America that the US controlled since 1903, which boats can travel through.
What was the Red Scare?
The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This “scare” was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution.
Who was Al Capone, and what did he do?
In 1920 during the height of Prohibition, Al Capone's multi-million dollar Chicago operation in bootlegging, prostitution and gambling dominated the organized crime scene.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.