Gilded Age
A single seller controlling the entire supply of a unique product or service.
What is a Monopoly
He felt that African American's had waited long enough, and should demand equality immediately.
Who is W. E. B. DeBois?
He wrote The Influence of Sea Power on History.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
These women challenged traditional norms by cutting their hair, wearing less clothing and smoking in public.
What are flappers?
Buying stocks with borrowed funds, hoping to get rich quick.
What is buying on the margin?
No government regulation of business.
What is laissez faire?
This book exposed the horrors in the meat packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
Teddy Roosevelt recruited ranchers, college students and Mexican laborers into this group, to invade Cuba.
What are the Rough Riders?
He created the assembly line to produce automobiles faster.
Who is Henry Ford?
This New Deal program insures bank deposits up to $27,000.
What is the FDIC?
He invested in the Bessemer Steal Process.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Ida B Wells fought for this.
What is civil rights?
He wanted to annex Hawaii to take control of the pineapple industry.
Who is Sanford B. Dole?
The movement of African Americans from the sharecropping south, to the west and north for better opportunities.
What is the Great Migration?
This law forced Mexican Americans to be deported to Mexico, because of the false argument that they were "stealing jobs."
What is the Mexican Repatriation Act?
The political boss who ran NYC politics.
Who is Boss Tweed?
This amendment banned the production and sale of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism?
An awakening of African American culture, including art, literature, and music.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This region of the United States was most effected by the dust bowl.
What are the central plains.
This law sought to assimilate Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
This third political party was supported by farmers, and wanted the silver standard.
What is the Populist Party?
The four territories that the United States gained after the Spanish American War.
Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and The Philippines
A group of new writers who became disillusioned with human society after witnessing the horrors of WWI.
Who is the Lost Generation?
This law raised a 67% tariff on all importins into the United States, and brought all international trade to a halt, increasing the damage of the Great Depression.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Act?