gilded age
To cover something in gold but the inside is not gold
What is Gilded?
"Clickbait", presenting little to no ligitimate news.
What is Yellow Journalism?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is Imperialism?
Women who cut their hair short, wore short skirts, put on makeup, and drank and smoked in public.
What are Flappers?
October 29th, 1929, the stock market crashed, driving the American economy into the great depression.
What was Black Tuesday?
A federal land grant that allowed citizens who were 21 and the head of their family to claim 160 acres of land in the west as long as they improved the land.
What is The Homestead Act?
-A social movement led by protestant clergymen.
- Ban on alcoholic beverages
-safer working conditions
-regulations on big business
-an increased focus on charity and helping those who were less fortunate
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
The U.S. would remain free from forming relationships with other nations and remain neutral in global conflicts.
What is Isolationism?
A major bribery and corruption case in the 1920s, involving high-ranking government officials, oil companies, and bribery.
What was The Teapot Dome?
-Millions of acres of farmland became useless which led to poverty levels and inflated food prices.
- Big clouds of dust and sand were carried by the wind.
- Hundreds of thousands migrated from the Midwest.
What was the Dust Bowl?
Linked the east to the west, made transporting goods faster and more efficient.
What is The Transcontinental Railroad?
Ran as the presidential candidate for the Bull Moose party, which split the republican vote, leading to Woodrow Wilson's presidency.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
-U.S. Naval captain
- Wrote "The influence of sea power upon history"
- Led to the expansion of the modern Navy
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
First to fly the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris.
Who was Charles Lindberg?
- Created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
-Authorized loans to large businesses that suffered losses
-Tried creating new jobs out of public work
What was the Hoover Administration?
Reservations were broken up and distributed into individual families. 1887.
What is The Dawes Act?
- 18th Amendment banned it
- 21st Amendment repealed it
What is the Temperance Movement?
The De Lome Letter and U.S.S Maine
What are the causes of the Spanish-American War?
John Scopes, a substitute teacher, was put on trial for teaching evolution.
Lawyer Clarence Darrow(evolution) vs. lawyer William Jennings Bryan(creationism).
What was the Scopes trial?
Intended to provide relief, reform, and recovery
-Created worker programs
-Reformed banking and business practices
-Instituted new government programs
- Promoted economic recovery
What was the New Deal?
Large companies that controlled an industry or sector, giving them the ability to control the prices of the goods and services provided.
What is a monopoly?
- Conservation of natural resources
- Control of corporations
- Consumer protection
What is Roosevelts square deal?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
-An influx of African Americans moving to urban areas in the North.
-Many were escaping racism, sharecropping, and tenant farming in the South in search of better economic opportunities.
What was The Great Migration?
-Tariffs
-Stock Market Speculation
-Bank Failures
-The monetary policy of the Federal Reserve System
What are the causes of the Great Depression?