Unit 2
What is horizontal and vertical integration?
Horizontal is buying out your competitors. Vertical is buying out the production process.
What was The Jungle, and what federal law did it inspire?
What is imperialism?
The policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What movement was Langston Hughes part of?
The Harlem Renaissance.
What were some of the causes of the Great Despression?
Stock market speculation, bank failures, over production of goods, and a decline in consumer spending.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
The idea that the rich have an obligation to use their wealth for the benefit of society.
What is the Great Migration?
The movement of African Americans from the rural South to urban areas in the North and West between 1916 and 1970.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
It asserted the right of the U.S. to intervene in Latin American countries to maintain stability.
How did the KKK and the NAACP each push for change in society?
The KKK pushed with violence. The NAACP pushed within the legal system.
Why were some people upset with Herbert Hoover at the start of the Great Depression?
He did not want people to rely on the government and believed in "rugged individualism".
What was a big goal of the populist party? (hint: it becomes an amendment)
The direct election of senators by the people.
What were Jim Crow laws?
State and local statutes that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States from the late 19th century until the 1960s.
What is the Open Door Policy?
A U.S. diplomatic policy that aimed to ensure equal trading rights for all nations in China.
What is nativism?
Fear of New Immigrants & policy of favoring Old Immigrants & native-born Americans.
What is the job of the FDIC?
To insure people's money in the bank up to a certain amount. If the bank goes under, people get a certain amount back.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A federal law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States.
What was the Dawes Act of 1887?
The Dawes Act aimed to assimilate Native Americans by allotting them individual plots of land and promoting farming, undermining tribal sovereignty.
What was a key difference between the Treaty of Versailles and Wilson's Fourteen Points?
The Treaty of Versailles was much more harsh towards Germany and punished the heavily.
What is civil disobediance?
Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws or demands of a government, often in a nonviolent manner, as a form of protest.
Why did the court packing controversy happen in FDR's presidency?
Increased productivity, reduced employee turnover, and allowed workers to afford Ford cars.
That African Americans needed to be well educated and leaders of their community.
Name TWO of the five main causes of World War 1.
Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What pushed Americans to spend and buy more?
Advertising.
What is the role of Social Security?
It gives financial assistance to the elderly and disabled.