Periods 1-3
What are higher taxes?
What is popular sovereignty?
This physically linked the east & the west coasts by train.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This government initiave from Franklin Roosevelt saw the creation of hundreds of "alphabet soup" agencies to fix the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This natural resources has been a point of conflict between the United States and Middle Eastern nations since the 1970s.
These crops were critical to the development of the Middle economies.
What are cereal crops?
In this type of slavery, slaves are considered property and do not receive any rights.
What is chattel slavery?
This nickname was given to the late 18th century by Mark Twain due to the societal problems in the US underneath the superficial success.
What is the Gilded Age?
A key characteristic of the 1920s, this refers to the belief that spending on wants instead of needs can bring happiness or social prestige.
What is consumerism?
Signed by FDR, this gave veterans the opportunity to go to college, start a business, or buy a home on the government's dime.
What is the GI Bill?
In this post-feudal economic system, colonies serve two purposes: provide manufactured goods & a market for the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
What is the American System?
Monopolies formed in these two ways: either by buying out your competitors or by owning all steps of the production process.
What are horizontal and vertical integration?
Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and Jacob Riis were examples of these as their publications pressured political officials to enact societal & economic changes.
What are muckrakers?
Authorized under President Eisenhower, this linked cities to each other and to suburbs.
What is the interstate highway system?
This business structure allowed for non-explorers to fund expeditions and share any profits achieved.
What are joint-stock companies?
This failed legislative initiative would have banned slavery in all territories acquired in the Mexican Cession.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This inclusive national labor union declined in membership due to their association with anarchy & socialism after the Haymarket Square Riots.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
This term refers to the use of credit to purchase stock in companies.
What is buying on margin?
This condition characterized by ungrowing wages and increasing inflation rates was a key feature of the 1970s economy.
What is stagflation?
According to the Constitution, only Congress has the power to regulate this type of trade.
What is interstate trade?
Aside from its effects on slavery, Eli Whitney's cotton gin utilized this manufacturing process that became extremely common among mass produced goods.
What are interchangeable parts?
Published by the Populist Party, this advocated for the direct election of senators, bimetallism, and an 8-hour workday.
What is the Omaha Platform?
This system, passed during World War II, made it easier for Mexican immigrants to come to the US to fill southwestern agriculture jobs left behind by men who joined the military.
What is the Bracero Program?
This industry has replaced the manufacturing industry as the primary means of economic production in the United States since 1980.
What is the service industry?