period of time from 1870-1900 that depicted America as have a booming economy and industry but extreme political corruption and a major disparity of wealth
What is the Gilded Age?
The MAIN reform that women wanted to accomplish in the early 20th century.
What is women's suffrage or the right to vote?
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is imperialism?
A rebellious woman in the 1920's, who changed her style of dress and behavior
What is a flapper?
Conflict between the United States and Spain over ownership of Cuba in 1898.
What is the Spanish American War?
This invention ended the open range and tamed the west by setting property boundaries.
What is barbed wire?
This amendment established the direct election of US Senators by the people rather than the state legislature?
What is the 17th amendment?
M.A.I.N.: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism
What are the 4 major causes of WWI?
A period in the 1920's when African Americans Created noteworthy works of art and literature
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The inventor that created the first telephone.
What is Alexander Graham Bell?
The idea that wealth was a measure of one’s inherent value and those who had it were declared the most “fit.”
What is social darwinism?
The first of the Progressive Presidents in the early 20th century
What is Theodore Roosevelt?
News paper writers who used sensationalistic headlines and stories to sell newspapers that ended up getting many Americans to push for war against Spain.
What are yellow journalists?
“Houses were shut tight, and cloth wedged around the doors and windows, but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables, in the dishes.”
-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
What is the Dust Bowl?
The process of buying other companies in the same industry and consolidating them under one company is known as:
What is Horizontal Integration?
The name of the first antitrust act that was not enforced for the first few decades.
What is the Sherman Anti Trust Act?
The name of Roosevelt’s political agenda that aimed to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and laborers.
What is the square deal?
The document that officially ended World War I after the signing of the armistice.
What is the treaty of Versailles?
FDR’s approach to the Great Depression that provided government aid to many sectors (areas) of the economy at once.
This led to the stock market crash in 1929.
What is overproduction/excessive buying on margin?
This allowed corporations to fix prices and regulate wages and prices.
What is the function of a trust?
Protecting social welfare, Promoting moral improvements, and Creating economic reform were all platforms for which group?
What are the Progressivists?
Name 2 new technological advances in weaponry during WWI
What are Machine guns, chemical warfare (Mustard gas), and barbed wire?
The most profound and long-lasting effect of the New Deal on American politics
What is increased the power of the President & federal government?
The reason why the United States was interested in acquiring Cuba as a territory in the late 1890’s
What are large U.S. investments in the Cuban sugar industry?