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What officially put an end to Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B Hayes
They did not use the position of the federal government to enact any major programs or laws
They let big business and tycoons bring the nation forward.
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
They often sided with big business.
Which ethnic group was discriminated against the most during the Gilded Age?
The Chinese were the most discriminated group during the Gilded Age.
stated in Gilded Age Notes 3
Jim Crow
What often split the workers during the Gilded Age from uniting?
Racial differences
Language barriers
MONEY
plutocracy was the government of that time period.
Vanderbilt railroads
improved transportation
connected the country
Captains of Industry helped their workers and donated
gave back money to the community.
Robber Barons were more selfish and didn’t care about the safety of their workers
swindled money.
When a business has full control over industry and different substances.
The rich thrive and survive, while the poor die out from different causes.
The Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890
Yellow Dog Contract
John Pierpont “J.P.” Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
John Davidson “J.D.” Rockefeller
The Populist Party was a left-wing, socialist party in the late 19th century that advocated for farmers and worker’s rights.
The American Federation of Labor (AF of L) was only for skilled workers.
People were pushed away from their homes due to warfare and famine (as was the case with Ireland and Germany)
the new economic opportunities in the major cities and farms of America pulled people to the US. also came for religious freedom and the American Dream.
They were needed for work in factories; industry in America was growing at this time.
Melting pot = Everyone is mixed together and cultures “melt” into each other
Salad Bowl = Everyone is mixed together but you can still see the things that set people apart (culture)
Urbanization
What helped immigrants by providing them services and activities to adjust to American life?
Hull House
Reservations; moved them west of the Mississippi River.
Forced Assimilation
The general goals of the Progressives were improving social problems, reforming local governments, improving labor conditions, democratizing the political process, and regulating big business
Investigative journalists who wrote about corruption in business and politics, hoping to bring about reform
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Lincoln Steffens,
Ida B. Wells
Settlement house movement
women activist
temperance movement
women's suffrage
workplace safety
environmental reform
Went into office after previous president McKinnely was assassinated
Big Stick Diplomacy
Trusting Busting
Roosevelt Corollary
leading America out of the Gilded Age unlike the Forgotten Presidents
He liked them but believed that they should behave more responsibly. (Trust busting)
Innovating standards (higher standards for minorities) for American citizen
limited the role over big businesses
George Washington
Imperialism
USS Maine
Exaggerated stories presented by newspapers as truth
What factors brought the U.S. into the Spanish-American War?
USS Maine
Yellow Journalism
intercepted letter
sympathy for revolution
jingoism
nationalism
Roosevelt Corollary
Power
spread democracy
spread christianity
economic gain
political gain
social darwinism
“white man burden”
Big Stick (Roosevelt)→A strong military can help America achieve her goals
Moral (Wilson)→Human rights>>Conquering territory
Dollar (Taft)→Economic influence can help America achieve her goal
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Benefits included introduction of new healthcare technologies, made it easier to travel internationally.
Austria-Hungary and Serbia
Sinking of the Luisitainia 1917
Fighting in trenches
Woodrow Wilson
Isolationism
Interventionism
Internationalism
The draft during WWI where men between 18 and 45 were required to register for war
To prevent a worldwide conflict like WWI from happening again
Didn’t work
Stopped progress
Entire populations were affected
Increased Govt. over the lives of the people,
End of old empires and creation of new ones,
Social changes to the U.S, Women and Black people
Roaring 20s
Credit / Installment Plans
Women could vote (1919)
Red Scare
Race Riots
Great Migration
Flapper
Fundamentalists and Modernists
Higher crime rate associated with the transport of illegal alcohol
the rise of speakeasies and bootleggers and gangs
Herbert Hoover
The stock market crash (Black Thursday + Tuesday)
Bull = Stock prices go up
Bear = Stock prices go down
Big businesses raised their tariffs which caused Europe to raise their tariffs which ultimately ruined America's economy due to the restriction on international trade
resources were harder to get.
Drove many into debt and poverty, starving, and without jobs.
24.9%
Neighborhoods with houses made of scrap lumber and packing boxes, aka Hoovervilles
Rugged Individualism
western third of Kansas, southeastern Colorado, the Oklahoma Panhandle, the northern two-thirds of the Texas Panhandle, and northeastern New Mexico (Great Plains + Mid West)
New Deal
Relief
Recovery
Reform
Fireside Chats
Progressive Era
Gave too much power to the government and hurt the economy.
Don’t trust the stock market or rely on it
Appeasement
Great Britain and Switzerland
To prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its military actions in Southeast Asia.
To stop Japanese espionage
Americans thought the Japanese were spying on them and relaying information back to Japan, leading up to internment camps.
Bataan Death March
What country did the D-Day beach landings happen in?
France
Guerilla Warfare
A secret research project to produce the first nuclear weapons
The atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
A combo of the New Deal and war economy from WWII
GI Bill
Cold War
Certain European countries were provided aid from US to secure them from the spread of communism
US influence in those countries
There was a large economic boom due to WWII, but there were also a lot of nuclear concerns (Nuclear Fear)
On top of that, people had to deal with conformity, nuclear families, etc.
A span of time for countries to race for atmospheric control
the United States vs. USSR
Mutually Assured Destruction
Alger Hiss, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Roaring 20s
Social: Due to conformity and the end of WWII, many families began to have families, primarily children
Economic: pushed for the construction and lower prices for housing, producing more quantity than quality
Rock ‘n’ Roll
This policy was to keep societal ideals to maintain in one country, and not invade other ones to enact more of that ideal.
NO communism
North Korea Invaded South Korea June 24, 1950
U.S. troops invade at Inchon
Pyongyang falls to the UN forces
Armistice between North and South Korea March 1953
It was unconstitutional to separate schools based on race, so schools became integrated
“separate but equal is inherently unequal”
MLK wanted to live in a society where all races can live together and free
Malcolm X wanted to keep races separated for their survival.
In an effort to detect communists within the federal govt, President Truman established the?
Housing Un-American Activities Committee (or Loyalty Review Board, check later)
To provide security against the Soviet Union so communism couldn’t take over Europe
Israel was a safe haven for Jewish people since they were driven out of countries and had no homeland of their own so they were introduced back to their original homeland, Israel.
Palestinians are the Arabs who are living alongside the Jewish people in the same country; conflict between them because they want the land to themselves because they’ve been living there longer than the current jewish immigrants.