HISTORY

Freedman’s Bureau when

1865

Black Codes when

(early Reconstruction):

Manifest Destiny when

1840s

Pacific Railway Act when

1862

Dawes Act when

1887

Plessy v. Ferguson when

1896

Robber barons when

gilded age

Gospel of Wealth when

(gilded age):

Social Darwnism when

(gilded age):

Omaha Platform when

1892

Coxey's Army when

1894

Direct Primary when

1903

Settlement house movement when

1800s

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire when

(1911):

19th Amendment when

1919

Margaret Sanger when

 early to mid 20th century

White man’s burden when

late 1800s, early 1900s

Roosevelt Corollary  early to mid twentieth century

(1904):

Fourteen Points  

1918

War Industries Board when

1917

National Civil Liberties Bureau when

1917

Red Scare when

(1919-1920):

KKK when

(1920s):

Bonus Army when

1932

Agricultural Adjustment Act when

1933

Huey Long when

depression

Social Security Act when

1935

John Maynard Keynes when

(depression):

John Maynard Keynes who

 British economis, believed spending money was how to get out of a depression,

John Maynard Keynes cause

 the great depression, when nothing seemed to be helping

John John Maynard Keynes impact

an explanation for why government spending and intervention could help fight unemployment and economic depression (new deal),  shift from laissez-faire to government responsibility

Social Security Act what

 law signed by Roosevelt as apart of second new deal, created a system to help the elderly and the unemployed, workers and employers paid a small payroll tax

Social Security Act cause

 the Great Depression left millions jobless and many older Americans had no savings and critics pressed FDR to do more

social security act impact

shift from the 1930s belief in laissez-faire government to federal govt protecting citizens, foundation for modern welfare state

Huey Long what

 Louisiana politician, was a critic of FDRl from the left, arguing it didn't do enough

huey long cause

Freedmen's Bureau what

Federal agency helping formerly enslaved people with education, jobs, and healthcare

freedmans bueru cause

End of the Civil War and Reconstruction

freedmans bueru impact

One of the first federal civil rights efforts; it ended in 1872 and discrimination continued until the Civil Rights Movement

Black codes what

Southern laws controlling freed people (limited court access and property, forced labor contracts)

Black codes cause

Southern states trying to keep control over freed people

Black codes impact

Showed slavery's end didn't end oppression, so the North pushed for the 14th Amendment

Manifest Destiny what

Belief the U.S. was meant to expand to the Pacific

Manifest Destiny cause

Desire to spread democracy, culture, and capitalism

Manifest Destiny impact

Texas annexation and the Mexican-American War, then fights over slavery in new land and the Civil War

Pacific Railway Act what

Law that authorized railroad companies to build the first transcontinental railroad, using land grants and loans from Congress

Pacific Railway Act cause

Need to connect East and West

Pacific Railway Act impact

Faster travel and trade, but Native land was taken and the buffalo killed, leading to conflict and reservations

Dawes Act what

Broke tribal land into individual plots and sold the rest to whites

Dawes Act cause

Desire to force Natives to adopt farming, and settlers and railroads wanted land

Dawes Act impact

Natives lost millions of acres; part of the push to assimilate them

Plessy v. Ferguson what

Supreme Court case (Homer Plessy) ruling "separate but equal" segregation legal

Plessy v. Ferguson cause

Louisiana segregation law and Plessy's protest

Plessy v. Ferguson impact

Made Jim Crow legal, led to the NAACP, later overturned by Brown v. Board

Robber barons what

Rich industrialists like Carnegie and Rockefeller

Robber barons cause

Industrial growth, monopolies, and controlling prices

Robber barons impact

Public concern about monopolies and worker abuse, leading to unions and the Progressive movement

Gospel of Wealth what

Carnegie's essay saying the rich should use money to help society

Gospel of Wealth cause

Growing gap between rich and poor

Gospel of Wealth impact

Justified wealth, but charity didn't fix low wages or unsafe work, so unions grew

Social Darwinism what

"Survival of the fittest" applied to people