Content Quiz #3 Flashcards
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Gilded Age
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- term coined by mark twain; satirized the period’s economic paradox
- 1870s-1890s
- between reconstruction and progressive era
- marked by rapid economic growth, industrialisation, prosperity only for the rich, vast wealth disparities, poverty, corruption, and labour exploitation
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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- 1890
- passed as a response to industrialisation
- aimed to curb unchecked economic power of large companies
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Wounded Knee Massacre, SD
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- 1890; “final episode” of the indian wars
- deadliest mass shooting in american history
- over 300 lakota people (attempting to migrate to canada to escape cultural persecution) were shot and killed by american soldiers
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Yosemite National Park
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- 1890
- first american national park
- result of progressivism and increasing support for environmental conservation
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Spanish American War
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- 1898
- marked the beginnings of american imperialism
- added guam, puerto rico, and the philippines to the usa
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Annexation of Hawaii
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- 1898
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WWI
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- 1914-1918
- assassination of franz ferdinand to treaty of versailles
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Roaring Twenties
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- 1920s
- rapid shifts in american culture (socially, economically)
- flappers and sheiks, consumerism, paying on credit, speakeasies
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19th Amendment
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- 1920
- recognises women’s right to vote
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Schenck v. US
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- if speech, during wartime, poses a “clear and present danger” to the public, then the govt can censor it
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Espionage & Sedition Acts
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- espionage act: criminalised interfering or attempting to undermine the US war efforts
- sedition act: imposed harsh penalties for dissenting speech, including speech abusing the US govt, the flag, the Constitution, an the military
- very clearly directed at socialists, pacifists, and anti-war activists
- infringed on americans’ first amendment right to free speech
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Dawes Severalty Act
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- 1887
- essentially a new version of the homestead act
- permitted the federal govt to divide the lands of any native tribe
- federal govt could grant 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land to each head of family
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Ida Tarbell
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- muckraker; targeted monopolies & trusts with unchecked economic power
- history of standard oil
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Ida B. Wells
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- mudraker; exposed the horrors and truths about the practice of lynching
- the red record
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Upton Sinclair
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- mudraker; exposed truths about meatpacking industry and the safety of food/poor sanitary conditions of processing plants
- the jungle
- resulted in the passing of the pure food & drug act (required ingredients to be labelled on foods)
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Jacob Riis
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- mudraker; photojournalist; revealed the realities of horrible conditions in tenement housing in urban areas
- how the other half lives
- resulted in the tenement house act 1901: set higher, better standards for conditions in tenement housing
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16th Amendment
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- progressive federal income tax
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17th Amendment
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- senators must be selected by direct election by voters
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18th Amendment
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- prohibited manufacture, sale, transportation of alcohol
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Robber Barons
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- aka “captains of industry”; the rich people during the 2nd industrial revolution
- Vanderbilt (railroads)
- Carnegie (steel)
- Duke (tobacco)
- Rockefeller (oil)
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Populist Party
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- political party formed in 1890
- sought to represent the rights of workers (initially focused on farmers, later included all workers) in regional and federal elections
- William Jennings Bryan ran 3x for president; gave the “cross of gold” speech to advocate for bimetallism
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Tammany Hall
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- famous political machine in new york
- machine boss: william tweed
- citizens’ immediate problems would be addressed in return for their political support in elections; often, workers’ jobs were dependent on the political machines and their bosses
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Wilmington Race Massacre
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- 1898
- white supremacists launch the only successful coup in american history
- in response to growing fears of black political power
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Hull House
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- Jane Addams’ settlement house, opened in 1889
- helped the working class by providing social servies, child daycare, evening classes, gym facilities, free healthcare
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Fort Riley, Kansas
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- location of first documented case of spanish influenza in the usa
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Niagara Movement
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- 1905
- campaign led by W. E. B. Du Bois; departed from Booker T. Washington’s idea of accommodation that placed the burden of civil rights on Black people
- advocated for a “Declaration of Principles”; called for immediate political, social, and economic equality for black americans
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Wisconsin Idea
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- political system created and advocated by Robert La Follette (“Fighting Bob”)
- embodied many progressive ideals
- bob hired experts to advise him on improving conditions in wisconsin
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The Great Depression
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- 1930s
- economy was largely repaired through the New Deal
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WWII
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- 1939-1945
- German invasion of Poland to Victory Japan day
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Civil Rights Era
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- 1960s
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New Deal Programmes
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- Social Security Act
- WPA infrastructure programme (roads, bridges)
- REA (rural electrification act, federal loans to instal electrical distribution systems to rural areas)
- Tennessee Valley Authority (hydroelectric dams, regional govt)
- CCC (public park stuff)
- NRA (regulate industry, labour, prices during the GD)
- AAA (subsidies on lowered crop production, higher crop prices)
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Double V Campaign
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- campaign by black Americans to win victory over the enemy overseas AND victory over racism at home
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Hoovervilles
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- shanty towns consisting of people facing homelessness due to the GD
- Hoover, due to his resistance to govt aid to the ppl, became synonymous with the Depression’s woes
