Progressivism - ✔✔✔Use of government to address reforms
Dust Bowl - ✔✔✔Farmers who moved from the midwest because of droughts
13th Amendment - ✔✔✔Abolished slavery
14th Amendment - ✔✔✔Everyone born in the US were citizens, that all citizens were entilted to equal rights
15th Amendment - ✔✔✔Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race
16th Amendment - ✔✔✔Authorized Congress to levy an income tax
17th Amendment - ✔✔✔Gave people the power to elect their own senators
18th Amendment - ✔✔✔Prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol
19th Amendment - ✔✔✔Gave women the right to vote
Settlement Houses - ✔✔✔Designed as a welfare agency for needy families; provided social and educational opportunities for
working class people in the neighborhood as well as improving some of the conditions caused by poverty
Disarmament treaties - ✔✔✔U.S. and other countries will cut back on military size and weapons during WWI
Australian ballot - ✔✔✔Originated in australia in 1850s; voting method in which voter's choices are confidential
Kellogg-Briand Pact - ✔✔✔Agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one
another
sharecropping - ✔✔✔A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone
else in return for a small portion of the crop
, Neutrality Acts - ✔✔✔4 laws passed in the late 1930s that were designed to keep the US out of international incidents
Jim Crow Laws - ✔✔✔Laws designed to enforce segregation
Treaty of Versailles - ✔✔✔Treaty that ended WWI; Germany had to pay Britain and France, give Rhineland to France, and admit
war guilt; not passed by US senate
Knights of Labor - ✔✔✔Labor Union that wanted to unionize all workers; pushed for an 8 hour workday, gender equality, and
abolition of child labor; opposed capitalism- socialists
American Federation of Labor - ✔✔✔A labor union for skilled workers only; convinced employers to only hire union workers;
accepted capitalism
Populists - ✔✔✔A party made up of farmers and laborers that wanted direct election of senators and an 8hr working day
Yellow Journalism - ✔✔✔Newspapers tried to "out sensationalize" each other by distorting or exaggerating to attract more
readers
USS Maine - ✔✔✔1898; A battleship that exploded in sank outside the coast of Cuba, killing about 260 Americans; US accused
Spain of deliberately blowing up the ships, however Spain denied any involvement
Haymarket Square incident - ✔✔✔Massive rally in Chicago of the union workers; anarchists spoke; police came in to break up
rally; someone throws a bomb, police fire; total of 10 people die
Pullman Strike - ✔✔✔A really big strike against Pullman Car Co. in 1894; lead by Eugene Debs; federal government had to get
involved
Social Darwinism - ✔✔✔19th century of belief that evolutionary ideas theorized by Charles Darwin could be applied to society.
new immigrants - ✔✔✔Immigrants form Southeastern Europe who came after the 1880s
old immigrants - ✔✔✔Immigrants who had come to the US before the 1880s from Britain, Germany, Ireland, and Scandenavia,
or Northern Europe