Social Guide Flashcards by Nikkesh Jegannathan

Mass Culture

Shared entertainment and products that created common experiences across the nation

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Jim Crow Laws

Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South

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Plessy v. Ferguson

Supreme Court case that legalized segregation under ‘separate but equal’

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Segregation

Separation of people based on race

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Lynching

Violent killings used to terrorize African Americans

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Booker T. Washington

Leader who believed economic success would lead to equality

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W.E.B. Du Bois

Leader who demanded immediate civil rights and helped found the NAACP

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Debt Peonage

System forcing workers to stay in debt and labor unfairly

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Black Wall Street

Successful Black business district destroyed in the Tulsa Race Massacre

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Progressives

Reformers who wanted to improve government and society

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Muckrakers

Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems

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Teddy Roosevelt

Progressive president known for trustbusting and conservation

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Bully Pulpit

Using the presidency to influence public opinion

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Trustbusting

Breaking up powerful monopolies

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Meat Inspection Act

Law ensuring meat safety after The Jungle

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Pure Food and Drug Act

Law preventing unsafe food and false labeling

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Jane Addams

Founder of Hull House who helped immigrants

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Child Labor

Use of children in factories, which Progressives tried to end

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16th Amendment

Allowed federal income tax

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17th Amendment

Direct election of senators

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18th Amendment

Banned alcohol

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19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

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Spanish-American War

War that expanded U.S. power overseas

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Yellow Journalism

Exaggerated news used to influence public opinion

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U.S.S. Maine

Explosion led Americans to support war with Spain

Treaty of Paris

Ended Spanish-American War and gave U.S. new territories

Imperialism

Policy of extending a nation’s power overseas

Open Door Policy

Policy calling for equal trade access in China

Panama Canal

Waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Big Stick Diplomacy

Roosevelt’s policy of using force when necessary

Dollar Diplomacy

Using money to influence foreign countries

Missionary Diplomacy

Wilson’s policy of supporting democracy abroad

Militarism

Building up armed forces

Alliances

Agreements between nations for mutual defense

Nationalism

Strong pride in one’s country

Imperialism WWI

Competition for colonies

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Event that sparked World War I

Trench Warfare

Fighting from trenches with deadly stalemates

No Man’s Land

Area between trenches

Zimmerman Note

Germany asked Mexico to attack the U.S.

Lusitania

Ship sunk by Germany that angered Americans

Selective Service Act

Drafted men into the military

Propaganda

Media used to influence public opinion

Espionage and Sedition Acts

Laws limiting anti-war speech

Treaty of Versailles

Peace treaty that punished Germany

League of Nations

Organization meant to prevent future wars

Red Scare

Fear of communism in the U.S.

Quota System

Limited number of immigrants allowed

Prohibition

Nationwide ban on alcohol

Speakeasies

Illegal clubs selling alcohol

Bootleggers

People who sold illegal alcohol

Organized Crime

Criminal groups that grew during Prohibition

Scopes Trial

Trial over teaching evolution

Fundamentalism

Literal interpretation of the Bible

Science

Support for evolution and scientific ideas

Flappers

Young women who challenged traditional norms

Urban Sprawl

Cities spreading outward due to cars

Harlem Renaissance

Cultural movement celebrating Black art and music

NAACP

Organization fighting racial discrimination through courts

UNIA

Organization promoting Black pride and independence

Babe Ruth

Baseball superstar of the 1920s

Helen Wills

Dominant women’s tennis champion

Charles Lindbergh

First solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic

George Gershwin

Composer who blended jazz and classical music

Georgia O’Keeffe

Modern artist known for flower paintings

Sinclair Lewis

Writer who criticized American society

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author who described the Jazz Age

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poet who wrote about independence

Ernest Hemingway

Writer known for simple style and war themes

Jean Toomer

Writer of Cane about African American life

Langston Hughes

Poet of everyday Black life and pride

Zora Neale Hurston

Writer who used African American folklore

Claude McKay

Poet who protested racism and promoted Black pride

Duke Ellington

Jazz composer and bandleader

Louis Armstrong

Jazz trumpeter who transformed jazz

Bessie Smith

Famous blues singer

Cab Calloway

Jazz singer known for scat singing

The Jazz Singer

First movie with sound

Steamboat Willie

First successful Mickey Mouse cartoon

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