Semester Exam #1 Vocab

When the government has little to no restrictions on businesses or owners

• communism

• laissez-faire

• socialism

• legislation

policy designed to force Native Americans to assimilate on their reservations

• Dawes Act

• Dawes Plan

• Clayton Ant-trust Act

• Indian Wars

the theory that income disparity is normal and justified...in other words, rich/elite are supposed to be rich and poorer people are where they belong

• Socialism

• Imperialism

• Social Darwinism

• Nationalism

business practice used by Andrew Carnegie to gain massive amounts of wealth...he owned all phases of production

• fascism

• vertical integration

• margin buying

• horizontal integration

this legislation was designed to regulate businesses by breaking up monopolistic-style companies

• Sherman Anti-trust Act

• Dawes Act

• Pendleton Act

• Indian Reorganization Act

Policy designed to "police the Western Hemisphere" from outside nations from colonization or debt collection

• Open Door Policy

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Treaty of Paris

• League of Nations

Exposing the ills of society through newspapers

• Yellow Journalism

• Imperialism

• Open Door Policy

• Muckrakers

Three factors used to justify American involvement in the Spanish American War

• sinking of the USS Maine

• Yellow Journalism

• liberate Cuba

• extreme Nationalism

Controversial end of WWI that punished Germany harshly

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Ghent

• Treaty of Croissant

Exposed the meat-packing industry and led to the passing of the Meat Inspection & Pure Food and Drug Acts

• How the Other Half Live

• The Jungle

• Progress and Poverty

• Silent Spring