APUSH Gilded age-WW2

gilded age: Rutherford Hayes

• most significant act was to end reconstruction by withdrawing the last federal troops from the south

• attempted to establish honest government after the corrupt grant administration

• interested in spoils and patronage than reform

• approved the development of the modern american navy

Gilded age: the first democratic president since President James Buchanan

• Chester Arthur

• Grover Cleveland

• George Washington

• James Garfield

Gilded Age Time period

• 1877-1920

• 1930-1990

• 1800-1820

• 1776-1880

Guilded age: Pendleton Act

• Set up a civil service commission and created a system in which applicants for federal jobs would be selected based on their scores on a exam

• Retrieved 81 mil government land from cattle ranchers and railroad

• Ended Reconstruction

• Shot Abraham Lincoln

Gilded Age: Biggest consequence of the Election of 1896

• collapse of the populist party

• William McKinley's win

• showed the importance of having third party in an election

• gave birth to people's party

American Imperialism: Causes of the Spanish-American war

• Business interests

• Yellow journalism

• USS Maine Explodes

• Open door policy

American Imperialism: Effects of the Spanish American war

• Possession of Guam

• Cuba gains “independence”

• Dollar diplomacy

• U.S becomes a world power

American Imperialism: Time period

• 1877-1920

• 1999-2007

• 1875-1988

• 1690-1760

American Imperialism: Alfred T. Mahan

• made the book "influences of sea Power upon history"

• believed control of over the sea meant a successful empire

• American journalist

• most influential Secretary of state

American Imperialism: Big Stick Policy

• asserted U.S. domination when such dominance was considered the moral imperative.

• marked

  the end Spanish rule in the western hemisphere

• nationalist group who hated foreigners to prevent american lives and lands lost

• applied a high moral standard to create moral diplomacy