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If the company is profitable it may be listed on the:
Dow Jones Industrial Average
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welfare capitalism
employers' practice of meeting some workers needs without demand from labor unions
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speculation
practice of high risk investments in hopes of high gain
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buying on margin
purchasing stock by borrowing part of the price from stock brokers
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speakeasies
secret bars, usually underground, used during the time of prohibition
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assembly line
first created by Henry Ford to be used for his automobile
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19th Amendment
gave women the right to vote
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League of Nations
President Wilson hoped this would ensure security and peace for all its members
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Versailles Treaty
signed by European powers ending WWI
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Espionage Act
made it illegal to say or write anything agains the U.S. or its war efforts
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Sussex Pledge
Germany's promise that their U-Boats would warn before attack
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Zimmerman Note
Proposed an alliance with Germany and Mexico that encouraged a Mexican Revolution
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Sedition Act
made it illegal to interfere with the draft
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Sherman Antitrust Act
law passed that prohibited interfering with interstate trade
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collective barganing
where Union representatives negotiated with management in the intrests of union workers
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Transcontinental Railroad
- Union Pacific (DURANT) vs Central Pacific (STANFORD)
- U; hired irish, former slaves, conf. war vets
- CP; hired chinese
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trust
group of seperate corporations under the control of a single board of directors
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monopoly
one business controls an industry
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with the election of _______ in 1860, the Southern States began seceding from the Union
Abraham Lincohln
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Amendment that freed the slaves
13th
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Amendement that said all laws must be applied equally
14th
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Amendment that said no citizen will be denied the right to vote based on color
15th
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dispute that occured between the workers of Carnegie steel mill and Andrew Carnegie and Frick
Homestead Strike
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calls for the equal distribution of wealth
socialism
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a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power
anarchist
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Union which organized skilled workers
American Federation of Labor
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musical genre which was popular before jazz
ragtime
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is a practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party
spoil system
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a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by the populist Jacob Coxey.
Coxey's Army
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the group of American settlers who unlawfully claimed lands in what eventually became Oklahoma
sooner
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believed that the Indian lands were public property
boomer
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developed from farmers' alliances formed in the 1880s in reaction to falling crop prices and poor credit facilities.They also demanded an increase in the circulating currency (to be achieved by the unlimited coinage of silver), a graduated income tax, government ownership of the railroads, a tariff for revenue only, and the direct election of U.S. senators.
Populist movement
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presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.
yellow journalism
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social structure were classes are abolished and the government owns everything
communism
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the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.
isolationism
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direct election of senators
17th amendement
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prohibition
18th amendment
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an economy largely dependent on end consumers rather than intermediary businesses (i.e., companies which produce things
consumer economy
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a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism
fascism
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member of the National socialist German Workers' party of Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler, seized political control of the country, suppressing all opposition and establishing a dictatorship over all cultural, economic, and political activities of the people, and promulgated belief in the supremacy of Hitler as Führer, aggressive anti-Semitism, the natural supremacy of the German people, and the establishment of Germany by superior force as a dominant world power.
Nazi
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VJ Day
- Victory in Japan Day
- August 1945
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secret name of the research and builing project of the atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
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Last island that the US needed to start a D-Day invasion of Japan
Battle of the Okinawa
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Italian fascism
totalitarianism
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Led by Mitchell Palmer. attempts to rid the US of communists and anarchists
Palmer Raids
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describes the period after the end of World War I, through the Roaring Twenties, ending with the onset of the Great Depression.
Jazz Age
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published statement agreed between Britain and the United States of America. It was intended as the blueprint for the postwar world after World War II, and turned out to be the foundation for many of the international agreements that currently shape the world.
Atlantic Charter
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Germany bombed Britian in hope of a surrender. Britian never surrendered and Germany gave up
Battle of Britian
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invasion on the coast of western Europe on June 6. pushed Germany towards the Soviets which were fighting on the east side
D Day
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Germany attempted to split Allie troops, but failed and the Allies squashed all attempts at any more German offensive war
Battle of the Buldge
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