Progressivism, Reformers & Culture Wars
This muckraking journalist exposed the business practices of this powerful oil trust in a series of articles that challenged its claims of fair competition.
Who are Ida Tarbell and Standard Oil?
This federal propaganda agency promoted American support for World War I under the leadership of journalist George Creel.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
With men in uniform and war factories hiring, more than 400,000 Black Southerners headed to Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, and New York.
What is the Great (African-American) Migration?
In the 1920s, investors put down just a fraction of a stock's price and borrowed the rest, which became a disaster when prices fell.
What is buying on margin?
This 1933-1935 phase of FDR's program focused on economic recovery, relief for the unemployed, and financial regulation.
What is the First New Deal?
This industrialist built Standard Oil into one of the most powerful corporations in the United States and defended large-scale business consolidation.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Later found to be carrying munitions, this British luxury liner was torpedoed off Ireland, killing 128 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
Centered in a New York neighborhood during the 1920s, this cultural movement brought African American literature, music, art, and intellectual life to national prominence.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Known by this name, October 29, 1929, marked a major day of panic selling during the Wall Street crash.
What is Black Tuesday?
This phase (1935-1938) shifted left toward "social justice," building a welfare-state safety net.
What is the Second New Deal?
This nurse promoted birth control and reproductive autonomy, while this writer argued that women's economic dependence on men reinforced gender inequality.
Who are Margaret Sanger and Charlotte Perkins Gilman?
In 1917 Germany's foreign secretary asked Mexico to join the war, with Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona as the prize.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Passed in 1917, this law defined treason so loosely that it helped send more than a thousand people to prison, including IWW members.
What is the Espionage Act?
Veterans marched on Washington in 1932 to demand pensions early, and one complained, "We were heroes in 1917, but were bums now."
What is the Bonus Army?
The 1935 law created old-age pensions and a federal-state system of unemployment compensation.
What is the Social Security Act?
This constitutional amendment established national Prohibition by banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
This progressive critic broke with pro-war intellectuals and wrote that "war is the health of the State." He died in the 1918 flu epidemic.
Who is Randolph Bourne?
Under this 1918 law, even words that might "incite, provoke, or encourage" resistance to the U.S. could be crimes.
What is the Sedition Act?
Severe drought, soil erosion, and massive dust storms devastated Great Plains agriculture during the 1930s, sending "Okies" west along Route 66.
What is the Dust Bowl?
FDR's coalition of ethnic groups, city dwellers, union labor, African Americans, and middle-class progressives backed liberal reform for decades.
What is the New Deal Coalition?
In a sweltering Tennessee courtroom in 1925, this politician defended Tennessee's anti-evolution law, while this famous attorney challenged the law and questioned its religious justification.
Who are William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow?
This 1919 peace treaty imposed reparations and military restrictions on Germany after World War I, but the U.S. Senate refused to ratify it.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
After bombs in several cities, one landing at Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's door, the government launched raids on suspected radicals in 1919-1920.
What is the Red Scare?
After about 4,000 banks failed before FDR took office, this 1933 law created the FDIC and separated risky investing from ordinary banking.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
After his 1936 landslide, FDR proposed adding justices to the Supreme Court in 1937.
What is the Court Packing Plan?