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“bully pulpit”
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
Bonus: What's the context of this turn of phrase? In other words, what was TR talking about? Explain...
The Jungle, although technically fiction, its author researched the lives of those who lived and worked in Chicago’s slaughterhouses, and shocked the American public with a detailed expose’ of the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair and Progressivism?
This 1911 tragedy resulted in the greatest loss of life in NYC, except for the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001. It also resulted in new safety regulations
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
18th Amendment, Volstead Act and (in 1933) the 21st Amendment
What is prohibition?
He declared that the participation in this conflict would “make the world safe for democracy”
Who is Woodrow Wilson and World War 1?
“return to normalcy”
Who was Warren G. Harding?
Bonus: Describe the historical context of "return to normalcy". What year did he give the speech containing those famous words?
His poetry, filled with rhyming couplets and fractured storytelling, is often held up as an example of the Lost Generation’s rejection of earlier literary and artistic traditions.
{Hint: "April is the cruelest month."}
Who is TS Eliot and modernism?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1920, enshrined the franchise for women into law—forcing eastern and southern states to extend a political voice that women already enjoyed in most western states.
What was the 19th Amendment?
Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence, and Alain Locke.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
He described the day this event occurred as a “date that will live in infamy”
Who is Franklin Roosevelt and the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
“the chief business of the American people is business”
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
Bonus: What modern-day president idolized Coolidge, Andrew Mellon's economic policies and kept on picture of Silent Cal on his desk?
Taken from a speech given in Osawatomie, Kansas that was part of his 1912 presidential campaign—this campaign slogan stood for increased regulation of large corporations, a more active role for the president, and the extension of social justice using the power of the federal government.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt and “New Nationalism”?
This “-ism” was reflected in the 1920s by Sacco and Vanzetti’s trial, the new National Origins Act, and the resurgence of the KKK that target immigrants, Catholics and Jews in addition to African-Americans.
What is nativism?
Jane Addams, Chicago and Hull House.
What is the Settlement House movement?
He resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to raise a regiment to fight in this “splendid little war” in 1898.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt and the Spanish-American War?
“an arsenal for democracy”
Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
Bonus: What was the nickname for the new Neutrality Act of 1940 that FDR hoped would help Great Britain survive German attacks after the fall of Paris? {Hint: If your neighbor's house is on fire, then you don't charge him to borrow a water hose.}
In Babbitt, he satirized both the conformity that marked 1920s society but this change in economic behavior, reflected by model-Ts, installment plans, and a burst of new household inventions.
Who is Sinclair Lewis and consumerism?
This 1921 scandal involved the Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall parceling land out to private oil companies in return for cash payments. Those involved were convicted and sent to jail.
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Bonus: Who was president, at the time?
Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan and Tennessee's statute, the Butler Act.
What was the Scopes trial?
In 1867, he walked about 1,000 miles from Kentucky to Florida. He recounted it in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find.” Not surprisingly, the experience influenced his life-long commitment to protect the American wilderness by lobbying TR and later founding the Sierra Club.
Who is John Muir and preservationism?
“rugged individualism”
Who was Herbert Hoover?
Bonus: Herbert Hoover was one of the heroes of World War 1. He was respected around the world. Why? What did he do?
His opus The Influence of Sea Power Upon History , published in 1890, influenced US foreign policy and became a textbook for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Who was Alfred T. Mahan and imperialism?
Pick 2 of the following 3 terms to define: disarmament, collective security, or appeasement
Answers will vary :)
The Social Security Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, and the Wagner Act.
What is the Second New Deal?
It was associated with... jingoism, yellow journalism, “the Butcher” Wyler and “Remember the Maine!”
Your answer should be an event and an word that ends in "-ism"
What was the Spanish-American War and new imperialism?