Post-Civil War
What is legalized segregation?
This term is used to describe women who epitomized the change in standards of sexual behavior.
What is flappers?
This New Deal policy established standards for minimum wage, maximum hours, and overtime standards while also banning child labor.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
During this Civil Rights event, violence broke out following the attempt to integrate Central High School prompting the president to send federal troops to restore order.
What is Little Rock?
This former Georgia Governor became president of the United States
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This allowed for the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What are government grants and subsidies?
What is Stone Mountain?
This New Deal policy provided for the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure bank deposits/accounts.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
December 7, 1941 is known as a “date that will live in infamy" refers to what event.
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
During this Civil Rights event, four students initiated a lunch-counter sit-in at Woolworths leading to the founding of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
What is Greensboro?
This supreme court decision established a constitutional right to abortion; it was overturned in 2022.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This law was meant to provide Indians with individual land ownership.
What is the Dawes Act?
This Constitutional Amendment provided for women's suffrage.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This New Deal policy guaranteed the right of workers to organize and for those unions collectively bargain for the terms of employment contracts.
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
The Allied invasion at Normady is often referred to as....
What is D-Day?
During this Civil Rights events, Civil rights leaders attempted to garner national attention for their cause, but largely failed to do so when local policy did not engage in public brutality during the mass arrents of protestors.
What is Albany?
This is how federal troops were used in the Pullman Strike.
What is used to suppress workers on behalf of the business owners?
This person gave the Atlanta Compromise Speech.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism emphasized this idea.
What is regulation of corporations?
This New Deal policy provided for the creation of a basic welfare system which included old-age pensions, unemployment relief, and aid to families with dependent children.
What is the Social Security Act?
After declaring war on Japan in 1941, the US government dealt with Americans of Japanese through this policy.
What is putting them in special camps/internment camps?
During this Civil Rights event, Civil rights leaders attempted to fight continued segregation of public facilities by sending their children to the picket lines prompting public displays of police brutality against protestors.
What is Birmingham?
The People's Party, also known as the Populists, wanted these reforms.
What are....
The creation of a subtreasury system
The establishment of a federal income tax
The end of protective tariffs
This law banned the immigration of Chinese laborers was suspended for ten years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom emphasized this idea.
What is trust-busting?
This New Deal policy created a new federal agency to coordinate regional planning efforts including providing low-cost electricity for residents and businesses.
What is Tennessee Valley Authority Act?
During the Cold War, this policy was an attempt to limit the expansion of Soviety influence abroad. It influenced the ideas of spheres of influence and the domino theory.
What is containment?
This Civil Rights event is often referred to as "Bloody Sunday." It is when police attacked peaceful protestors attempting to march in support of voting rights.
What is Selma?
These were causes of the Great Depression.
What are....
Corporate structures had been bloated by the success of the 1920s but were unprepared for the tightening of the economy.
Andrew Mellon was overconfident in the power of market capitalism to right itself.
Much of the profits that had been taken during the 1920s had been put back into companies rather than saved or invested in other ways.
A decline in the public consumption of goods led to a lower rate of investment in new plants.
The idea of the New South sought to promote this idea.
What is economic diversification and industrial expansion in the South?
This was the result of the Spanish-American War.
The blowing to millions of acres of topsoil in the 1930s resulted in this term.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This theory was behind various U.S. interventions during the Cold War, particularly Vietnam. It suggested that once one country fell to communism, more would fall.
What is Domino theory?
These were the values of Progressivism.
What are...
Progressives believed in the spirit of human progress.
Progressives believed in the spirit of human progress.
Progressives were involved in a variety of reforms in the political, economic, and social realms.
Progressives were mainly urban and middle class.