The New Deal
This President enacted the New Deal
Who is Franklin Roosevelt
Name for the day the stock market crashed in October, 1929, signifying the beginning of the Great Depression
What is Black Tuesday
This is the name of Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after World War I
What is The 14 Points
This was the overreaching goal of the Progressive Era
What is reform: Social, political, financial and moral
This is the name of the immigration processing center in New York City where most European immigrants first set foot in America
What is Ellis Island.
This is a conservative criticism of the New Deal
What is that it did too much (too much executive branch interference)
This was President Hoover's initial response to the Great Depression
What was to do nothing and tell the American people not to panic, that it was all part of a normal business cycle.
This is one reason why the United States became involved in World War I, an example of this being the sinking of the Lusitania
What are unrestricted German U-boat attacks
This group exposed poor conditions of workers and workplaces to the American public during the Progressive Era
Who are the muckrakers
These are reasons why immigrants would want to come to the United States.
What are pull factors (job opportunities, reuniting with family, promise of a better life)
The name of the agency that helped restore public confidence in the banking system
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
These are the causes of the Great Depression
What are tariffs, farming problems,buying on credit and income gap
These are the main countries that fought along side the United States during World War I
Who are France and Great Britain
This landmark 1896 Supreme Court ruling created "seperate but equal" in the United States.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson.
The name of the ship sunk in Havana Harbor in 1898 that became a battle cry during the Spanish-American War
What is U.S.S. Maine ("Remember the Maine!")
This, not the New Deal, ultimately pulled the United States out of the Great Depression.
What is World War II
This United States environmental disaster in the early 1930's deepened the effects of the Great Depression on farms and farmers
What is the Dust Bowl
These are the four major provisions of the Treaty of Versailles
Germany has to pay war reparations, reduce its military, give up land and sign war-guilt clause
This moral amendment created to make better lives and boost sales in certain industries was later repealed in FDR's first year in office.
What is Prohibition (18th Amendment)
To protect U.S. goods going to and from new world markets, and to compete with other countries expansion, this branch of the U.S. military greatly increased in the last 20 years of the 1800's.
What is the U.S. Navy
These are the three goals of the New Deal
What are relief for the needy, economic recovery (jobs) and financial reform
The effects of this caused a worldwide depression where American and international businesses lost markets around the globe
What are tariffs (tariff wars)
This is the main reason the Treaty of Versailles was never ratified by the United States
The League of Nations (implications of being in a foreign alliance)
This political reform allows a bill originated by citizens, not lawmakers, on the ballot
What is an Initiative
This type of sensational writing, which was designed to exaggerate news and enrage readers, helped sway public support in favor of going to war with Spain in 1898.
What is Yellow Journalism.