Wilson Admin
Woodrow Wilson sent the US Marines to take over and occupy this Caribbean nation
What is Haiti?
A draft; men are randomly selected for required military service
What is conscription?
The mass movement of African-Americans from the South to the North.
What was the Great Migration?
A long period of severe economic downturn
What is a depression?
Unemployed young, unmarried men (aged 18-25) were offered employment doing construction work (CCC)
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps?
State in which a military force takes control and makes decisions as a government
What is martial law?
International peacekeeping organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson after WWI.
What was the League of Nations?
This technology allowed all Americans to experience a national culture
What is the radio?
The series of massive dust storms devastating farms in the Great Plains
What was the Dust Bowl?
Insures banks against failures, today up to $250,000 (FDIC)
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
The belief that the US should develop positive relationships with Latin American countries to promote democracy and freedom
What is "moral diplomacy"?
Term used to describe voluntary food conservation marketing campaigns under the Food Administration.
What is Hooverizing?
This revival of African-American arts and culture seeped into mainstream America, appeal to both Whites and Blacks.
What is the Harlem Rennaisance?
This tariff made it more difficult for American farmers to sell their crops due to foreign governments counter-tariffing the US
What was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
Employed workers on federal works projects as well as miscellaneous government-funded arts projects (WPA)
What was the Works Progress Administration?
This German message to Mexico was intercepted by British forces and given to the US.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Investment purchases sold to citizens to fund government
What are war bonds?
The ideology that the interests of "native-born" groups must be protected against "foreign" immigrants
What is nativism?
A tax placed on foreign goods entering a country
What is a tariff?
Organization designed to regulate the stock market (SEC)
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
This passenger vessel was famously sunk by German U-Boats, much to Wilson's ire.
What was the Lusitania?
This American immigrant group felt the most pressure to purchase war bonds during WWI.
Who are German-Americans?
This purchasing method allowed consumers to make small weekly or monthly payments until an item was paid for
What were installment plans?
This American group was faced extensive deporations during the Great Depression.
Who are Mexican-Americans?
Sets up pension payments for retired workers and unemployment insurance for unemployed workers (SSA)
What is the Social Security Administration?