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Republican president from 1929-1933
Who is Herbert Hoover?
1933 act which paid farmers to plant half the amount of crops than they usually do; known as AAA
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
1944 Supreme Court case involving Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American who refused to leave the exclusion zone; upheld Japanese internment
What is Korematsu V. United States?
Ban of the sale, production, and transport of alcohol by the eighteenth amendment
What is Prohibition?
The post-WWII treaty which included the Leauge of Nations, part of Wilson's 14 points
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Author of The Great Gatsby, a famous novel that depicted New York City in the roaring 20s.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The amendment which gave women the right to vote in 1920
What is the nineteenth amendment?
Supreme court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1936; also known as the "sick chicken case"
What is Schechter Poultry Corp. V. United States?
Mass migration of African Americans from the South to big cities in the North prompted by an increase in wartime manufacturing jobs in these cities
What is the Great Migration?
one leader of the fight against discrimination headed by W.E.B. Dubois; worked to help African Americans find a place in the labor movement and break racial barriers
Who is Dorothea Lange?
Acts passed from 1935 to 1939 to keep the U.S. neutral in the conflict in Europe (beginning of WWII) due to American isolationist sentiment which was fostered by the terrors of WWI.
What are Neutrality Acts?
1919 Supreme Court case which upheld the Espionage Act on the grounds that civil liberties could be curtailed if they posed a "clear and present danger"
What is Schenck V. United States?
Public paranoia from 1917 to 1920 following the Bolshevik Revolution where Americans feared that there would be a communist revolution in the US; the government responded with the Palmer Raids
What is the First Red Scare?
1906 novel by Upton Sinclair about the tragic story of a man in the meatpacking industry who was beaten down by the system; led to the passing of the Food and Drug Act in 1906
What is The Jungle?
Tennessee teacher who broke the state law which banned teachers from teaching their students about evolution, launching a highly publicized trial
Who is John Thomas Scopes?
1918 act that made it illegal to promote the prevention of war bonds or speak negatively about the government.
What is Sedition Act?
One of many instances where the supreme court struck down a New Deal program where they declared the AAA unconstitutional in 1933
What is United States V. Butler?
African American movement in New York City during the 20s; included important poets such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
an economic ideology that guided the New Deal which included the idea that depressions are part of a cycle to which the solution is deficit spending
What is Keynesian Economics?
Wisconsin Governor within the progressive movement who fought for direct primary elections, progressive taxation, and rail regulation
Who is Robert La Follette?
1941 act which allowed the U.S. to lend armaments to England since they could no longer afford weapons.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
1923 Supreme Court case that declared a minimum wage law for women unconstitutional because it denied freedom of contract
What is Adkins v. Children's Hospital of D.C.?
1941 meeting between FDR and Winston Churchill in order to declare the Allies' war aims which include freedom of the seas, self-determination, disarmament, and guaranteeing each nation's security
What is the Atlantic Charter Conference?
The idea, promoted by Roosevelt, that an attack on Latin America was an attack on the US and the US military would intervene in such an instance; also known as the "big stick policy"
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?