The Progressive Era
This Progressive-Era Constitutional amendment allowed for greater direct participation in politics for American citizens
What is the 17th Amendment
The President of the US who wanted to join WWI to defend democracy and humanitarianism.
Who is Woodrow Wilson
The reemergence of this group highlighted the troubled race relations that existed during the 1920s.
What is the KKK
Part of the New Deal that provided $ for old age pensions and disabled people.
What is Social Security Act
The top secret mission in the US to build the world's first atomic bomb that became a controversial issue after it was used.
What is the Manhattan Project
Who were the Muckrakers
The two sides of the debate over if the US should become involved in WWI or not.
Who are Isolationists and Interventionists
New technologies in the 1920's allowed for this and was the way Henry Ford produced cars.
What is Mass Production or the Assembly Line
This influential American government institution blocked so many of FDR's early New Deal policies that he proposed new legislation to limit their power
What is the Supreme Court
A example of the transition from Isolation to Intervention that allowed the US to loan weapons and war supplies to Great Britain.
What is the Lend Lease Act
The Woman reformer who established a famous settlement house (Hull House) to help immigrants and poor people in America.
Who is Jane Addams
The United States' failure to ratify the Treaty of Versailles served as a crippling blow to this international peace organization.
What is the League of Nations
An example of a new consumer product in the 1920's that was also used as a form of advertisement.
What is the Radio
Identify three causes of the Great Depression.
Unequal distribution of wealth, overproduction, buying on the margin and over speculation, under-consumption, poor agricultural market, buying on credit
The Supreme Court case the ruled the interment of Japanese-Americans was legal.
What is Korematsu v. the United States
Examples of reforms on the State and local level that allowed citizens to have more power in the Political Process.
What is Initiative, Referendum and Recall
The movement of over 2 million African-Americans out of the South into the north for industrial jobs and economic opportunity.
What is the Great Migration
An example of the fear of Communism after World War I.
What is the Red Scare
FDR's belief that is the responsibility of the government to help citizens in need and those that can not help themselves contradicted this longstanding economic policy
What is laissez-faire capitalism
Group of people who experienced positives during WWII with new economic opportunities and experienced negatives during WWII with racial discrimination.
What are African-Americans
These core beliefs of Teddy Roosevelt came to be known as the "Three C's"
What is control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation
This ordered universal male conscription which forced all men ages 18-45 to register for a chance to join the army.
What is the Selective Service Act or the Draft
The passage of the 18th amendment banning the manufacture of alcohol directly contributed to the rise of this harmful social development
What is organized crime
The political party that became popular among different ethnic groups, African-Americans and the working class because of the New Deal.
What is Democratic Party
The political leaders of the Allied Powers collectively known as the "Big 3" consisted of these individuals
Who are FDR, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin