Progressive Era
Journalists during the Progressive Era who exposed the evils of industrialization, urbanization, and corruption
Muckrakers
In order to keep European nations out of the affairs of Central/South American nations through the promise of US military intervention
Roosevelt Corollary
example of the fear of Communism after World War `
Red Scare
Black Tuesday refers to which event that triggered the beginning of the Great Depression
Stock Market Crash
Top-Secret Atomic Bomb project
Manhattan Project
Amendment that created the income tax to help distribute wealth
16th Amendment
Ended the Spanish American War
Treaty of Paris
ordered universal male conscription which forced all men ages 18-45 to register for a chance to join the army
Selective Service Act/draft
FDR's New Deal 3 R's
relief, recovery, reform
A change in US foreign Policy that allowed Great Britain to travel to the US, pay for war supplies in cash and transport them back to Europe.
Cash and Carry Policy
Amendment that called for the direct election of Senators by the people
17th Amendment
The country the US took over during Imperialism in order to build a canal across Central America.
What is Panama
movement of over 2 million African-Americans out of the South into the north for industrial jobs and economic opportunity
Great Migration
Hoover's policy for fixing the Great Depression
volunteerism
example of the transition from Isolation to Intervention that allowed the US to loan weapons and war supplies to Great Britain
Lend Lease Act
reformer who established a famous settlement house (Hull House) to help immigrants and poor people in America.
Jane Addams
US gains from the Spanish American War
Guam, Puerto Rico, purchasing Philippines
The name used to describe the "new" woman of the 1920's who wore short hair and dresses and expanded social freedoms
Flapper
A weather disaster that led to the increased migration of Farmers and Okies westward to places like California.
Dust Bowl
began talks of Post-war Europe with the Big 3
Yalta Conference
The state-level way in which average citizens can be directly involved in the political process
referendum, initiative, recall
The person who encouraged US Imperialism so the US could become a world power by building a large navy, establishing navy bases and fueling stations.
Alfred T. Mahan
Prohibition Amendments
Began: 18th
Ended: 21st
some agreed upon causes of the Great Depression
Unequal distribution of wealth, overproduction, buying on margin
Supreme Court case the ruled the interment of Japanese-Americans was legal
Korematsu v. United States