Progressive Era
These people exposed problems and brought issues to light. Their work sometimes led to society calling on the government to address the problems they exposed.
muckrakers
Who was the US President during World War One?
Woodrow Wilson
Frederick Taylor's principles of managing workers movements and technqiues to build, moving assembly line led to mass production/ ex. Henry Ford and the Model T. What was this called?
Taylorism or scientific management
President at the start of the decade who did not adequately address the problems faced early in the Great Depression. What are examples of how the public showed their frustration with him?
Herbert Hoover
Hoovervilles, Hoover flags, Hoover blankets, Bonus Army
Payment Plan between the US, Germany, Britain and France for war reparations post WWI
Dawes Plan
CCC... What is this program?
Civilian Conservation Corps
Which amendment made income tax Constitutional?
16th
Name on of the two events that led America into World War One?
Sinking of the Lusitania/ German policy of unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmerman telegram
Name of the trial that challenged the teaching of evolution in schools
What was FDRs policy for addressing the Great Depression? How did he communicate this work to the public?
New Deal
fireside chats
This Act led to a pause in strikes between labor and management during WWII
Conally anti-strike Act
WPA... What is this program?
Works Progress Administration
the author Upton Sinclair wrote this book exposed the appalling and unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.
The Jungle
What is the term for the mass movement of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north?
Great Migration
a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s.
The Lost Generation
this was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificate
Bonus Army
This campaign strove for victory against fascism abroad and victory against racism at home.
Double Victory Campaign (Double V Campaign)
SEC... What is this program?
Securities Exchange Commission
This muckraker wrote the book History of the Standard Oil Comany
Ida Tarbell
Name of Wilson's progressive backed plan for the World Post WWI which included a League of Nations
Fourteen Points
In the Teapot Dome Scandal, this secretary of the Interior was leasing federal oil land to oil companies and pocketing some of the money
Albert Fall
Scandal in which FDR tried to add more justices to the supreme Cout
court packing scandal
This Supreme Court ruling defended the presidential Executive Order 9066 order to the relocate of all people of Japanese descent on the west coast to internment camps. What was the Court Case called?
Korematsu v. United States
TVA... What is this program?
Tenessee Valley Authority
This court case strengthened the Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918)
Schenck vs. US (1919)
Which amendment banned the sale and transportation of alcohol? Which amendment ended this era?
21st Amendment repealed 18th Amendment
which act from the New Deal limited consumer banks from risky investments like the stock market
Glass-Steagall Act
This bill gave some World War Two veterans access to a free college education and low-interest home and business loans
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
this act established the NIRA, which supervised fair trade codes and guaranteed laborers a right to collective bargaining.
National Industrial Recovery Act