Imperialism
Where do pineapples come from? The modern USA may not have ever had a taste for them without farmers in this archipelago urging the US military to intervene and overthrow their queen.
Hawaii
This tariff passed in 1930 and raised rates to nearly 60%. Some call it one of many causes of the Great Depression.
Hawley-Smoot
The presidential candidate of the Bull Moose Party (or simply, the Progressive Party), this former president sought his third term in a race against Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) and William Howard Taft (Republican) in the 1912 election. He lost :(
Theodore Roosevelt
What was the name of the British passenger ship sunk by German U-boats during WW1?
Lusitania
What was FDR's plan to add Supreme Court justices called? (He was tired of the S.C. deeming New Deal laws unconstitutional.)
Court-packing scheme
Upton Sinclair said he shot for the American public's hearts but he hit them in the stomach with this literally gut-wrenching story of the malpractices of the meat-packing industry.
The Jungle
What the USA policy in regards to World War 1 at its outset?
Neutrality, isolationism
Some urban women chose to wear short hair, short dresses, drink, and smoke. What were they called?
Flappers
What were FDR's three R's?
Time off for financial institutions where the Treasury evaluated solvency and rushed banks money was called ______.
Banking Holiday
This economist supported government deficit spending to help an economy in recession.
John Maynard Keynes
FDR radio communications with the American people about the on-goings of the New Deal were called _____.
Fireside Chats
These acts of Congress kept the US from supporting any warring nation at the outset of World War II.
Neutrality Acts
The Japanese attack here led to the United States declaring war on Japan and Germany.
Pearl Harbor
In addition to Turner's frontier thesis, Alfred Thayer Mahan argued in 1890 that it was this kind of power that created the British Empire. The USA would follow suit in the years after.
Naval power
This law limited immigration from foreign countries to 2% of the inhabitants from that country in the 1890 census, thereby severely reducing immigration from southern Europe. It also banned immigration from Japan.
Immigration Act of 1924
In the 1896 presidential election William Jennings Bryan led the Populist Party. He faced this Republican candidate.
William McKinley
The USS Maine went down and the USA had this "splendid little war" with a former European imperial power.
Spanish-American War
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that the government can force people to move in times of war.
Korematsu v. United States
In this workplace incident, 146 workers--mostly immigrant women--died in a fire. It led to reforms to ensure workplace safety and grew the garment workers union.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The eventual cause of American involvement in WW1 was this famous telegram from the German foreign minister to Mexico stating that Mexico would receive their lost lands if they joined the war on the side of Germany.
Zimmerman telegram
Name 3 beliefs of the 1920s KKK.
Anti-foreign, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-Black, anti-Communist, Anti-birth control
What was the name of FDR's economic assistance plan during the Great Depression?
New Deal
Part of the Glass-Steagall Act insured banking deposits up to $5,000. What was this called?
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
This New Deal organization regulates the Stock Market.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
This F. Scott Fitzgerald novel about life in the 1920s argued that not everything is as it appears.
The Great Gatsby
This special provision in the Neutrality Act of 1939 led the USA to help the Allies.
Cash and Carry
This movement campaigned for victory in the war and victory at home against discrimination and segregation.
Double V Campaign
This US policy asked European powers for free trade and respect of right in China.
Open Door Policy
The 17th amendment was the result of Progressives expanding democracy. What did it say?
Senators are to voted on directly, instead of appointed by state legislatures
This historian's 1893 thesis that the American frontier was closed led Americans to seek expansion abroad.
Frederick Jackson Turner
The Sedition Act forbade speech against the government because it hurt the war effort. This socialist leader was convicted under the act and then ran for president from jail.
Eugene Debs
In this case, the Court ruled that freedom of speech and freedom of the press under the First Amendment could be limited only if the words in the circumstances created "a clear and present danger".
Schenck v United States
What were Theodore Roosevelt's 3 C's?
1. Conservation--expanded national parks with Forest Reserve Act
2. Corporate regulation--trust-busting
3. Consumer Protection--Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act
What was the goal of the Committee on Public Information?
to influence American opinion to support the war effort through propaganda
What was the name of the illegal drinking establishments?
speakeasies
Name 3 causes of the Great Depression.
Overspeculation, overproduction (falling prices), WWI debt, farming debts, consumer debts, bank failures, Hawley Smoot Tariff
This organization allotted $4 billion for massive public works projects like Grand Coulee Dam.
Public Works Administration
This organization was created to produce power and provide irrigation in one of the poorest regions of the USA.
Tennessee Valley Authority
This book by John Steinbeck portrayed life in the Dust Bowl for Okies and Arkies.
The Grapes of Wrath
This organization supported American isolationism in WW2 was led by transatlantic pilot Charles Lindbergh.
America First Committee
What was the nickname for women laborers during the Second World War?
"Rosies"
Following Latin American countries' loan defaults, this extension of the Monroe Doctrine stated that the USA would intervene instead of European countries.
Roosevelt Corollary
This legislation aimed at regulating currency, monitoring banking practices, and formulating monetary policy.
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
This senator and rival of Woodrow Wilson refused to support the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations.
Henry Cabot Lodge
In 1931, Japan invaded this part of China.
Manchuria
This case supported by the Progressives justified different treatment of men and women in the workplace.
Muller v Oregon 1908
Elkins--prohibited railroad companies from giving rebates to largest shippers, thereby engaging in price discrimination
Hepburn--Gave the Interstate Commerce Commission power to enforce the Elkins Act and set fair railroad pricing
This Attorney General rounded up communists/anarchists in a series of raids during the First Red Scare.
A. Mitchell Palmer "Palmer raids"
Buying stock on credit, or "on margin", and overspeculation in the stock market led to 10/29/1929, AKA _______.
Black Tuesday
This organization was created by Congress and attempted to alter crop and commodity prices through burning of crops and killing of livestock; eventually, it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Also, it hurt black farmers because it put them out of work.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
This New Deal organization employed 3 million young men to work outdoors fighting fires, doing flood control,and more. The men were given food and a salary they had to send home.
Civilian Conservation Corps
This New Deal act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, and aid for dependent mothers and children, persons who are blind, and persons with disabilities.
Social Security Act 1935
This political party emerged in the late 1800s to defend farmers and workers and ensure a silver-backed currency that would create inflation.
Populist Party
Likened to giving the neighbor a garden hose, this act of Congress gave weapons to the Allies, and they would return them after use.
Lend-Lease Act
The Axis powers found the code-talkers' language impossible to decipher from these two tribes.
Comanches, Navajos
Emilio Aguinaldo organized an insurrection against the USA in the Philippines and these critics of American expansion, including Mark Twain, took notice and spoke about against it.
American Anti-Imperialist League
This legislation sought to ban the practices of price discrimination and anti-competitive mergers, and it declared strikes, boycotts, and labor unions legal under federal law.
Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914
After Woodrow Wilson's presidency, a succession of Republican presidents would last until 1932. Who were these presidents in favor of laissez-faire economic policies?
Hardin 1920
Coolidge 1923 (after Harding died)
Hoover 1928
What were the 3 territorial gains by the USA in the Spanish-American War?
1. Guam
2. Puerto Rico
3. Philippines
This case was a setback for Progressive labor reformers and invalidated laws that limited the workday to ten hours.
Lochner v New York 1905
Name 3 muckrakers
Jacob Riis "How the Other Half Lives", Ida Tarbell "The History of the Standard Oil Company", Upton Sinclair "The Jungle"
This group of WWI veterans marched on Washington in 1932 and demanded to be paid their pensions.
Bonus Army
In this cultural movement, African Americans expressed their story and their lives artistically in ways that were up to this point unfamiliar or unpalatable to a white audience.
Harlem Renaissance
During the Great Depression dry farming in the Midwestern US led to a mass migration of farmers to California.
Dust Bowl
This organization was created by Congress to construct “useful projects” like buildings, bridges, roads, and even paid artists to do their craft.
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
This FDR plan reversed some of the negative problems associated with the Dawes Severalty Act.
Indian Reorganization Act
Can a teacher give lessons on evolutionary theory? This case said no, a teacher cannot.
Scopes Monkey Trial
This American program created the nuclear bombs.
Manhattan Project
What did the GI Bill do?
For WW2 veterans, gave loans for college, loans for homes, loans for businesses, loans for farms