Politics and Power
Starting in the early 20th century, a growing political movement swept the nation known as
What is Progressivism?
The large scale national security focused on a social phenomenon based on paranoia surrounding national security.
What is the First Red Scare?
Movement away from cities, towards surrounding neighborhoods such as Levitowns is called
What is suburbanization?
The name of Henry Ford's model of the first car made through the assembly line
What is the Model T?
Woodrow Wilson's plan for the world following WW1 is
What is The 14 points?
The two most important names of FDR's domestic policies following the great Depression
What is New Deal and Alphabet Soup?
The trial of a high school teacher in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law. The teacher was found guilty and the trial was closely followed by the public.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
What is urbanization?
The representative for women in the workforce
Who is Rosie the Rivoter?
The proper name for the foreign policy known as the "big stick diplomacy" under Theodore Roosevelt.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary (an addition to the Monroe Doctrine)?
Following the end of WW1, the combatting ideas over American foreign policy were
What are isolationism and taking a position of global leadership?
Provided WW2 veterans with low interest mortgages, college tuition, and vocational training.
What is the GI Bill?
Name two of the territories gained in the Spanish American War
The economic plan following WW1 that facilitated European recovery, despite the Treaty of Versailles.
What is the Dawes Plan?
Three most important wars throughout this period
What is Spanish American War, WW1, WW2?
The Act that set up a regulatory board for the federal government, rather than other bankers running it
What is the Banking Act of 1934?
Due to periods of extensive war, what happened to women's roles in the ladder half of period 7.
What is Greater involvement in the war, think Rosie the Rivoter?
This leader during the Harlem Renaissance encouraged a modern "Back to Africa" movement and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Name the key event at the beginning of the 20th century that enabled the technological advance seen throughout the period.
What is Technologic Revolution or the Second Industrial Revolution?
These were passed to reduce the number of "New" immigrants and were a response to nativism.
What are the Quota Acts?
Two Continuity or Change in politics and power throughout period 7
What is
1. Calls for isolationism fell through
2. Demographic shifts in politics southerns became republican party, students and urban ares became progressive, democrats
What is an example of journalism that affected public opinion about an event within the time period and another piece of legislation which parallels it?
What is Yellow Journalism, Common Sense, and Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
The name and an effect of the African American movement out of the Southwest into the Midwest and Northeast
What is The Great Migration, with an effect of the Harlem and Chicago Renaissance, and Jazz music.
List 3 or more of the important new technologies developed during this time period.
What is the car, radar, radio, tanks and other wartime technology, and the TV?
Name three key events from the Pacific Theatre of WW2.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Iwo Jima, or the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?