Roaring 20s Politics
This president passed the 19th amendment
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
President Woodrow Wilson's proposal for a peace settlement between the Triple Entente (the Allied powers) and the Central powers at the end of World War I.
14 points becomes the League of Nations
How are Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst linked to American involvement in the Spanish-American war?
Yellow Journalism sensational headlines about the USS Maine
The hysteria and paranoia over communism spreading to the U.S. after WWI was evidenced in the
What is the Red Scare?
sent from Germany's foreign secretary to the German minister in Mexico. It instructed the minister to urge Mexico to attack the US if the US declared war on Germany. Anti-German feeling soared in the US after learning about it
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
government policy of restricting the use of certain scarce goods, usually during wars or other emergencies
rationing
an alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary as WWI continued the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria joined
Central Powers
This was passed in 1933, ending prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment? (Bonus 100pts: How many years did Prohibition last? Double bonus 100pts: What president repealed Prohibition?)
one nation controls another, usually smaller or weaker, nation, by obtaining territory or by holding political or economic power.
What is imperialism
The Teapot Dome scandal centered around
Oil-rich lands.
In 1898 it lasted only a few months, to end Spain's involvement in Cuba. It gave the United States a commanding position in the Pacific and Latin America
What is the Spanish American War? Bonus 100pts (Name one territory that the US gained from this war)
person who supports community ownership of property and the sharing of all profits
Socialist
This led to increased government corruption because police and politician took bribes from gangsters to ignore the movement and sale of alcohol.
What is prohibition?
In the Great Migration, African Americans moved from
Southern farms to the Northern cities. (Bonus 100pts: Name one northern city that tripled the population because of the Great Migration.)
Illegal nightclubs that served alcohol during the 1920s were called
What are Speakeasies?
A Powerful Gangster in the 1920s was_ who was the mob boss of _. He eventually went to prison for violating the _.
Al Capone, Chicago, 16th amendment
By 1917, the countries fighting in World War I had reached a stalemate. A stalemate is a situation where no one can make progress. What happened in 1917 that ended the stalemate?
The United States entered WWI: Bonus 100pts (name the three other countries that the US allied with as the Triple Entente or Allied Powers)
The ____ gave full voting rights to women. Before this it was a state by state law. _ was the first state to pass woman's suffrage.
19th Amendment, Wyoming
The belief in economics that have a preference for self-reliance and minimal central government
Laissez faire economics
An artificial waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans which allowed the US to expand its commercial power in the early 1900s. The canal opened in 1914, ending a construction project that had begun ten years earlier.
What is the Panama Canal? Bonus 100pts (What president planned and executed the Panama Canal?)