WW1
A trend during the war of Black people moving to northern cities to find economic opportunities and a different culture.
What is the Great Migration?
The illegalization of alcohol coming from the temperance movement.
What is Prohibition?
shanty tons set up by migrant homeless people made of found materials
What are Hoovervilles?
Reform laws increasing government involvement and spending trying to jump-start the economy.
what is the New deal?
Acts meant to keep the U.S out of conflicts with Europe when entering WW2
What is the neutrality act?
A passenger boat sunk by a German U-Boat. Ended in civilian casualties.
What is the Lusitania?
Period in which activists in labor and civilians speaking out against government would be raided in Palmer raids and punished by law
What is the Red scare?
The day the stock market Crashed
What is Black Tuesday?
Government employment of jobless men in conservation and construction work
What is the CCC?
The Japanese attack that sparked the U.S involvement in WW2
What is pearl harbor?
Act prohibiting speaking out against the government and involvement in WW1
What is the Espionage Act?
the killing of gang members via machine guns in Chicago. called for more gun legislation.
What is the Valentines Day Massacre?
Overuse of land in western states that lead to food famous and not good agricultural soil
What is the Dust Bowl?
Program paying farmers to restrict production to stop inflation and overproduction
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
Russia, France, U.S
What are the Allies?
Mexican revolutionary who burned Mexican American border towns
What is Pancho Villa
Group of writers and activists that wrote about the time and anti materialistic
What is the Lost generation?
Unemployed veterans marching on Washington demanding their bonus checks and retirement from the Army.
What is the Bonus Army?
The federal law that protects unemployed, elderly, and gives money for retirement
what is the social security act?
allied invasion of western Europe. Landmark win for allies
What is the Attack on Normandy?
Law that regulates commerce during wartime. Allows goods coming into and between U.S ports only to be transported on U.S boats
What is the Jones Act?
Abundance of new Black culture- poets, artists, jazz, etc
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Law separating commercial and investment banking
What is the Glass Steagall Act?
The law that guaranteed the right to protect Labor unions
What is the Wagner Act?
Big three leaders of allies meet post-war to make the plan for Germany and post-war world
What is the Yalta conference?