Imperialism
The United States' purchase of Alaska
What is Seward's Folly?
To fight discrimination in American legal courts (W.E.B. DuBois and Jane Addams - Co-founders)
What is the NAACP?
The United States and President Wilson's position at the beginning of WWI
What is neutral?
A period of artistic achievement in multiple fields by African Americans (i.e. Langston Hughes, Ella Fitzgerald, etc)
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Americans who often faced Increased discrimination in employment and in relief programs
Who are African Americans?
It insured that the United States would have access to Chinese markets
What is the Open Door Policy?
Supreme Court Case that upheld the doctrine of "Separate But Equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Militarism, Nationalism (Increased Jingosim - Aggressive foreign policy), Alliances and Imperialism
What are the Causes of WWI?
Fundamentalism wins over Evolution in 1925 Dayton, TN
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
The result of intense agriculture depleting topsoil and dry conditions
What is the Dust Bowl?
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
The Muckraker photojournalist whose efforts led to the exposure of Child Labor and New York City's Slums
Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare which was a violation of Freedom of the Seas
What was a main reason for U.S. involvement in WWI?
The reemergence of the KKK and the passage of the National Origins Act establishing a restrictive quota system shows an increase in _______________ sentiment
What is Nativist?
The main goal of this group of WWI veterans was to receive a promised pension early; Hoover used the U.S. army to disperse them; FDR allowed them to stay in D.C.
What is the Bonus Army?
Some people living under U.S Control (Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, etc.) would not receive equal rights and protections. The Constitution does not follow the flag
What are the Supreme Court "Insular Cases"?
Both President Theodore Roosevelt and his successor William Howard Taft were know for breaking up _________________.
What are monopolies and trusts?
President Wilson's goal to promote international security and peace among nations
What is the League of Nations (or Fourteen Points)
Fear in the United States against immigrants who supported leftist or radical beliefs (These 2 men were executed for their beliefs)
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
Huey Long and Upton Sinclair criticized the New Deal on grounds that the reforms _______________
What is did not go far enough to redistribute wealth?
The United States would continue to limit European influence in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911?
Supreme Court decision that states that Speech that presents a "clear and present danger" is not protected
What is Schenk v. United States?
In 1928 member nations agreed not to use the threat of war against each other
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
The NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act) was created to assist businesses allowing the government to set wages, prices, etc. However, it was struct down in this supreme Court case
What is the "Sick Chicken" or Schechter Poultry Case?