Famous Figures
Think assembly line. He introduced Model A car, payed workers more, resulting in automotivle industry accounting for about 9% of all manufacturing wages, stimulating other industries.
Who is Henry Ford?
The letter generated support for Spain, favoring for the country to go to war over the issue of independence in the Spanish colony of Cuba.
What is the DeLome Letter?
Passed in 1882. Banned Chinese immigration in U.S. for a total of 40 years because they saw them as a threat.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The country was blamed for the explosion of Maine by the media.
What is Spain?
Passed by FDR, it provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Declared the Banking Holiday and passed the 21st Amendment, repealing the 18th Amendment and its prohibition against alcohol.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Speech by Woodrow Wilson outlining his ideas for foreign policy, inspiring the Allies to victory, moving forward.
What are the Fourteen Points?
Hundreds of thousands of African Americans moving from rural cities in the South into North industrial cities.
What is the great migration?
The start of clickbait drove people’s opinions on the war with misleading articles. Lead by names such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
What is yellow journalism?
Successful banker who bought out Carnegie, with these holdings and others, he launched the U.S. Steel and made it the first billion dollar corporation!
Who is J.P. Morgan?
In charge of wartime food organization, secretary of commerce under Harding, became president in 1928.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The amendment proposed a U.S. declaration of war against Spain, proclaiming the U.S. wouldn’t establish permanent control over Cuba.
What is the Teller Amendment?
Founder of Hull House, providing English lessons, daycares, and child care classes for immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
Term by Theodore Roosevelt to describe the journalists writing about corruption.
Who were the muckrakers?
Act that raised tariffs and gave trouble to farmers. They were forced to buy expensive products from Americsn manufacturers while selling own products into highly competitive world market. Caused the Republican party to lose public support.
What was the McKinley Tariff?
Primary focus was ending Depression for people opposed to business. Believed that the New Deal primarily bailed out failing business and was insufficiently radical.
Who is Huey Long?
Military conference held by Washington G. Harding resulted in three major treaties including the Four-Power Treaty, the Five-Power Treaty, and the Nine-Power Treaty, credited with enabling the rise of Japan as a naval power leading up to WW2.
What is the Washington Naval Conference?
Second major wave of immigration to the U.S. 25 million new immigrants arrived, mostly coming from Southern and Eastern Europe.
What was the New Immigration?
Book written by Carnegie describing the responsiblity of the rich to be philanthropsits and spread their wealth out.
What is gospel of wealth?
Monopoly where a company buys out all of its competition, example being Rockefeller.
What is horizontal integration?
Nobel-prize winning author. “Lost Generation.” Spent much of his time in France, Spain, and Cuba during WW1, writing notable works such as A Farewall to Arms.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
Court case determining Takao ___, a Japanese American born in Japan but living in the United States for more than 20 years, ineligible for naturalization.
What is Ozawa vs the U.S.?
Replaced Emergency Quota Act of 1921. Closed door to all Japanese immigrants, but excluded Canadians and Latin Americans because they provided cheap labor.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
Famous caricaturist and editorial cartoonist in 19th century, considered to be father of American political cartooning.
Who is Thomas Nast?
Railroad starting in Omaha and connecting with the original transcontinental railroad. Commissioned by Congress.
What was the Union Pacific Railroad?