American Imperialism / Progressives
What was the Acquisition of Alaska considered?
Seward's Folly (Mistake)
What is the Great Migration?
African Americans moved out of the south into the North to work in factories for WWI.
What is Dawes Plan?
For the US to become World's banker.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
America being 'good neighbors' with Spain.
What did the GI Bill of Rights allow?
Allowed WWII vets to receive higher education (college). Sent the US from blue-collar to white-collar society.
What is 'Yellow Journalism'?
Journalism that is based on lies or exaggeration.
The League of Nations was an attempt to?
An attempt to create world peace.
What did the radio create?
It created the first national culture.
What did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff attempt to do?
Force people to buy American.
What did the Rationing Program do?
Controlled and limited what Americans bought
Banana Republics
What is the Sussex Pledge?
What is the Red Scare?
Govt. attempts to eliminate communists which led to raids of suspected homes
What is Keynesian Economics?
Deficit Spending that was meant to stimulate the economy.
What was the Atlantic Charter?
The first meeting of Churchill and FDR (secretly)
What is the main goal of the Social Gospel?
To make things better in society.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
A treaty that forced central powers to take the blame for the war, but it was never signed.
What is the National Origins Act? (Quotas Act)
Eliminate almost all immigration (nativism)
What were fireside chats?
FDR gave radio messages to Americans, updates on progress of New Deal
What did America First Committee support?
Supported isolationism
Ban on Alcohol abuse
An act that states when a man becomes 18, they must register to draft or become imprisoned.
What was the Garvey Movement considered?
'Back to Africa' Movement, a militant piece of the the Early Civil Rights Movement
What was the Wagner Act of 1935?
A pro-labor union law that was established to eliminate discrimination against strikers and workers.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
America WILL only lend or lease to allies.