Imperialism
US Naval Base acquired in Hawaii
What is Pearl Harbor?
The ‘mother’ of the settlement house movement aimed to provide immigrants with social services, childcare, and English lessons
Who is Jane Addams?
The mass production method that made items such as automobiles more affordable to the average American
What is the Assembly Line?
This term describes a market where stock prices are rising and optimism is high; its collapse in 1929 helped trigger the Great Depression
What is the Bull Market?
This 1928 international agreement, while ultimately symbolic and unenforceable, saw 62 nations pledge to outlaw war
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Ideology that people of English descent possessed superior traits and had a duty to civilize others
What is Anglo-Saxonism?
After reading this 1906 novel about the “crushing of human lives” in Chicago’s meatpacking plants, President Teddy Roosevelt passed the Meat Inspection Act
What is (Upton Sinclair's) "The Jungle"?
The German message promising Mexico US territory that was intercepted, helping push America into WW1
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
In 1932, Hoover’s reputation was devastated when he ordered the military ot clear out this group of WW1 veterans who were camping in D.C. to demand early payment of their service certificates
Who is the Bonus Army?
At the 1938 Munich Conference, Britain and France applied this policy toward Hitler's demand for the Sudetenland, a strategy that later became an obvious failure
What is Appeasement?
The battleship that traveled to Havana, Cuba and exploded, then blamed the explosion on the Spanish fueling war
What is the USS Maine?
This “tortoise and hare” rivalry featured Booker T. Washington’s focus on economic trade versus this man’s Niagara Movement” which demanded immediate political equality
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
The US Policy that claimed they would oppose European Intervention towards any country in the Americas and they would intervene in Latin American countries that displayed they could maintain order
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Upon taking office, FDR immediately declared these “holidays” to stop the run on the nation’s financial institutions and allow for federal inspections
What are Bank Holidays?
During the Zoot Suit Riots, tensions flared in Los Angeles between sailors and Mexican-American youths brought to the U.S. for agricultural work under this labor program
What is the Bracero Program?
US proposal for equal trade for all nations in China
What is the Open-Door Policy?
Under his “Square Deal,” Teddy Roosevelt became the first president to move toward this “C,” spending four days in Yosemite with John Muir to protect federal lands
What is Conservation?
The two acts that opposed and gave the government the power to obstruct anti-war efforts
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This photographer is famous for capturing the “Migrant Mother” and other haunting images of the “Okies” and the human toll of the Dust Bowl
Who is Dorothea Lange?
While “Ultra” was the British project to crack German codes, this was America's intelligence operation that successfully intercepted and decoded Japan’s “Purple”
What is "Magic"?
Expansion of the Monroe Doctrine, US dominance in the Western Hemisphere
What is Hemispheric Hegemony?
While the 16th Amendment created income tax and the 17th allowed for the direct election of senators, this amendment was the only one in history to be fully repealed.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The corrupt government scandal under President Harding involving illegal oil leases
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This 1935 act created a “safety net” for the elderly, the unemployed, and the disabled, becoming one of the most lasting “Reform” pillars of the New Deal
What is the Social Security Act?
Often cited as the turning point in the Pacific, this 1942 naval battle saw the U.S. sink four Japanese aircraft carriers, largely due to breaking Japanese naval codes
What is the Battle of Midway?