Labor & The Progressive Era
The movement led by women and church groups to ban alcohol, which eventually led to Prohibition.
What is the Temperance Movement?
President Woodrow Wilson's initial policy of keeping the U.S. completely out of the war in Europe.
What is neutrality?
The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities for factory jobs.
What is the Great Migration?
The risky practice of buying stocks with a small down payment and borrowing the rest of the money.
What is buying on margin?
A political system run by a ruthless dictator that values extreme nationalism and crushes all opposition, like Hitler's Germany.
What is fascism?
The rapid growth of cities as millions of people left farms to take factory jobs.
What is urbanization?
The right of neutral nations to sail and trade safely during wartime, which Germany violated with its submarines.
What is freedom of the seas?
Two Italian immigrants and anarchists executed for murder during a time of intense anti-immigrant fear, despite weak evidence.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
The economic problem where factories and farms made too many goods, but everyday people didn't have the money to buy them.
What are overproduction and underconsumption?
The two meetings where Allied leaders met in 1945 to plan the post-war division of Germany and Europe.
What are the Potsdam and Yalta Conferences?
This constitutional amendment gave the federal government the power to collect an income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
The idea that different national or ethnic groups should have the right to choose their own government and rule themselves.
What is self-determination?
A period of intense fear in the U.S. that communists and radicals were plotting to overthrow the government.
What is the Red Scare?
The pro-business president of the mid-1920s who famously said, "the business of America is business."
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
The U.S. policy that promised military and economic aid to any country fighting off a communist takeover, starting with Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
A list of "troublemaker" union workers shared by factory owners so those workers couldn't get hired anywhere else.
What is a blacklist?
he international peacekeeping group proposed by Wilson that the U.S. Senate refused to let America join.
What is the League of Nations?
This hate group returned in the 1920s, expanding its targets to include immigrants, Catholics, and Jews alongside Black Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The massive environmental disaster in the Great Plains caused by severe drought and poor farming choices.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The practice of making wild, unproven accusations of being a communist or a traitor, named after a U.S. Senator.
What is McCarthyism?
The president after Theodore Roosevelt who broke up monopolies but lacked the personality to keep his party united.
Who is William Howard Taft?
The peace treaty that ended WWI but deeply angered Germany by making them take the blame and pay billions for the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The popular nickname for the 1920s era, known for flappers, speakeasies, and new styles of music.
What is the Jazz Age?
FDR's failed attempt to add six new judges to the Supreme Court so they would stop blocking his laws.
What is court stacking?
The constitutional amendment that officially limited future U.S. presidents to serving just two terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?