19th Century
The 17th President of the U.S. who agreed with Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction (no punishment for the South)
Was also the first president to be impeached
Andrew Johnson
A type of writing that exaggerated an issue.
Yellow Journalism
A very strong pride, loyalty and protectiveness towards your country. It was a belief that one's country was the best and that their country was more important than any other country.
Nationalism
The unemployed and poor often lived in "shanty towns."
hoovervilles
Where did most people in the dust storms want to go to?
California
Laws passed by the Southern governments that limited the rights of African Americans
Black Codes
Leaving your country because of war, famine, poverty, violence
Push factors
A kind of warfare where troops huddled at the bottom of trenches and fired artillery and machine guns at each other.
Trench Warfare
Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Herbert Hoover
What were huge dust storms called back then?
Black Blizzards
A person who works on a farm (usually in the south) but does not own it and has to pay rent in the form of crops. Economic slavery.
Sharecropper/Sharecropping
Journalist that Exposed the Truth about Lynching's in America
Ida B. Wells
A statement said by President Wilson that consisted of his goals like, smaller military forces, freedom of the seas and free trade
Wilson's Fourteen Points
President FDR's policies during the Great Depression shows his belief that?
A) The government should never become involved in the economy.
B) The government should intervene in the economy.
C) The Great Depression was caused by labor union strikes.
D) None of the Above
B) The government should intervene in the economy.
Name three states hit with a lot of dust:
Texas New Mexico Colorado Nebraska Kansas
Amendment that allowed all people born in the U.S. to be citizens
14th Amendment
The Amendment made it illegal to make, transport, and sell alcohol. a side effect was an increase in crime.
18th amendment
An attack by a Germany U-boat on May 1915 on a ship that resulted in a killing of 1,198 people, including 128 Americans.
The sinking of the Lusitania
Which New Deal Program aimed to help the old, retired, unemployed, and injured?
Social Security Act
Who took the famous photo Migrant Mother
Dorthea Lange
The name of the terrorist, white supremacy organization, that sought to block the civil rights of newly free African Americans through violence and crime.
KKK
Was one of the most powerful political bosses and the head of a New Your City Political Machine
Boss Tweed
The military vehicle that Germany used to combat Great Britain's blockade
U Boat
Which New Deal agency gave short term jobs to men that required cleaning parks, cutting down trees, etc?
Civilian Conservation Corps
Four causes of the dust bowl
high winds, drought, over-farming, extreme heat