Important "Acts"
divided tribal land into individual plots for Native American
Dawes Act
assimiliation
women's suffrage or right to vote
19th amendment
Two reasons the war started in Europe
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism, assassination of the archduke triggered a series of events
Provide 2/4 Causes of Great Depression
High Tarriffs
Overspeculation
Overproduction
1929 Stock Market Crash
Bad Banking practice or Bank Failures
provide jobs to unemployed Americans by funding public works projects,building roads, bridges, schools, and arts.
WPA Work Progress Administration
prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years
Chinese Exclusion Act
18th amendment
One Reason the U.S. entered World War I
S-Sussex Pledge
L-Lusitinia
U-unrestricted Sub warfare
T-Ties with Britain
Z-Zimmerman Telegram
Provide 2/3 causes of dust bowl
heavy winds
poor farming practices
droughts
soil erosion
Provides pension for elderly or disabled
SSA Social Security Administration
limited immigrants from any given country to 3%
Immigration Act
Immigration Acts of 1921
restored the sale and manufacture of liquor
21st Amendment
He won the Medal of Honor for capturing Germans during World War I, but he didn't like guns.
SGT York
Dorothea Lange
insurance amount is $250,000 per depositor
FDIC
belief that deporting Mexicans would create jobs for "real Americans,"
"Mexican Repatriation Act of 1929
direct election of Senators
17th amendment
One provision of the 14 Points that is considered important includes
Freedom of the Seas,
League of Nations
Recognize Poland as a country
Wrote Novel called Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
provides electricity to over nine million people
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
created a merit-based system for federal employment
Pendleton Act
income tax
16th amendment
This was a plan to prevent future global conflicts
14 points
Fourteen Points
The President that believed in Rugged Individualism
Herbert Hoover
designed to prevent another stock market crash and protect investors