American Imperialism
US President who invoked a Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, declaring that the US would protect its interests in Latin America.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This leaked correspondence threatened an alliance between Germany and Mexico as well as unrestricted submarine warfare on the US, becoming a factor that would lead to US involvement in the conflict.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
The 18th Amendment banned the production, sale, and transportation of this intoxicating substance.
What is alcohol?
This US President, a believer in the pro-business Republican politics of the 1920s, was in office during the beginning of the Great Depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
Created by the Glass-Steagal Act, this organization insures the bank deposits of Americans to this day.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
US sugar planters overthrew the monarch of this sovereign nation to pursue their economic interests.
What is Hawaii?
At the beginning of the war, President Wilson wished to keep American out of the conflict, remaining committed to this idea.
What is isolationism?
African Americans who left the South during the Great Migration formed communities that led to a resurgence of African American art, literature, and music in this movement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
What is the Dust Bowl?
This New Deal program offered a government-provided pension to elderly Americans who had lost their savings during the Great Depression.
What is Social Security?
This US Naval ship sank in Havana Harbor in 1898, leading to the Spanish American War.
What is the USS Maine?
What is the League of Nations?
This party controlled the Presidency during the 1920s, maintaining pro-business policies and the 'politics of normalcy'.
What is the Republican Party?
What is nine million Americans?
This New Deal program aimed to help the economy recover by getting Americans back to work in maintaining federal land.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
After the Spanish American War, the U.S. was at odds with an independence movement in this country.
Was is the Philippines?
This group of Americans used the context of the First World War to fight for a right that had been previously been denied to them.
Who are woman's suffragists?
Many of the social and cultural changes during the 1920s led to conflicts between these two groups of Americans.
What are Modernists and Traditionalists?
During the Depression, this economic indicator reaching nearly 25 percent as Americans struggled to find work.
What is the unemployment rate?
This New Deal program regulated the amount of crops that could be grown and bring to market in order to raise prices and support farmers.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
What is "the White Man's Burden"?
This law made it illegal to criticize or interfere with the US war effort during WWI.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This two anarchists were convicted and put to death for murder, although arguments over whether the Red Scare and anti-immigrant sentiment made their trial unfair.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
As the stock market crashed in 1929, investors rapidly sold their remaining stock investment in order to get some of their money back in a action referred to by this term.
What is "panic selling"?
Left-wing critics of the New Deal alleged that the New Deal had supported economic justice, but did not do enough to support this kind of justice.
What is racial justice?