American Studies I -Final Exam Review

Famous Faces

100

He was the U.S. president who "kept us out of war" in 1916. 

Woodrow Wilson

200

He was blamed for the Great Depression . . . though it wasn't his fault. 

Herbert Hoover

300

In the 1920s this "cool" and "silent" president promoted laissez-faire economics. 

Calvin Coolidge

400

In 1904, this Progressive President promised the U.S. a Square Deal, built a canal, and waved a "big stick."

Theodore Roosevelt

500

He led the Communist Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution in 1917. 

Vladimir Lenin

Early 20th-century society

100

This term described the carefree woman of the 1920s. 

Flapper

200

This period in U.S. history is one in which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol was illegal. 

Prohibition

300

Founded in 1909 by W.E.B. DuBois, this organization worked to protect the civil and political rights of African Americans

NAACP

400

These were the THREE R's of the New Deal

Relief, Recovery, Reform

500

People fled segregation and "Jim Crow Era" discrimination during the ___________, c. 1916-1970. 

Great Migration

Actions and Attitudes

100

Americans supported isolationism at the turn of the 20th century; during WWI, the U.S. declared its _____________. 

Neutrality

200

The U.S. acquired Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines during the it's "age of ______________."

Imperialism

300

Fear of communism in the 1920s led to a period known as the _________________. 

Red Scare

400

This group of WWI veterans demanded their pensions early; the government denied them an early payout. 

Bonus Army

500

The increase in consumer _________ during the 1920s was a clear economic danger sign before the Great Depression. 

Debt

Money and Power

100

In the early 1900s, this group of people believed the Federal government should be more accountable to its citizens. 

Progressives

200

Hands off economic policy

Laissez-faire

300

The U.S. feared this economic system in the early 1920s

Communism

400

This free market economic system is used in the U.S.

Capitalism

500

Germany had to pay 33 billion dollars of these after World War I. 

Reparations

Misc.

100

This amendment granted people the right to directly elect their senators. 

17th amendment

200

He won the 1920 presidential election. 

Warren G. Harding

300

As FDR's first lady, she advocated for meaningful change in the United States. 

Eleanor Roosevelt

400

The environmental and economic disaster resulted in many people moving to California and working as migrant laborers. 

Dust Bowl

500

This outspoken critic of the New Deal argued the federal government needed to do more to help its citizens; he was assassinated in 1935. 

Huey Long