Politics and Power
Compared to FDR's "New Deal", Truman argued for a ____ ____. It's goal was to provide more equitable protection for all citizens following WWII
What is the Fair Deal?
Henry Ford and his means of production of automobiles later influenced individual mobility; this production method revolutionized industry
What are Assembly lines?
This note was sent from Germany to Mexico encouraged the country to start a war with the U.S., however, the U.S. intercepted it
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Woodrow Wilson signed into law legislation creating the ____ to support the conservation and preservation of lands for the enjoyment of future generations on August 25, 1916
What is the National Park Service?
This amendment, ratified in 1913, gave the U.S. government the right to collect an income tax (beyond war measures)
What is the 16th amendment?
This was the name for Taft’s mildly expansionist foreign policy of promoting U.S. trade by supporting American enterprises abroad
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
Although the nation was rapidly industrializing, this sector was almost 25% of the labor force ahead of the 1930s. It being such a large percentage of the workforce led greatly to the Great Depression
What is Agriculture/Farming?
This act placed a numerical cap on the number of immigrants from various countries. It was based on a census taken before the most recent wave of "new immigrants", and would end up blocking many Jews from escaping the holocaust prior to WWII
What is the Immigration Quota Act (of 1924)?
Great Plains region suffered severe drought and experienced massive dust storms during the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The Soviet Launch of this rocket, novel technology, pushed America to race headfirst into the "space race"
What is Sputnik?
This 1919 supreme court case affirmed limitation of free speech put in place during WWI. It argued that speech could be limited if it presented a "Clear and Present danger"
The type of tactic that Carnegie used to consolidate his interest; is when a company acquires all the complementary industries that support its business
What is Vertical Integration?
This ideology, taken from the title of a Rudyard Kipling work, expanded the concept of Manifest destiny abroad
What is the "White Man's Burden"?
A massacre took place in this midwestern city in late may/early june of 1921
What is Tulsa?
Cultural exchange: this great period of cultural creation in the Black community is so named after a New York Neighborhood
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This addendum to the Monroe Doctrine given by the current president pushed that, if it looked as though European countries were preparing to become entangled in Central or South American countries, America reserved the right to invade them first
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
A company that owns part or all of the other companies' stock to extend monopoly control
What is a Holding Company?
This naval officer argued that the defining characteristic of great empires was the might of their navy. In turn, he argued that American needed to develop its navy, an argument used to push for American expansion so as to acquire refueling points
Who is Mahan?
This period of great geographic shift began in the African American community largely due to "replacement recruiting" during the war while white male industrial laborers were gone
What is the Great Migration
This law was ratified to ensure workers over the age of 65, along with those disabled, could have financial stability when retired
What is the Social Security Act (of 1935)?
During World War I, two main acts criminalized disloyal action towards draft/nationalistic military efforts. Name one or both of them
What is the Espionage Act (of 1917)? OR What is the Sedition Act (of 1918)?
This act allowed the US to more fully recover from the Great Depression, maintaining the semblance of neutrality while providing aid to the Allies. It pushed America's industrial war machines to top production
What is the Lend Lease Act?
American Worked to exert its power globally using this policy enforced upon china. It worked to prevent one country form monopolizing trade with China
What is the Open Door Policy?
This historical work evaluated the impact of the closing of the frontier on American culture, and how the frontier had been defining for American culture
What is Turner's Thesis?
The name of these Shantytowns after the 31st president because of the laissez-faire economics he practiced leading into the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?