The Progressive Era
A new generation of journalists exposing the ills of industrial and urban life.
Muckraking Journalists
TR's addition to the Monroe Doctrine that held the US had the right to exercise "an international police power" in the Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt Corollary
Disillusioned with conservativism in American politics and the materialism of culture they became American expatriates in Paris.
The Lost Generation
Launched in 1934 as a movement calling for the confiscation of most of the wealth in America in order to finance grants and guarantee jobs of citizens.
Share Our Wealth Movement
Passed by Congress in 1935 banning travel on belligerents' ships and the sale of arms to countries at war.
Neutrality Acts
Devoted her life to improving the lives of the immigrant poor by modeling a similar version in London with the settlement house she founded.
Jane Addams
Moral Diplomacy
Scandal involving the leasing government oil reserves to private businessmen.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Barred commercial banks from becoming involved in the buying and selling of stocks, preventing the practices leading to the stock market crash.
Glass-Steagall Act
Issued by FDR banning discrimination in defense jobs and establishing the FEPC.
Executive Order 8802
Insisted experience was more important than doctrine and institutions which must be judged by concrete effects.
Pragmatism
The attempt to create a homogenous national culture by nativists.
Assimilation through Americanization
Lead feminist behind the ERA and a member of the National Women's Party.
Alice Paul
Signed by President Hoover in 1930 making the economic situation worse by raising already high taxes on imported goods.
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Initially meant the elimination of barriers to international trade but became linked to protecting the future "standard of living of Americans".
Freedom from want
Program of a progressive president that attempted to confront the problems caused by economic consolidation by determining "good" and "bad" corporations
The Square Deal
Created to explain to Americans the cause of democracy and the defense of its liberties by flooding the country with WWI propaganda.
Committee on Public Information
A society that glories in ethnic diversity rather than attempting to suppress it and that toleration was part of the "American idea".
Cultural Pluralism
A period during the mid-1930s when the Communist party sought to ally itself with socialists and New Dealers for social change.
The Popular Front
The Supreme Court case that declared the use of all-white primaries to be unconstitutional as it disenfranchised African Americans.
Smith v. Allwright 1944
Exempted labor unions from antitrust laws and barred courts from issuing injunctions curtailing the right to strike.
Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
A short-lived but intense period of political intolerance inspired by the postwar strike wave, social tensions, and fears from the Russian Revolution.
The Red Scare
The attempt by employers to combat unions by providing employees private pensions, medical insurance plans, job security, greater workplace safety, and paying attention to the "human factor" in employment.
Welfare Capitalism
Prohibited both members of a marriage from holding federal jobs leading to the dismissal of many female civil service employees.
Economy Act of 1932
Meeting that created the framework for the postwar capitalist economic system based on a freer international flow of goods and investment with the US as the world's financial leader.
Bretton Woods Conference