Progressive
Era
Era
What is the term given to people who fought to expose abuses and sought reform for lower class Americans
Muckrakers
Antiimperialists thought America should adhere to this, an idea present in George Washington's Farewell Address.
Isolationism
(or Neutrality)
Term for Sensationalistic reporting that featured bold and lurid headlines of crime, disaster, and scandal. Papers printed exaggerated and false accounts of Spanish atrocities in Cuba.
What is Yellow Journalism?
The passenger ship destroyed by a German u-boat submarine. This event contributed to Americans disfavorably on Germany.
Lusitania
This day is considered the beginning of the Great Depression, when the Stock Market crashed.
Black Tuesday
This President Is known for his 3 C's (Corporate Law, Consumer Protection and Conservation of Natural Resources) AKA the "Square Deal"
Teddy Roosevelt
In 1893, American settlers aided n the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and then petitioned for annexation by the United States of this state
Hawaii
What United States ship Was sunk in Havana, Cuba. Initially blamed on Spain, it was later ruled an accident.
What is the USS Maine?
Wilson's plan for a post war world, including Freedom of the Seas, the Right to Self-Determination, and the League of Nations.
(Wilson's) 14 Points?
This innovation allowed workers to stand in one spot and do repetitive tasks over and over, increasing productivity.
Assembly line?
This practice saw people taking out loans to buy stocks, artificially inflating the stock market.
What is buying on the margin?
How did the U.S. aid Great Britain in the war before declaring war ourselves?
The Lend Lease Act
(Sell & lend them weapons and war goods)
Upton Sinclair was the muckraker who wrote this book which exposed the meatpacking industry and the troubles associated with it.
The Jungle
The idea that people should govern themselves and this principle applied to people everywhere, not just in the Unites States.
What is self-determination?
Name 2 territories the United States acquired from Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish American War.
What are Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Phillipines
Term given to the explosion of literary, artistic and musical among the black community (particularly in NYC)
Harlem Renaissance
Where did people migrate to during the Dust Bowl?
Bonus 100 Points: What were those people called?
California
Bonus: Okies
The name given to the creation of the atomic bombs that were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Manhattan Project
The 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th amendment were Collectively referred to as the "Progressive Amendments." What did any 2 do?
Gotta know these Amendments yourself
All nations would have equal trading privileges in China
What is Open Door Policy?
To demonstrate American naval power, Theodore Roosevelt sent this on an around-the-world cruise
What is the Great White Fleet.
The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.
The Great Migration
One example of a new consumer product in the 1920s that was bought for with credit.
Radio / Automobile
Washing / Sewing Machine
Vacuum Cleaner
This New Deal Program (Still in effect) gave pensions to seniors, and gave everyone a federal number.
What is the Social Security Act
Supreme Court decision that said Japanese internment during WWII was in fact constitutional because it was during a time of war.
Korematsu v. US
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.
Jane Addams
He argued that a strong navy was crucial to a country's ambitions of securing foreign markets and becoming a world power.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
Identify ONE of the three polices of American foreign policy during the three Progressive Presidents: (A) Theodore Roosevelt, (B) William Howard Taft, or (C) Woodrow Wilson.
(A) Roosevelt Corollary
(B) Dollar Diplomacy,
(C) Moral Diplomacy?
EITHER (A) Name the Supreme Court decision declaring the federal government could limit the 1st Amendment right of "freedom of speech" in time of war and if there was a "clear and present danger." OR (B) Name the Congressional Act that was upheld
(A) Schenck v. United States?
(B) Espionage and Sedition Act
Term for the era triggered by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Americans were very paranoid and scared that Communism would overtake America.
Red Scare
These shantytowns of the unemployed were named this to mock the president overseeing the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
It was at this conference that the allies planned for the post-war world, including the division of Germany, democratic elections in Eastern Europe, and the founding of the United Nations.
What is the Yalta Conference?