Progressivism
What was the NAACP and what does it stand for?
A civil rights organization that fights for racial equality and justice in the United States; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Which nation did the US stage a coup in 1893? (Double points if you can spell the leader’s name)
Hawaii; Queen L i l i u o k a l a n i
What was the nickname of the day that the market crashed? (Bonus points for the month and year)
What is Black Tuesday? October 1929
What were FDR’s Four Freedoms?
Freedom Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Want, Freedom from Fear
What is the event that led to the genocide of a significant population of minorities in Europe?” (Double points if you can state the amount of people who died)
What is the Holocaust; 12 million people in total/6 million Jews?
Who were the two main progressive presidents during the early 20th century? Name one progressive ideal they had.
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt pushed for breaking trusts and regulate the businesses, railroads and food
Wilson Federal Reserve System, to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system
What was the Open Door policy?
The allowance for all nations to trade with the chinese market, in hope that the US economy would be able to take over
What were FDR's three R’s, or main goals in reconstruction?
What is relief, recovery, and reform?
What did Korematsu vs U.S. decide?
The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 to uphold the constitutionality of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The court ruled that the internment was a military necessity, for protection not based on race.
Who led American naval forces with allied Filipino rebels in 1898?
Who was George Dewey?
What was the effect of the Temperance Movement on women and families?
Allowed for alcohol to be banned and have safer environments for living, as well as public health
How did the Panic of 1893 impact America’s beginning to imperialism?
It was an economic downturn that left Americans unable to absorb additional consumer goods that caused them to look towards other means of production in other areas.
What system did Hoover establish in order to help rebuild in response to the Great Depression?
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
What was the significance of the CasaBlanca Conference?
FDR and Churchill announced that the Allies would accept nothing less than Germany's unconditional surrender to end the war.
Who was the significant black figure that fought for equality for black Americans, and social and economic reform, and helped found the NAACP? (He argued that the talented 10th of the black population should be given full access opportunities.)
Who is WEB Du Bois?
How did Theodore Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” help reflect his progressive ideals?
Square Deal consisted of increased regulation of business, workers’ right to organize, eight-hour work days, pure food and drug laws, income and inheritance taxes on the wealthy.
How did the Treaty of Paris increase American imperialism and expand their influence?
As a part of the negotiation, Spain gave the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the US and allowed the American government to rule them however it was largely debated.
What plan allowed for aid in Germany paying off debt, and pushed for economic recovery in Europe?
What is the Dawes Plan?
How did the Great Migration affect African Americans in terms of their involvement in society during WWI?
Many when moving north joined wartime jobs, and this allowed for more diversity in the military which helped reshape societal expectations.
Who was the president and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters who organized a march on Washington DC to protest treatment of black workers in government industries?
Who is A. Phillip Randolph?
What is the term to describe emphasis on preserving natural resources for future generations? What service did it lead to?
Conservationism; United States Forest Service (USFS)
What was the Dollar Diplomacy?
A foreign policy used by the United States to increase its influence and economic power abroad through lending money and investing in foreign countries
What act in 1935 allowed for employees to form unions, bargain, and take collective action?
What is the Wagner Act, or the National Labor Relations Act?
What was the main purpose of the Zimmermann Note, and why did it fail?
It was Germany’s proposal for Mexico to attack the U.S., but it was intercepted and decoded by the British.
What persuaded the Supreme Court to accept the constitutionality of laws protecting women workers by presenting evidence that the factory labor had a strong effect on women's weaker bodies?
What is Muller v. Oregon case?