Progressive Era
Upton Sinclair was the muckraker who wrote this book which exposed the meatpacking industry and the troubles associated with it.
What is The Jungle?
In President Wilson's speech to Congress about the need for the US to enter WWI, he made the argument it was necessary to do this.
What is make the world safe for democracy?
This is a manufacturing process that was invented by Henry Ford where a product moves along a line of workers and machines, each performing a specific task until the product is completed, enabling mass production
What is the assembly line?
The informal radio talks President FDR had with Americans during the Great Depression
What were Fireside Chats?
Most important law passed during the New Deal. Provides help to the elderly, unemployed, disabled. Changed the role of the federal government to where the government is now expected to help those in need.
What is the Social Security Act or the Social Security Administration?
This US president helped to create the Panama Canal, was known as being a trust buster and a conservationist.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
The British passenger ship destroyed by a German U-boat submarine. This event contributed to Americans wanting to get involved in WWI.
What is the Luisitania?
This motion passed in 1920 was a result of a centuries-long push by women to earn the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
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.
What was The Great Migration?
This provided insurance for depositors in American commercial banks and savings of up to $250,000 if a bank failed and continues to exist today.
What is the FDIC?
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
The discovery of this disclosed German promise to help Mexico attack the US if the US declared war on Germany.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
The largest event of racial violence in the United States that happened in 1921 and targeted African Americans after an incident involving a white elevator operator and a black shoe store employee.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
This was part of the slate of New Deal Programs. It was intended to help farmers and did so by having the government buy livestock for slaughter and paid subsidies to farmers to have them not plan on part of their land. It also authorized the government to set quotas for major crops.
What is the AAA or Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
This New Deal program employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects including the construction of public buildings and roads, murals, and even interviews with formerly enslaved individuals.
What is the WPA?
Civil Rights leader known for encouraging the African American community to "cast down their buckets" in his "Atlanta Compromise" Speech.
Who was Booker T Washington?
The alliance between Britain, France, and Russia during WWI.
What was the Triple Entente?
This was a vibrant cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s, centered in New York City, where African Americans expressed their identity and heritage through art, literature, music, and other forms of expression
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Hoover created this in an attempt to protect US factories from foreign competition. This backfired though, because European nations stopped buying US goods.
What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
This employed about 3 million men to work on projects that benefitted the public. Was a part of FDR's New Deal.
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps?
This person was jailed during the Pullman Strike and founded the Socialist Party. He also ran for president from his jail cell.
Who was Eugene V. Debs?
This international organization, which was the brainchild of President Woodrow Wilson, was founded in 1920 after World War I to prevent future conflicts through diplomacy and cooperation, but ultimately failed to prevent World War II. The US never joined.
What was the League of Nations?
A case held during the 1920s in which two Italian American anarchists were found guilty and executed for a crime in which there was very little evidence linking them to the particular crime.
What is the Sacco-Vanzetti case?
A group of almost 20,000 WWI veterans marched to Washington DC because they needed help from the Great Depression and they wanted their government payout they had earned during the war
What was the Bonus Army?
This body oversees trading on the stock market, investment advisors and mutual funds to promote fair dealing, disclosure of important market information and to prevent fraud.
What is the SEC?