Urban Issues and Reform
Late 1800s city housing that was overcrowded and unsanitary, often occupied by immigrant families.
What are tenements?
The war in 1898 that gave the United States control of overseas territories like Puerto Rico and Guam.
What is the Spanish-American War?
A major cultural movement in the 1920s centered in New York City that celebrated Black art and music.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The major economic crisis that began after the stock market crash of 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
The 1941 Japanese attack that caused the United States to enter World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The major economic change in the late 1800s that caused rapid city growth and overcrowded housing.
What is industrialization?
Exaggerated newspaper stories that helped push Americans toward supporting war with Spain.
What is yellow journalism?
The large movement of African Americans from the rural South to northern cities during World War I.
What is the Great Migration?
A risky investment practice where people bought stocks with borrowed money before the crash.
What is buying on margin?
The program that allowed the U.S. to supply weapons to Allied nations before entering the war.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Reform efforts in the early 1900s that tried to improve housing, sanitation, and living conditions in cities.
What is the Progressive movement?
The debate over controlling the Philippines after the Spanish-American War raised concerns that the United States was denying this principle to other nations.
What is self-determination?
One major reason for the Great Migration was new factory jobs created by this global conflict.
What is World War I?
Makeshift communities built by homeless Americans during the Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
During World War II, many women took factory jobs producing military equipment for the war effort.
What is wartime mobilization?
Many reformers who pushed for housing and sanitation improvements came from this social class.
What is the middle class?
Opponents of imperialism argued that controlling the Philippines violated the ideals of this founding document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
African Americans also left the South to escape this system of racial segregation and discrimination.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The New Deal program that paid farmers to reduce crop production to raise prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
Before entering WWII, many Americans debated whether the country should follow this policy of avoiding foreign wars.
What is isolationism?
A key goal of Progressive reformers was to use this level of government to regulate housing and sanitation.
What is government regulation?
Supporters of imperialism often argued the U.S. needed overseas territories for this economic reason.
What are new markets for trade?
Northern cities that gained large African American populations during the Great Migration included this major Midwestern city.
What is Chicago?
The U.S. economy did not fully recover from the Great Depression until this global war increased production.
What is World War II?
Franklin Roosevelt argued the U.S. should help defend this type of government around the world.
What is democracy?