Imperialism
Give one example of American imperialism between 1890-1945
Buying Alaska, Spanish American War, Panama Canal, Annexation of Hawaii, Open Door Policy in China, etc.
Journalist during the Progressive Era who exposed the evils of industrialization and urbanization.
Muckrakers
The name used to describe the "new" woman of the 1920's who wore short hair and dresses and expanded social freedoms.
Flappers
What caused the Great Depression?
Stock Market crash (October 24, 1929)
Describe women's role during the war
Contribute to the war effort by getting jobs or conserving food and other goods.
A foreign policy set forth by President James Monroe indicating that further colonization by Europe in the Western Hemisphere would be considered a hostile act.
The Monroe Doctrine
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" uncovered what issue?
Unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.
An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics
The Harlem Renaissance
A shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States.
Hoovervilles
What was America's foreign policy at the beginning of WWII?
Remain neutral
Give the geographical cause of American Imperialism
Westward expansion ended. There was no more land to move West.
Which US President was known as a "trust buster"
Theodore Roosevelt
The movement of African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
The Great Migration
What ended the Great Depression?
WWII
This officially ended the United States policy of neutrality and isolation.
the attack on Pearl Harbor
US desired access to this Asian country for resources and as a market for US goods.
China
Who argued Rockefeller and his company was a monopoly and wanted to bring an end to Robber Barons?
Ida Tarbell
Describe life for women in the 1920s
Expected to be Homemakers
Employed women usually lived in the cities, were limited to certain categories of jobs as clerks, nurses, teachers, and domestics, and received lower wages than men.
Describe President Hoover's response to the Great Depression
Hoover hesitated to implement any programs to help stop the crash and subsequent poverty. He believed relief programs should not be the federal government's responsibility. By the time he did start implementing programs it is too little, too late.
America will not intervene in Latin America affairs, America will begin economic partnerships with LA countries
The Good Neighbor Policy
How did Yellow Journalism cause the Spanish American War?
It emphasized sensationalism over facts. Caused Americans to be outraged and push US government to intervene in Cuba.
An example of a Federal Law passed to limit the business practices of Monopolies and Big Business.
Sherman Anti Trust Act
Describe the economy in the 1920s
Consumer economy, everyone was buying on credit and spending money
Name one example of what the New Deal did to help America during the Great Depression
Provided jobs, helped recover businesses, reformed economic institutions
Supreme Court decision that said Japanese internment during WWII was in fact constitutional because it was during a time of war.
Korematsu v. US