Making Money
The regional plan that included racial segregation while developing economically without any Northern interference.
What is the New South?
A socialist presidential candidate concerned with "class warfare."
Who is Eugene Debs?
The event that shares this view, "Negro artists who create now intend to express our dark skinned selves without fear or shame."
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The political group that had preceded John Maynard Keynes on the philosophy of government intervention in the economy.
Who are the Progressives?
"They had profaned their constitution by interning tens of thousands of citizens largely because of their race." refers to this WWII Executive Order.
What is E.O. 9066 calling for Japanese internment?
The 20th century legislative statement that independent nations of the Americas should remain free from European intervention.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The 14th of the Fourteen Points outlines plans for this international organization?
What is the League of Nations?
The economic opportunities for minorities created by WWI led to this escape to the North.
What is the Great Migration?
The body that most effectively opposed FDR's New Deal programs.
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
Roosevelt's meeting with Churchill in August 1941, to agree on postwar aims.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
How the U.S. occupation of Cuba, Guam, and the Philippines was earned.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The organization that most heavily influenced alcohol prohibition in the 20th century.
What is the Women's Temperance League?
The economic system active during the Roaring 20's?
What is laissez-faire/free-market capitalism?
The movement of Okies to California in reaction to this.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Mexico Farm Labor Agreement with the U.S.
What is the Bracero Program?
A term for what the Populists wanted in reference to the money supply.
What is bimetallism or "free silver"?
This led to Russia's hasty exit from WWI.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
FDR's most difficult and stubborn task related to improving the economy throughout the Great Depression.
What is unemployment?
Salvaging tin cans and waste fats, price ceilings, and gov't assured supplies.
What is war rationing?
“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. . . Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
What is the assembly line?
"Any man who seeks to set limit upon these rights, whether in war or peace, aims a blow at the most vital part of our government." (October 1917)
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
Organization that drastically increased its membership during the 1920s due to Fundamentalist beliefs and willingness for violence.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
In 1933, this legislation provided for Federal Reserve regulation of bank investments.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
"We had the full backing of our government, combined with the nearly infinite potential of American science, engineering and industry, and an almost unlimited supply of people endowed with ingenuity and determination." -Leslie Richard Groves
What is the Manhattan Project?