Significant People
This president introduced a number of social welfare and economic recovery programs during the Great Depression.
Who is FDR?
This trial regarded the teaching of evolution in American schools.
What is the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial?
This was a message from Germany to Mexico, encouraging an attack on the USA.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Popular film that led to an increase in KKK members and racist/anti immigrant ideology. It was screened at the white house by President Wilson.
What is Birth of a Nation?
This president was responsible for the post-WWI Fourteen Points Address, encouraging worldwide freedom of the seas, colonial self-rule, and the creation of the League of Nations.
Who is Wilson?
Term that refers to Progressive Era activists using their platforms to bring attention to social/economic/political injustice.
What are “Muckrakers”?
This term refers to backers of American expansionist ideology, like “Make war, not peace” and “might makes right.”
What is Jingoism?
Period of time after the Bolshevik revolution where immigrants and radicals were targeted by the U.S. Attorney General.
What is the First Red Scare/the Palmer Raids?
This ship’s sinking marked the start of the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
Not to be confused with the Fourteen Points Address, this speech was given by FDR to sway public opinion on WWII, encouraging Americans to support the Allies.
What is the Four Freedoms speech?
Name of the Native American forces who created the “unbreakable code” used by the US military during WWII.
What are the Navajo Code Talkers?
Used by women in the Progressive Era, this was a rehash of a past sentiment used as an exemplar of women’s importance in American society.
What is Republican Motherhood?
Conflict between racial groups as a result of Great Migration tensions and the death of a black teenager.
What are the 1919 Chicago Race Riots?
This was the first widely accessible automobile.
What is the Model T Ford?
Nativism, in the context of the first Red Scare, would cause the implementation of this first immigration quota.
What is the Emergency Quota Act of 1921? OR
What is the Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act)?
This is the author of The Jungle, which exposed the meat-packing industry’s conditions and led to increased government inspection.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Executive Order issued by F.D.R. during WWII, which desegregated the defense industry.
What is Executive Order 8802, issued 1941?
The rising of an independence movement of islanders on this island, which was repressed by Spain, would lead to the Spanish American War’s start.
What is Cuba?
These were figures idolized on the radio and newly-invented audio media.
What are "talkies"?
This writer used the 1890 Census as evidence to argue that the American frontier was “closed,” to the nation’s detriment.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
This president began an era of “trust-busting” and emphasized environmental conservation efforts through the creation of national parks.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Response to Japanese-American internment after WWII, which gave monetary compensation and a formal apology to formerly-interned citizens.
What is the Civil Liberties Act 1988?
1944 Supreme Court ruling pertaining to Japanese internment that allowed for a violation of civil liberties-- “Internment is a burden of citizenship.”
What was the Korematsu Supreme Court ruling?
This Revolutionary-era slogan was repurposed by the women’s rights/suffrage movement.
What is “no taxation without representation”?
This 1932 doctrine, which stated that the US would not recognize its territorial possessions gained by force, would be abandoned on Dec. 7, 1941.
What is the Stimson Doctrine?