Imperialism
This 1898 amendment promised the U.S. would not annex Cuba after winning the Spanish-American War.
What is the Teller Amendment?
This post-WWI movement feared communists, anarchists, and radicals, leading to the Palmer Raids and the founding of the FBI.
What is the Red Scare?
This generation of writers, including Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, became disillusioned with American materialism and the effects of WWI.
Who are the Lost Generation?
This 1929 event marked the beginning of the Great Depression and was fueled by too much borrowed money and speculative investments.
What is the Wall Street Crash?
This anti-democratic movement, led by figures like Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini, gained traction in the 1920s due to the Treaty of Versailles and a desire for territorial expansion.
What is Fascism?
This book by Josiah Strong argued for American exceptionalism and justified imperialism through a racialized "White Man’s Burden."
What is Our Country?
This 1920s scandal involved government officials leasing oil reserves to private companies in exchange for bribes.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Right after WWI, the United States experienced this economic condition, marked by 10% unemployment and soaring inflation.
What is a postwar recession?
Despite widespread economic hardship, President Hoover believed this approach, largely hands-off, would allow the economy to fix itself without government intervention.
What is Laissez-Faire?
This committee investigated the role of arms manufacturers in WWI, leading to a more isolationist sentiment in the U.S. by revealing that war was fought to benefit bankers and the wealthiest.
What is the Nye Committee?
This doctrine, expanded by Theodore Roosevelt, justified U.S. intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Which muckracker does this apply to?
Who is Jacob Riis?
This tariff, passed in 1922 under President Harding, raised taxes on imported goods to protect American industries after WWI.
What is the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?
This New Deal program, created to build infrastructure projects and provide jobs, created some of the country’s most iconic roads, bridges, and parks.
What is the Public Works Administration (PWA)?
This 1935 act imposed an embargo on arms sales to warring nations, and by 1937, adopted the “cash-and-carry” policy for non-military trade with warring countries.
What is the Neutrality Act of 1935?
Passed during WWI, this law made it illegal to speak or act in ways seen as opposing the U.S. war effort, later upheld in Schneck v. United States.
What is the Sedition Act?
This 1924 law severely restricted immigration by setting nationality-based quotas, favoring Northern and Western Europeans.
What is the National Origins Act?
Why did the US not join the League of Nations?
The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. Key factors in this decision included concerns about infringing on American sovereignty, the potential for being drawn into European conflicts, and the perceived limitations of the League's ability to enforce its decisions.
During his first 100 days, FDR launched a wave of programs called "Alphabet Agencies" to address these three major goals, also known as the Three R’s.
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
Name the big world leaders present at the Yalta Conference and match them to their country
The Yalta Conference in 1945 brought together three key leaders: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
This treaty, negotiated by John Hay, secured U.S. rights to build a canal through Panama after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty?
This Supreme Court case reversed previous protections for women workers by voiding minimum wage laws for women in Washington, D.C.
What is Adkins v. Children's Hospital?
After WWI, this financial district solidified New York City as the global economic capital, fueled by banking and international investments.
What is Wall Street?
This Roosevelt plan to add more justices to the Supreme Court after it ruled parts of the New Deal unconstitutional was widely criticized as "court-packing."
What is the Court Reorganization Plan?
This famous American symbol encouraged women to enter the workforce during WWII to fill labor shortages, despite facing discrimination and lack of childcare.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?