This addition to the Monroe Doctrine allowed the use of gunboats and naval occupation in order to collect European debts from Latin American nations.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
100
Term used to describe published materials that revealed the political scandals and social problems at the turn of the century.
What is muckraking?
100
Although the US remained neutral for most of the War, the US remained economic tied to this group of nations.
What is Allied Powers?
100
This product replaced the railroad industry as the key promoter of economic growth and changed the way Americans lived.
What is the automobile?
100
Many economist believe that over-speculation caused this.
What is the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
200
This nation's fight for freedom and their suffering under the rule of General Weyler "the Butcher" lead Americans to believe war was necessary. Later, the US controlled this nation's foreign policy with the Platt Amendment
What is Cuba?
200
This social movement divided rural and urban progressives. Well- organized rural reformers, many of them women, believed that this could solve a host of social problems.
What is temperance or prohibition?
200
This discovery lead Americans to believe that Germany expect to be at war with the US.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
200
Motivated my deteriorating race relations and increased economic opportunity, a million African American moved North in this decades-long event.
What is the Great Migration?
200
This ecological disaster forced mass migration of farmers from the Great Plains to California.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
Term for exaggerated journalism, like the "purposeful" sinking of the Maine, which contributed to hawkish ideas.
What is Yellow Journalism?
300
Roosevelt used this act, established in 1890, to break-up "bad trusts".
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
300
These acts, upheld by Schenck v United States, made it illegal to try to obstruct the draft or speak against the US government.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
300
During this "rebirth", poets, such as Langston Hughes, and musicians, such as Duke Ellington, expressed the African American experience.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
The Wagner Act of 1935 guaranteed a worker's right to do to this
What is Unionize?
400
This US president believed that the US could best support its enterprises abroad through"dollar diplomacy"-- investments abroad rather than military action.
Who is William Howard Taft?
400
While gaining limited political power, this political party's ideas of public ownership of utilities, 8-hour-workdays, and pensions, because accepted by Progressives.
What is the Socialist Party?
400
Despite Wilson's work on and dedication to this international organization, congress did not accept US membership.
What is the League of Nations?
400
This trial highlighted the tension between the ideas of fundamentalists and modernists.
What is the Scopes Trial?
400
This recovery act gave jobs to 3.4 million Americans, mostly for construction, but also for work in the arts.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
500
This president, despite meddling in Latin American affairs, called for a "New Freedom" and a moral approach to foreign affairs.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
500
Unlike his counterpart, Booker T. Washington, this African American leader believed establishing economic security would best advance the African American community.
Who is DuBois?
500
This sentiment, evident in events like the Palmer Raids, was fueled by Communist takeover in Russia and labor unrest at home.
What is the Red Scare?
500
Beginning in 1921, these laws were set to reduce immigration from specific areas, like Eastern and Southern Europe
What are Quota Laws?
500
This act reversed the Dawes Act of 1887 and returned land to tribes with the goal of preserving American Indian cultures.