WWI
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization and exploitation of indigenous peoples, usually with a military presence.
What is Imperialism?
This type of music became popular during the 20's with artists such as Duke Ellington
What is Jazz?
This was the Amendment to the constitution that secured women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This was the president during the Stock Market Crash of 1929, and is remembered for the shantytowns that were named after him
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This act was a permanent system of federal old-age benefits, unemployment insurance, and welfare assistance
What is Social Security?
This is where civilians saw themselves as a part of the war effort and supported the troops on American soil
What is the Homefront?
This was the US foreign policy following WWI
What is isolationism?
This woman was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She wrote about contemporary issues in the black community and became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Her short satires, drew from the African-American experience and racial division in the South.
Who was Zora Neale Hurston?
This group of people were hit harder when the great depression hit, they were only 4% of the population in Chicago but represented 16% of the unemployed.
Who are African Americans?
This was the president that followed Herbert Hoover, and created programs such as the New Deal for the American people
Who was FDR?
An international organization established after WWI to promote peace and cooperation among countries, although it ultimately failed to prevent future conflicts
Who were the League of Nations?
This was the type of economy and stock market that had low unemployment and high optimism
What is a Bull Market?
This woman was a pioneer of the women’s suffrage movement was the president National Woman Suffrage Association
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
This was the main day that brought the Roaring 20's to an end and led to the Great Depression
What was Black Tuesday?
This was the next phase of the New Deal, which focused on long-term reform, economic security, and aiding the poor and unemployed. Key measures included the Social Security Act, Wagner Act, and Works Progress Administration (WPA), aiming to strengthen labor rights and create a robust social safety net.
What is the Second New Deal?
Long, narrow ditches used for military defense, often dug into the ground to protect soldiers from enemy fire known to have rats, dead bodies of soldiers, and lots of mud.
What are the Trenches?
The Voldstead Act was also known as this
What is Prohibition?
This woman's suffrage activist was arrested during the protests in 1917 and sentenced to seven months in prison, where she started a hunger strike.
Who was Alice Paul?
The stock market crashed due a myriad of issues but specifically because of the fact that bankers and stock traders were trading on what?
What is credit? (buying on the margin)
This an independent U.S. federal agency tasked with administering and enforcing the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
What is the NLRB?
These were payments that Germany was forced to make to the Allies to compensate for damages caused during the war.
What are Reparations?
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This was the flourishing of African American culture, literature, music, and art, centered in NYC,
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This woman was a prominent journalist who wrote for several Black newspapers, is a civil rights icon who served as an intrepid leader of the women’s suffrage movement, promoting the rights of Black women even when it wasn’t popular among white suffragists. She cofounded the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 and the NAACP in 1909.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
This tariff made it harder to sell in European markets and did the opposite of supporting the American economy, by off setting costs onto the American working class.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
This is the influential, yet informal, benchmark for evaluating a U.S. President's early performance, setting the tone for their administration and measuring legislative success
What is the first 100 days?