Imperialism
Believed less in the "Big Stick" approach and more in "Dollar Diplomacy"
Who was Taft?
The widespread fear of the spread of communism after the 1917 Russian Revolution.
What is the Red Scare?
2 new forms of entertainment that helped create a mass American culture
What is the radio and movies?
Buying stocks on margin, overproduction, uneven production of wealth
What are the causes of the Great Depression?
A series of legislation supported by Franklin Delano Roosevelt aimed at assisting the American people during the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
The country where the US supported the "Open Door Policy"
What is China?
The group who grew in the 1920's who were against Black Americans, Catholics and immigrants
Who was the KKK
Modern women who celebrated more rights, wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and danced to jazz.
What is a flapper? (Not a hoe)
He believed in "rugged individualism," refused to give people direct aid, and was responsible for the "Bonus Army" incident
Who was Hoover
An example of a New Deal relief program
May be these or another... What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, What is the CCC, What is the Emergency Banking Act, What is the Public Works Administration
To decrease trading time between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean for the US and other countries.
What was the purpose of the Panama Canal?
The 18th Amendment, the 21st Amendment and the Volstead Act
What is prohibition?
Allowed middle class Americans to buy modern conveniences such as vacuum cleaners, refrigerators and other time-saving devices.
What is the extension of credit?
Severe dust storms in the American plain states caused by drought and overworking of the soil in the 1930s that caused migration to California
What is the Dust Bowl?
An example of a New Deal Recovery Program
What is the National (Industrial) Recovery Act? What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act? What is the Works Progress Act?
He was president during the Spanish American War.
Who was McKinley
The trial that highlighted fundamentalism vs. science in education
What is the Scopes Trial
Allowed people to move out of the city to the suburbs
What is the automobile?
This tariff slowed international trade and made the great depression worse
What is the Hawley Smooth Tariff?
An example of a New Deal Reform program
What is the Social Security Act? What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation? What is the Federal Housing Authority? What is the Security Exchange Commission? Tennessee Valley Authority?
The US emerged as a world power as a result of this war.
Spanish American War
What is Nativism (will accept fear of immigrants)
Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
Who are Harlem Renaissance artists/writers?
Who showed/described the hard times of people in the Great Depression
What is "Court Packing" or adding 6 members to the court