Imperialism/WWI
Event that led to the annexation of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish American War?
Investigative journalists who investigated Gilded Age corruption
Who are muckrakers?
The president during the Great Depression who believed in "rugged individualism"
Who is Hoover?
`Paid farmers to stop farming
What is the AAA?
The program to build an atomic bomb.
What is the Manhatten Project?
Wilson's plan for peace after WWI
What is the 14 Points?
Law giving all American women over 21 the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
During the Great Depression, unemployment reached this unprecedented level.
What is 25%?
The three R's of the New Deal
What is relief, recovery and reform?
This was the American strategy to win the war in the Pacific
What is island hopping?
The movement of African Americans to northern cities during the war.
What is the Great Migration?
Book that revealed the problems with the meat-packing industry of Chicago
What is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
This attempt by Congress to fix the Depression by helping Americans horribly backfired by wrecking foreign trade.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
FDR revolutionized communication and connected with the American people by doing this.
What are fireside chats?
What is Executive Order 9066?
Policy that called for the US to have a large Navy and protect/control Latin America.
What is "Big Stick" Diplomacy/Roosevelt Corollary?
The Progressive presidents
Who are Roosevelt, Taft & Wilson?
Due to mass production, the wide availability of credit and more cheap goods, this rose expedentially in the 1920s
What is consumerism?
This attempt by FDR to stop the Supreme Court from interfering with his New Deal policies was rejected by Congress.
What is the court-packing scheme?
Program that allowed millions of Mexican migrant laborers to migrate into the U.S. to help agricultural production during the war
What is the Bracero Program?
Leader of the Republicans in Congress who opposed the League of Nations.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
What is the Progressive/Bull Moose party?
In a reversal of 40 years of policy, Republicans in the 1920s limited immigration by creating these.
What are the National Origin (Quota) Acts?
What is the welfare state?
Law allowing the U.S. to give weapons and materials to the U.K. and U.S.S.R. without receiving payment
What is the Lend-Lease Act?