Imperialism, the Spanish-American War, & Progressives
Progressive era amendments secured the right of these three things that increased the influence of the people on government legislation.
Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
Term used both for the 17th century movement of Puritans and the 19th movement of African Americans from the south to the north.
Great Migration
Event in which Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty accepted bribes for granting oil leases and for agreeing not to prosecute certain criminal suspects
Teapot Dome Scandal
In this money making strategy, investors would borrow most of the cost of the stock, depending on the price of the stock increasing so that they could repay the loan.
Buying on Margin
Character first presented in a song. She was used to encourage women to take defense jobs during WWII
Rosie the Riveter
Demonstrating that he did not favor business nor labor, Teddy Roosevelt won the 1904 presidential election by promising this for everyone.
a Square Deal
Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of the Espionage Act. The Court concluded that the right to free speech can be limited when it represented a "clear and present danger" to public safety.
Schenck v. United States
He established an organization for Black separatism, economic self-sufficiency, and a back-to-Africa movement.
Marcus Garvey
John Steinbeck wrote about the hardships of the Dust Bowl and this group of people who were forced to migrate to California in his work The Grapes of Wrath
"Okies"
This battle was a turning point in the Pacific Theater, ending Japanese expansion
Battle of Midway
Du Bois, along with other members of the Niagara Movement, and a group of White Progressives founded this group which would become one of the most notable and influential civil rights groups
NAACP
After a series of unexplained bombings including one at his front door, the Attorney General ordered mass arrests of anarchists, socialists, and labor agitators. An event known as this.
The Palmer Raids
This court case exemplified the tension between fundamentalists and scientists who promoted the teaching of evolution.
The Scopes "Monkey" Trial
Signed into law by President Hoover, this set significant tax increases on foreign imports, angering European countries and leading to a further decline in international trade.
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Director of the Los Alamos Laboratory. The goal was to create a weapon whose power came from the splitting of the atom
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Teddy Roosevelt orchestrated a revolt against Columbia in order to gain control of the land that would eventually become this.
The Panama Canal
Name two of the three main causes of U.S. entry into WWI
-Zimmerman Telegram
-Russian Revolution (the first one)
-Renewed Submarine attacks (the Lusitania and 5 unarmed US merchant ships)
This young aviator thrilled the world by flying nonstop across the Atlantic from Long Island to Paris.
Charles Lindbergh
Name of the British economist who taught FDR about deficit spending and "priming the pump"
John Maynard Keynes
This General was the commander of the army units in the Southern Pacific who famously vowed, "I will return" when the Japanese conquered the Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
This amendment declared that the U.S. had no intention of taking political control of Cuba and that, once peace was restored to the island, the Cuban people would control their own government.
Teller Amendment
A second revolution in Russia by this group (also known as Communists) resulted in taking the nation out of WWI
Bolsheviks
The works of this group of writers depicted the general disillusionment of the post-WWI era caused by the scorning of religion as hypocritical and the condemning of wartime sacrifices as fraud perpetrated by money interests
"lost generation"
This major labor law of 1935, AKA the National Labor Relations Act, replaced the labor provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act and guaranteed a worker's right to join a union and a union's right to bargain collectively.
Wagner Act
This wartime conference was the first time the "Big Three" met and was when it was decided that the British and Americans were begin their drive to liberate France and the Soviets would invade Germany.
Tehran Conference