Terms
Increased feeling of pride to a country
What is nationalism?
The name of the period in American history characterized by widespread poverty, unemployment, and economic instability during the 1930s
What is the Great Depression?
created to provide jobs for young, unemployed men during the Great Depression
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Triggered the outbreak of WW1
What is the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
A journalist who exposes problems in society
What is a muckraker?
A policy of extending a country’s power
Forced migration of farmers from the Midwest to the West Coast
What is the Dust Bowl?
This program provided direct financial assistance to elderly Americans, as well as unemployment benefits for workers and aid for dependent children.
What is the Social Security Act?
The Triple Alliance of WW1
What is Great Britain, France and Russia?
An era to address political, social and economic issues
what is the progressive era?
An agreement between two or more parties, not to harm each other
What is an Alliance?
Cultural movement celebrating African American achievements in art, music and poetry
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This program, created in 1933, aimed to provide immediate relief to the unemployed by offering public works jobs like building roads and bridges.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
a secret message from Germany to Mexico, encouraging Mexico to join the war against the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram
Upton Sinclair exposed the unsanitary conditions through this book
What is the Jungle?
A belief and desire to have a strong military in order to defend the country
What is Militarism?
An era in US history with an increase of culture and identity
What is the Roaring Twenties?
President from 1933-1955
who is FDR
It created the League of Nations and required Germany to pay reparations for the war
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A voting practice to prevent intimidation
What is the secret ballot?
shareholders tried to sell their stocks quickly
What is Black Tuesday?
The mass movement of over one million African Americans from the rural South to the North
What is the Great Migration?
Technology used during WW1
What is airplanes, submarines or tanks?
(ANY ONE OF THESE STATED IS THE CORRECT. ALL 3 ARE NOT NEEDED IN ORDER TO BE CORRECT FOR THIS QUESTION)
Why was the prohibition era fail?
-Lack of governmental power to enforce
- Alcohol was still being created