APUSH
Places that offered services to newly arrived immigrants. Included Jane Addams's Hull House
Settlement Houses
Organization led by figures like Charles Lindbergh which advocated American neutrality at the beginning of WWII.
America First Committee
Spoils System
Gave women the right to vote nationwide
19th Amendment
Printing false or exaggerated headlines in order to sell more newspapers. Was a primary cause of the Spanish American War
Yellow Journalism
Stated that all people born in the United States were citizens and that everyone had equal protection under the law. Repealed the Dred Scott decision by making former slaves citizens
14th Amendment
Main group that protested British taxes leading up to the Revolution. Started boycotts, protests, spread propaganda, and organized the Boston Tea Party. Led by figures like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere
Sons of Liberty
The first successful English Colony in America. At first it struggled but tobacco made it rich
Jamestown
Japanese American who sued the government for interning Japanese Americans without trial in WWII. Supreme Court ruled against him
Fred Korematsu
Organized integrated protests against segregation where northern students would tour the south protesting for civil rights. Organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Freedom Rides
Event led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton which launched the women's suffrage movement
Seneca Falls Convention
The main debate between environmentalists like Muir and Pinchot during the early 1900s was...
Conservation vs Preservation
Corrupt system where politicians would offer jobs and services to immigrants and poor workers in exchange for votes. They would select their own candidates without public involvment
Political Machine
Failed CIA operation where Cuban exiles were trained and tried to invade and overthrow Castro. Led to Castro turning to the USSR for protection.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Plan by Ben Franklin to unite the colonies during the Seven Years War. It did not happen but the idea of united colonies persisted
Albany Plan of Union
In response to the Boston Tea Party the British passed a new Quartering Act, the Coercive Acts, and the Quebec Act. All of these together became known as.....
The Intolerable Acts
An easing of tensions with the USSR and China. Started during the Nixon administration and ended with the election of Ronald Reagan
Detente
Favored tax cuts to the middle class and wealthy which benefitted them. Cut back Great Society welfare programs. Created a stock market boom but some working class and poor did not benefit.
Reagonomics (supply side economics)
The main foreign policy of the United States during the Cold War.
Truman Doctrine (Containment)
Woodrow Wilson plan for peace during the Versailles Peace Conference after WWI. It included self determination of nations, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations to settle international disputes
14 Points
Corrupt political machine that stole millions of dollars from NYC
Tweed Ring (Boss Tweed)
Women who rebelled against societal norms in the 1920s who wore short skirts.
Flappers
Meeting between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin which set up the borders of post war Europe and established the United Nations
Yalta Conference
Allowed the President to send combat troops into Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The U.S. program during WWII led by Robert Oppenheimer and General Groves which created the Atomic Bomb
Manhattan Project