vocab
The idea that people born in the United States were superior to immigrants
What is nativism?
This was signed at the end of WWI to secure peace and deal with Germany.
What is The Treaty of Versailles
Means making a large number of products quickly
What is mass production?
The shelters that jobless people built
What is Hoovervilles?
Americans were relieved when the war was over and became very interested in what type of people
Who are celebrities?
to make a country or a territory part of another country
What is annex?
The United States bought Alaska from who?
Who is Russia?
This was built to create a shortcut between oceans
What is the Panama Canal?
President Hoover helped Americans during the Great Depression by asking businesses to stop cutting wages, authorizing spending on public works projects, and ___
What is asked people to be more charitable?
The stock market crash in October of 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
someone who leaves their native country and lives somewhere else for awhile.
What is expatriate?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria make up which group?
Who is the Central Powers?
This banned child labor
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act
Congress pass this law because there were negative feelings toward immigration.
What is The Emergency Quota Act?
Built to create a shortcut between oceans
What is the Panama Canal?
a group of vehicles that travel together to provide better protections.
What is convoy?
This person became famous by flying across the Atlantic Ocean alone.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
People who left the dust bowl area and moved to California
Who are the okies?
In an effort to get all of the troops and resources to Europe the government did what?
What is raised taxes on individuals and issued war bonds?
The movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities
during the 1920s, American artists and writers lived this nontraditional lifestyle.
What is Bohemian?
This event caused the United States to help Cuba gain its freedom
What is the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine
Stated that Europeans could not create new colonies in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
A group of U.S. troops led by Theodore Roosevelt that quickly overwhelmed the Spanish.
Who are the Rough Riders?
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillipines became territories of the US after this event
What is the Spanish-American War?