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26th president. increased size of navy, "great white fleet" added roosevelt corollary to monroe doctrine. "big stick" policy
who is theodore "teddy" roosevelt
A court case that ruled it was unconstitutional to deny membership in political parties to African Americans as a way of excluding them from voting.
What is Smith v. Allwright?
A system in which people bought bonds so the government could get that money for war.
What are liberty bonds?
Created a tax on workers that provided monthly pensions for retired people. (still in effect today)
What is the Social Security Act?
a propaganda character designed to increase the production of female workers in factories
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
Mob king in Chicago who controlled a network of speakeasies and was in the anti-prohibition trade of illegal alcohol
Who is Al Capone?
Supreme court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans.
What is Korematsu v. US
Rose the rates on imported goods in the hopes that domestic manufacturing would prosper, prevented foreign trade.
What is the Fordney-McCumber tariff?
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
The term for the day of the stock market crash and beginning of the great depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
A Danish immigrant who became a reporter that pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses where immigrants lived.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Case involving limits on free speech. Established "clear and present danger" principle.
What is Schenck v. United States?
Charged a high tax for imports, leading to less trade between America and foreign countries.
What is the Hawley Smoot Tariff?
Granted rights to unions and allowed collective bargaining.
What is the Wagner Act?
Mexican workers that were brought to America to work when men and women were gone during World War ll when there weren't enough workers
What are Braceros?
A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her work "A History of Standard Oil".
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Supreme court declared that the NRA (national recovery administration) was unconstitutional.
What is Schechter v. US?
Pushed by woodrow wilson, this tariff reduced average tariff duties by almost 15% and established a graduated income tax.
What is the Underwood Tariff?
Enforced the language of the 18th amendment, made the manufacture and distribution of alcohol illegal in the US.
What is the Volstead Act?
Japanese suicide bombers in WWll
What are Kamikaze?
united states lawyer and politician who prosecuted john scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school.
who is william jennings bryan?
The court undermined the authority of the federal government to act against monopolies.
What is US v. E.C. Knight Co?
a compromise that only moderated the high rates of the Aldrich bill
What is the Payne-Aldrich Tariff?
Allowed natives a form of self governnance and provided them with direct ownership of their land, credit, a constitution, and a charter where they could manage their own affairs.
What is the indian reorganization act?
In 1920 these two men were convicted of murder and robbery. They were found guilty and died in the electric chair unfairly.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?