Progressive Era Reforms
This amendment established prohibition in 1919.
What is the 18th Amendment?
These shantytowns of unemployed Americans became symbols of the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
This program aimed to raise farm prices by limiting agricultural production.
What is the AAA?
The U.S. stayed neutral in the 1930s largely because of strong feelings of this after World War I.
What is isolationism?
During WWII, the U.S. government forced many Japanese Americans into these.
What are internment camps?
This organization was the most powerful lobbying force behind Prohibition.
What is the Anti-Saloon League?
One major cause of the Depression was unstable borrowing and buying stocks on this.
What is margin/credit?
This program built dams and brought electricity to rural communities.
What is the TVA?
This policy allowed the U.S. to provide supplies to the Allies without immediate payment.
What is Lend-Lease?
This Supreme Court case upheld Japanese internment as Constitutional.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
World War I increased support for Prohibition largely because alcohol was tied to this immigrant group and grain conservation became patriotic.
Who were German-Americans?
The Depression helped change the popular belief that the federal government should be this during economic downturns.
What is laissez-faire?
This 1935 law strengthened unions and collective bargaining rights.
What is the Wagner Act (NLRA)?
This event was the immediate cause of U.S. entry into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Wartime propaganda encouraged women to do this.
What is enter industrial jobs?
Progressives believed the federal government should protect natural resouces through this type of action?
What is conservation?
Widespread borrowing and buying of stocks on margin, which weakened the financial system.
What is unstable credit?
This program created old-age pensions funded through a payroll tax.
What is Social Security?
One major reason American resisted involvement in the 1930s was disillusionment with this earlier war.
What is World War I?
One reason for dropping the atomic bomb was to force this outcome from Japan.
What is unconditional surrender?
This Progressive value emphasized expert-led reform, scientific solutions, and reducing waste and corruption in government.
What is efficiency?
Businesses produced more goods than people could afford to buy.
What is overproduction/underconsumption?
The New marked a major departure because it used government power to do this?
FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech was meant to build support for THIS action before the U.S. formally entered the war.
What is aiding the Allies in Europe?
Name TWO reasons the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.
Possible answers include: What is force surrender, avoid invasion/save lives, end war quickly, and intimidate the USSR.