Amendments & Acts
It made slavery unconstitutional.
What is the 13th Amendment?
What book helped get the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act passed?
What is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?
Valuing the Bible above all else as literal truth.
What is Fundamentalism?
A cause of the stock market crash, it saw companies taking out large loans and investing them riskily in the stock market.
What is Speculation?
Adolph Hitler believed in this ideology that targets and hates Jewish people.
What is antisemitism?
Signed by Warren G. Harding, it severely limited immigration from Eastern Europe and Asia.
What is the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
Theodore Roosevelt engaged in this legal activity to break up bad corporations and trusts.
What is trustbusting?
Name given to describe the economy and economic growth of the 1920s, ending with the stock market crash of 1929.
What is a bull market?
Headed by Charles G. Dawes, it gave emergency loans to banks, railroad companies, and businesses.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)?
The leader of the USSR during World War II.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
It was a result of the Temperance Movement and banned the sale, production, etc. of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Established direct elections of US Senators and how to easily fill vacancies.
What is the 17th Amendment?
It led to widespread paranoia over communism and anarchism.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
An example of this ideology would be allowing state governments to pass their own labor laws.
What is Localism.
He took the presidency after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Voter laws to end Jim Crow voting laws. It looked at disenfranchised areas and drew new districts for better representation. It combated many ways black voters were suppressed.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The name of the style of diplomacy that William Howard Taft used.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
It saw fundamentalism and modernism square off against each other surrounding the issue of evolution in public schools.
What is the Scopes Trial?
It employed 8.5 million workers and created key infrastructure, public buildings, and eventually internment camps.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Dictator from Italy who founded the Fascist Party.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
Signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, it was the first civil rights act since Reconstruction and it investigated disenfranchisement.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
The full name of Ida B. Well's organization that helped African American women through daycare, household supplies, and activism.
What is the National Association of Colored Women (NACW)?
Signed in 1928, it was an international agreement between countries to not use war as a form of diplomacy.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
It allowed more money to go to the federal reserve to continue giving out more emergency loans and to fight deflation.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
The codename given to the Normandy (D-Day) Invasion.
What is Operation Overlord?