Progressive Era
What is Progressivism?
Outlawed the production, sale and transportation of alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment?
This allowed people to buy stock on with a down payment of a portion of the value. People ended up not being able to pay this back and caused the crash of the stock market.
What is buying on the margin?
This event ended due to the increase of production of war goods like weapons, planes, tanks, and lowered the unemployment rate.
What is the Great Depression?
The state of hostilities and no military conflict that developed between the US and USSR after World War II.
What is the Cold War?
A journalist who exposed corruption and social issues.
What is a Muckraker?
This was a celebration of African-American culture in literature and art
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Programs like the Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps created this for people in an attempt to provide relief.
What are jobs?
FDR described the bombing of Pearl Harbor as this, a day that everyone will remember for years to come.
What is "a day that will live in infamy"?
The US blocked the spread of Soviet influence and communism during the late 1940s to early 1950s.
What is containment?
This book exposed the mistreatment of workers and the unsanitary processing of food in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
Americans could now spend what they had been told to save during the war and increased the purchasing of luxury items. Advertising allowed more people to buy these products on credit.
What is a Consumer Revolution?
The region of the central Great Plains was hit by a severe drought during the Great Depression.
This was the reason President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
What is to avoid an American invasion?
Churchill described this imaginary line that separated communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the countries in Western Europe.
What is an iron curtain?
He earned the name of "trust buster" because he broke up monopolies and trusts.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
A Tennessee biology teacher faced criminal charges for teaching evolution instead of creationism and was fined.
What is the Scopes Trial?
A group of WWI veterans marched to Washington D.C. in 1932 to demand they be paid their government bonuses, but President Hoover called on US troop to stop the march.
What is the Bonus Army incident?
FDR and the federal government passed a series of these throughout the 1930s to help keep the US out of future wars.
What are neutrality laws?
A policy announced by President Truman in 1947 to provide economic and military aid to free nations that were threatened by internal or external opponents.
A muckraker who exposed the living conditions of the poor by using photography in his book How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Presidents Harding and Coolidge followed conservative politics, and followed these types of policies where the government would not intervene in business and the economy.
What is government hands-off policies?
This is how FDR paid for the New Deal, by using the money that government received in revenue.
What is deficit spending?
The US decided to intern this group of people because they feared they would be spies and not loyal to the US during the war.
Who are Japanese Americans?
He was the senator who attacked others in the state department and accused them of being communists, with little to know evidence.
Who was Senator Joseph McCarthy?