Who's Who
Encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination by voting, helped create NAACP in 1910
W.E.B. Du Bois
October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression.
Black Tuesday
Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.
Chinese Exclusion Act
The destruction of the USS Maine allegedly done by Spain led to this war.
Spanish-American War
Policy that called for a system of equal trade and investment and to guarantee the territorial integrity of China
Open Door Policy
United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and went after big businesses and lost the race for Presidency 3 times
William Jennings Bryan
This ultimately led to the United States declaring war on Germany in WWI
Zimmerman note/telegram
A law forbidding the sale/distribution of alcoholic beverages
18th Amendment
Name the 3 countries involved in the Triple Alliance (WWI)
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Program employing millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
Works Progress Administration
Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history
John D. Rockefeller
This court case established the separate but equal precedent
Plessy v Ferguson
An act that raised US tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. The tariffs under the act, excluding duty-free imports. In response furious European countries imposed a tax on American goods making them too expensive to buy in Europe.
Hawley Smoot Tariff
The most famous of all the units fighting in Cuba, they were the U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt. Participated in the capture of Kettle Hill, and then charged across a valley to assist in the seizure of San Juan Ridge, the highest point of which is San Juan Hill.
Rough Riders
Program that oversees the construction of dams to control flooding, improve navigation, and create cheap electric power in the rural South.
Tennessee Valley Authority
A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
What two factors helped hide economic problems before the depression
Treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention, it permitted extensive U.S. involvement in Cuban international and domestic affairs.
Platt Amendment
What territories did the U.S. gain after Spanish-American war? (3 of them)
Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico,
created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.
Social Security Security Act
African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcars or shop in white owned stores
Ida B. Wells
Why did the United States not want to be a part of the League of Nations
Congress did not approve because of isolationist ideology.
Curtailed the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during time of war. Permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States.
Sedition Act of 1918
Name the acronyms for the reasons for the start of WWI. (5 of them)
Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, Assassination
New deal program designed to raise and stabilize farm prices, conserve soil, store reserves, and control production.
Agricultural Adjustment Act