Ch.14 - WW1
Federal act that required all men aged 21–30 to register for conscription in 1917
What is the Selective Service Act?
1935 law establishing unemployment insurance and old‑age pensions
What is the Social Security Act?
African‑American pilots whose combat record shattered racial barriers in WWII
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
Mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., where “I Have a Dream” was delivered in 1963
What is the March on Washington?
U.S. policy document promising Cuba independence—until an “intervention” clause was tacked on.
What is the Platt Amendment?
Law of 1917 that made anti‑war speech a federal crime during WWI
What is the Espionage Act?
Author John Steinbeck wrote this book about the exodus of Great Plains farmers to California during the Dust Bowl
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
Top‑secret U.S. research project that developed the first atomic bombs
What is the Manhattan Project?
Year‑long boycott in Alabama sparked by a seamstress refusing to give up her bus seat
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Territory ceded by Spain in 1898 that became a key U.S. naval station and sugar producer.
What is Puerto Rico?
Iconic propaganda agency led by George Creel that sold WWI to Americans through posters and film
What is the Committee on Public Information?
Federal corporation that built dams and modernized electricity in a rural Southern state
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Iconic WWII poster figure who encouraged women to work in factories
Who is 'Rosie the Riveter'?
1954 Supreme Court decision declaring “separate but equal” unconstitutional in schools
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Scholar and activist who helped launch the Socialist Party and later co‑founded the NAACP.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
Socialist labor leader imprisoned for speaking out against U.S. involvement in WWI
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
*New Deal program employing young men in conservation and infrastructure projects - especially in National Parks
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
1942 executive order authorizing forcible relocation of Japanese Americans
What is Executive Order 9066?
Landmark 1964 law outlawing discrimination in public accommodations and employment
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Union founded in 1905 that aimed to organize all workers “under the banner of industrial unionism.”
What is the Industrial Workers of the World?
Settlement‑house founder who organized the Women’s Peace Party to oppose U.S. entry into WWI
Who is Jane Addams?
A government organization created to recognize the legal status of unions, listen to their complaints, and settle issues
What is the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board)
June 6, 1944 amphibious invasion that marked the turning point in Europe
What is D‑Day?
Nonviolent protests by students at segregated lunch counters across the South
What is the Sit‑In Movement?
This conflict would famously be remembered as a "splendid little war"
What is the Spanish-American War?