US history Midterm review 2
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- New Nationalism
- Program of progressive reforms proposed by President Theodore Roosevelt; included regulation of business, welfare legislation, and other measures
- Holding company
- A company that controls other companies by holding their stocks
- direct primary
- Elections system in which voters rather than political bosses select nominees for elections
- arbitration
- process of settling disputes in which both sides accept the legally binding decision of an impartial third party
- home rule
- Municipal reforms in the late 1800s and early 1900s that gave cities limited self-rule, rather than state rule
- progressivism
- Political and social reform movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s; included socialism, prohibation, and other reform movements
- New Freedom
- Political patform of Woodrow Wilson in teh 1912 presidential election that criticized big business and big government
- Social Welfare Programs
- Government program that helps ensure a basic standard of living; includes unemployment,accident,and health insurance
- Allies
- The combinations of Russia, France, Great Britain, and later the United States in WWI
- Industrial Worker's of the World
- Radical labor organization of the early 1900s that soought the overthrow of the capitalist system; also known as the Wobblies.
- Reparations
- Payments for economic injury exacted from a defeated army
- American Expeditionary Force
- United states troops in WWI,including draftees,volunteers,and the national guard
- self-determination
- Freedom of a group of people to dtermine their own political status.
- League of Nations
- Organization proposed by President Wodrow Wilson after WWI (UN-United Nations)
- Fourteen Points
- Peace program proposed by President Woodrow Wilson intended to prevent wars like WWI
- Zimmerman Note
- Telegram intercepted from a German official proposing an alliance with Mexico; increased pressure on the United States to enter the war
- Armistice
- Cease-fire during a war ex.the end of WWI (1918)
- Bootlegging
- Supplying liquor illegally during the time of prohibition
- Flapper
- A type of woman who had a straight, slim silhouette, and a fondness for dancing and brash actions.
- Red Scare
- A time in history when everyone was afraid that communism would take over the United States.
- Fundamentalism
- Christian religious movement based on pamphlets issued between 1909 and 1914; holds that every word in the bible was inspired by God
- General Strike
- A strike in which many unions participate in order to show worker unity
- Scopes trial
- Tennessee trial of 1925 that challenged the law against teaching evolution in public schools
- Jazz age
- Term for the 1920s, a period marked by the great popularity of jazz music.
- Harlem Renaissance
- Period in the early 1900s during which the literary, musical, adn artistic expression of African Americans blossomed in Harlem
- Teapot Dome
- Scandel during the administration of President Warren G. Harding involving the lease of public oil reserves to private companies in exchange for illegal payments
- Herber Hoover
- The 31st president of the United States...worked to aid Europeans in WWI but responded ineffectivly to the stock market crash and the great depression.
- Warren G. Harding
- 29th President of the United States
- Vladimir I. Lenin
- Revolutionary Leader in Russia, Established a communist government
- Charles Lindbergh
- Aviator who became and international hero when he made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Novelist who depicted the United Statesand the world during the 1920s in books like "The Great Gatsby"
- Calvin Coolidge
- 13th President of the United States; Big business supporter and opposed social aid
- Marcus Garvey
- African American leader who urged African Americans to return to the motherland
- A. Mitchell Palmer
- The Attorney General during the time of the Red Scare whom set up antiradical divisions to raid organizations for being suspected of radical behavior
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Two italian immigrants jailed and put to death for the reason of being a part of the teapot dome; was so controvercial because the court case was not fair
- Henry Ford
- Manufacturer from the 1910s through the 1940s made the most affordable cars to the masses; used mass production
- T.S. Eliot
- A poet who wrote "The Waste Land" depicting the struggle of a youth in the 1920s
- internment camps
- a camp in which people are confined or isolated
- wildcat strikes
- A worker's strike not authorized by their union
- Braceros
- spanish term for worker;particularly applied to the thousands of mexican farmhands who migrated to the United States during WWII only to be sent back after the war
- Double V campaign
- Civil rights movement by African Americans during WWII calling victory in the war and equality at home
- Cost-plus system
- System devised during WWII to allow profits from war production, in which the government paid for basic manufacturing costs, plus a percentage profit
- Congress of Racial Equality
- Civil rights organization started in 1942
- March on Washington
- Civil rights movement in Washington D.C. led by Dr.Martin Luther King
- Interim Committee
- Group of US leaders and scientists who studied the question of using the atomic bomb to force Japan's surrender during WWII
- New Deal
- Proposals and programs adopted by President Franklin Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression;included social and economic programs and changes in government regulation
- Political right
- Those who wish to preserve the current social and political system or power structure
- public works program
- Government funded projects to build public facilities;central to President Roosevelt's New Deal job programs
- political left
- Those who wish to change the current social and political system or power structure
- national debt
- Total debt of the National Government
- hundred days
- The first 100 days of the term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- congress of Industrial Organization
- Labor group that split off from the American Federation of Labor in 1938 and organized unskilled steel,auto, and other workers.
- Social Security Act
- Legislation in 1935 that established a social welfare system funded by employee and worker contributions; included old-age pensions,survivor's benefits for victims of industrial accidents, and unemployment insurance
- Wagner Act
- National Labor Relations Act of 1935;legalized union practices such as collective bargining and the closed shoop and outlawed certain antiunion practices such as blacklisting