Meyers- Semester 1; Ideas
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- Nationalism
- hyper patriotism, desire for ones own country
- Militarism
- ideology that relies on strength of armies to determine foreign policy
- Court-Packing Scheme
- FDR's attempt o justify Supreme Court, so New Deal wouldn't be overturned
- Communism
- political philosophy that government owns everything
- Credit
- buy now pay later concept
- Quota System
- severely cut immigration into US, S&E European immigrants kept out
- Isolationism
- political ideology where a country stays out of world affairs and focuses on itself
- Rugged Individualism
- Hoover's political ideology, said Direct Relief was wrong, "Pick yourselves up by the bootstraps..."
- New Deal
- FDR's domestic policy to get out of Great Depression, created jobs
- Melting Pot
- concept where cultures mixed and ideas shared as immigrants assimilated into US culture
- Prohibition
- 18th amendment, buying/selling of alcohol was illegal
- Platt Amendment
- law which gave US right to intervene in Cuban affairs and establish a naval base
- Deficit Spending
- spending way out of recession, government spends more than it makes in taxes
- Urbanization
- growth of cities- outwards
- Political Machine
- pol. organization that ran governments at city and state (Tammany Hall)
- Suffrage
- right to vote, women received with 19th amendment
- Social Gospel Movement
- Christian idea that churches help the poor as much as they try to "save" them
- Speculation
- risky investments in stocks in hopes of quick profit
- Dollar Diplomacy
- Taft's foreign policy, world banker, took over poor countries
- Fireside Chats
- radio speeches by FDR calmed US' anxiety during Great Depression
- Margin Buying
- buying stocks on loan and using profits to pay difference
- Roosevelt Corollary
- aka "Big Stick Diplomacy" TR's belief that US should be a world police man
- Harlem Renaissance
- growing Af-Am culture in 1920s, in NYC, introduced Jazz to America
- Direct Relief
- government aids people directly in time of crisis- FDR's ideology
- Nativism
- hatred of immigrants
- Great Migration
- Af-Am's movement north after WW1
- Fundamentalism
- religious ideology that fought modernism, took Bible literally
- Imperialism
- extending control over an area outside borders
- Progressivism
- reform movement that aimed to improve morality, poverty, business, and government
- Culture Shock
- fear experienced by new immigrants upon arrival to US
- Conservation
- preserving natural resources and environment, TR was a big advocate of this
- Yellow Journalism
- exaggerated stories in newspapers designed to grab attention
- Red Scare
- 1920s hysteria, US afraid of radicals taking over government
- Organized Crime
- concept that gained numbers when Prohibition was made law (Mafia)
- Alliances
- system of defenses, pact which involves fighting with a country
- Protectorate
- concept where 1 country "watches over" another
- Americanization
- forced acception of "American" culture- nativist idea
- Trench Warfare
- WW1 style of fighting, horrible conditions
- Segregation
- separation of races, Jim Crow Laws