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What was the primary function of German submarines?: to attack boats that entered the war-zone regardless what side they were on or if they were neutral
What was the Great Migration of the early 1900's?: mass migration of some 60,000 english people to the americas after WWI
What was the Bull Moose Party?: progressive party- teddy roosevelts new political party in 1912
How was Cuba made a U.S. protectorate?: from the Platt Ammendment
Who was Florence Kelly and Samuel Gompers?: samuel gompers- leader of the AFL, Florence Kelly- progressive reformer activist who champagned for laws that would limit or prohibit child labour and improve wroking conditions for female workers
what was the CCC and its function?: Civilian Conservation Corps- employed young men on puplics works projects
What were the goals of the NAACP?: -ending racial discrimination -used the court system to fight civil rights restritctions
What were the outcomes of the Spanish-American War?: Spain gave up all claim for cuba and ceded peurto rico and the pacific island of guam to the united states, spain gave up control over the phillipines in return for a us payment of $20 million -spain lost
What is stock speculation?: playing the market by buying and selling stock to make a quick profit
Who are the Rough Riders?: ran by lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, composed by college atheletes, cowboys, american indians, and ranchers unit during the Spanish-American war
Who is Robert M. LaFollette?: loyal republican who invented/backed wisconson idea, governer of wisconson
What is the Sedition Act?: federal law tenacted during WWI that made written criticism of the government a crime
What effect did the return of the WWI soldiers have on American society?: bad- left many unimployed. . unemployment rose + inflation
Who is Daniel Burnham?: leading architect and city planner, produced plan for redesigning chicago
What are the goals of the Clayton Antitrust Act?: -to tell companies what they could or could not do -to eliminate monopolys -clarified and made the sherman antitrust act stronger
Who came up with the "New Deal?": Franklin D. Roosevelt
What were the goals of the progressives?: -to reform and cure problems of urbanization and idustrialization -to reform government by giving people more control
Who believed government should let business get out of the depression on its own?: Hoover/Mellon
How did the Federal Reserve Act change banking?: it created a national banking system to help government control the economy
How did the British navy defend itself and its merchant ships early in the war?: blockaded Germany
What is a process of resolving conflict through the decisions of a third party?: arbitration
What did labor leaders do to organize workers in various industries?: wagner-connery act
Who simplified factory work into smaller units?: Fredrick W. Taylor
What did two-thirds of all Americans own by 1930?: electricity
What effect did the assembly line have on business?: increased productivity, made factory work repetitative, business let off many more people - more unemployment (not good)
What are the main causes of WWI?: militarism, alliences, imperealism, nationalism
What is an "open door policy?" and who called for one with china?: -1949, declaration made by secretary of state John Hay that stated that all nations should have equal access to trade and investment in hcina -John Hay
Who was Al Capone?: ruler of chicago's iunderworld with his small army of mobsters -bootlegger -violent gang wars
How did the Slective Service System function in WWI?: required men tetween the ages of 18-45 to register for the draft
Why did African Americans move north following the war?: to escape discrimination and difficult living conditions
What was the purpose of Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet?: to show other countries our power and strength -"big stick"
what is a recall?: enables voters to remove an elected official from office by calling for a special election
What is the quest for colonial empires?: Imperialism
What types of workers joined the american federation of labor, and who were its leaders?: Skilled Workers, Samuel Gompers
What is the significans of "Remember the Maine?": supporters go into war with spain because the Uss. Maine blew upwhile sailing to havana to protect U.S. citezens. there was no proof but the fact thet it exploded..an excuse to go into war
Who are the Fists of Harmony?: -secret society aka boxers -attacked foreigners in 1900 -china for chineese
Whose assassination sparked WWI?: Archduke Franz Ferdinand
How did Roosevelt support AND change the Monroe Doctrine?: change-added the roosevelt collary-stated that the u.s. would police affairs in the western hemisphare to keep europeans from interventing in the region support- activaly enforeced the monroe doctrine as a way to protect the u.s. intrests in latin america
Who invented the Share-Our-Wealth program and what did it promise?: Samuel Huey Long- To empower the government to seize wealth the rich thorough taxes and provide a guarenteed minimum income and home ot every american family
What were the goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association?: African american economic independence established an independent black homelnand in Africa
What industry was the biggest of the 1920's?: automobile industry
who was W.E.B DuBois?: -founder of NAACP, organized a series of pan-african congresses that attracted black leaders from around the world -editor of "The Crisis" - Author of The Souls Of Black Folk
What was the original goal of the Department of Labor?: -to enforce labor laws -16th ammendment -passed mine saftey lawas -established 8hr work day
Who was the leader of the United Mine Workers strike?: John L Lewis
What was the Wisconson Idea and who invented it?: -a model for all states, called for a direct primary, -helped pass lwas that curbed excessive lobbying, -increased taxes on railroads and puplic utilities, -created commissions to regulate compnies in public intrest -Robert M. LaFolette
What did the Zimmerman letter to Mexico say?: proposed an alliences between the two countries
What is the difference betweeen an "open shop" and a "closed shop?": open shop- non-union contract, closed shop- workplace in which all workers must belong to a union
When was Black Tuesday and Black Thursday?: Black Tuesday-Oct. 29, 1929 Black Thursday- Oct. 24, 1929
Who was a famous baseball player accused of "fixing" the 1919 World Series?: Joe Jackson + other members of the white socks
What was the WPA and what did it do?: Works Progress Aministration- gave jobs to over 8.5 million americans in alll walks of life and occupations
What is the Zimmerman Note, who sent it, and why id it anger americans?: a cable sent to mexico by german's foreign secratary during WWI to mexico, proposed an allience between the two countries. cable offered to rquonqer lost territiory in new mexico, texas, arizona. it angered us because it affected us
What amendment made alcohol illeagal?: 18th
Who were 2 anarchist radicals sentenced to death and executed after an infamous trial?: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzeti
What was the Harlem Renissance?: Period of great african american artistic accomplishments that began in the 1920's in the Harlem neighberhood of New York City
What was Woodrow Wilson's platform in 1912?: Called for tarriff reduction, banking reform, laws benifiting wage earners and farmers, and stronger anti-trust legislation
Who was in charge of the French construction of the Panama Canal?: Ferdinand de Lesseps
Who was a poet theat called forCuban Independence?: Jose Marti
What did the National Industrial Recovery Act do?: stimulate industrial and business activity
When did the United States become an imperial power? (what event signaled this?): when we ban controlling other countries
What characterized a flapper?: young woman who challlenged social traditiosn with thier dress and behavior
Who lead the plans to create a constitution for hawaii based on the idea of "hawaii for hawaiins;" and what result did that have?: queen liliuokalini -supporters of annextation forcibally occupied gov't buildings and declaired end of monarchy and set up a provisional government, hawaii was later then annexed to the united states
What is Social Security?: provided pension for the elderly and insuance
What musical styles became popular in the 1920's?: Jazz, Blues
What is revivalism?: Religious leaders were worried about declining moral standards so they started preaching about the evils of popular entertainment and alcohol. some used hollywood entertainment to preach their word
What was the Red Scare?: period of anti-communist histeria; swept the u.s. after WWI
What is the term to describe why businesses deliberately replace items with bettter versions of the same item?: planned absolescense
Who is Alice Paul and what strategies did she adopt?: a millitant young quacker suffagist who broke away from NASWA and formed a second group-national womens party- right to vote-fought for
What was the Great Depression?: serious global economic decline that began with the crash of the U.S. stock market in 1929
Who won the presidential election of 1900?: Mckinley
Who was the leader of the Russian Revolution?: Vladimir Lenin
What were the goals of the KKK?: targeted african americans, catholics, immigrants, jews, suspected radicals; carried out kidnappings, beatings, lynchings
What was created to stop massive bank withdrawls?: Bank holiday- closed every bank in the U.S. for a few days
What is a bull market and a bear market?: Bull- upward trend in the stock prices bear- downward trend in stock prices
What was the Pan-African Movement?: movement to unite people of african decent worldwide
What is the American Plan?: policy promoted by business leaders during the 1920's that called for open shops
Who wanted to inflame American feelings for war by publishing stories of Spanish crimes in Cuba?: William Randolph Hearst
What was the purpose of the 17th ammendment?: gave voters power to elect their senators directally
Whose economic ideas influenced the New Deal?: John Maynard Keys
Why did FDR want to increase the number of Supreme Court justices?: because he was angered that the ocurt had declared several New Deal measures unconstitutional
What is fundamentalism?: protestant religious movement that teaches that traditional christian doctorine should be accepted ithout question and that the bible is literally true
What is the practice of margin buying?: purchacing stock with borrowed money
Who were the members of the Lost Generation?: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Lewis
What was the Bonus Army?: group of WWI veterans who marched on washington, D.C. in 1932 to demand immediate payment for thier pension bonuses
What law enforced prohibition?: Volstead Act
Who were muckrackers?: named by president roosevelt, someone who is always stirring up dirt and muck, pointing out only the negatives
What were the major effects of the Great Depression on people and thier families?: many people began to move in with relatives and adults back with parents; marrage and birthrates declined dramatically
What was the purposese of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corperation?: to insure bank savings deposits up to 5000 dollars
The sinking of what British cruise ship by German U-Boats caused the loss of over 100 American lives in 1920?: Lusitania
What are the 2 main alliances in WWI?: -Allied powers- Britian, France, Russia -Central Powers-Germany, Austria-Hungry, Ottoman empire,bulgaria (tag)
What was the Jazz Singer?: first talking movie with sound starring Al Johnson
What were Henry Ford's major contributions to industry?: Assembly Line, Automobiles
What was the purpose of the Shlieffen Plan?: called for german forces to avoid the heavily defended french-german boarder by invading france though the neutral country of belgium then attack russia
What was the goal of the National Youth Adminstration?: focused on giving part time jobs to high school and college kids
How did many Americans purchase thier cars?: Installment plan- pay for cars over time
Who was Mary Harris Jones and Carrie Chapman Catt?: Mary Harris jones- labour organizer who later called how such work affected children, Carrie Chapman Catt- woman's political activist
What is a business cycle?: regular ups and downs in a free enterprise economy
How did trench warfare function?: WWI millitary strategy of defending a possition by fighting from the potection of deep ditches -horrible condigions

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