APUSH Easy Test Unit 11

Sherman Anti Trust Act

Name of the act in 1890 that sought to restore competition and reasonable prices by breaking up monopolies and cartels.

18th Amendment

Amendment banning alcohol.

Roosevelt Dam

Name of the dam set up to conserve and use water and help jump start the city of Phoenix.

Preservationists

Progressives who wanted to leave nature essentially untouched.

Food and Drug Administration

Organization set up for the purpose of regulating, inspecting, and monitoring health practices in the food industry in 1906.

Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

Progressive US president who acted as an enthusiast for nature and as a nature and wildlife advocate.

Upton Sinclair

The author who went undercover to expose the injustice of the meat packing industry.

Progressive Liberals

Term used to describe a liberal motivated primarily by individual liberty, along with aid, care, and concern for the needy and marginalized.

Classic Liberals

Term used to describe a liberal motivated by individual liberty but also motivated by proportional fairness and free market economics.

Speakeasy

Name for a secret bar during the progressive era.

Prohibition

The era in which the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol was made illegal.

-Colorado River

-Owen’s Lake

Two bodies of water that supplied or continue to supply the water in the Los Angeles Basin.

Conservationists

Progressives who wished to maintain nature efficiently and maintain nature’s resources while maximizing human use.

Teapot Dome Scandal

Scandal in 1921 in which officials accepted bribes in exchange for access to federal land and resources, drew the fury of Progressive reformers.

Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

President that became one of the primary progressive figureheads and was known as the trust-buster.

16th Amendment

Amendment that established America’s first federal income tax for the purpose of bettering society through increased infrastructure and welfare.

Muckrackers

Term used to describe undercover journalists who seeked to expose corruption, especially during the progressive era.

17th Amendment

Amendment in which congressional senators became elected by popular state vote.

The Jungle

The publication that exposed the meat packing industry

Bootlegger

Term used to describe an illegal producer of alcohol.

US Forest Service

Service set up by progressives to expand and maintain the national parks system.

Al Capone

Notorious Chicago crime boss that formed a large organized crime empire.

21st Amendment

Amendment that again made the consumption, production, and purchase of alcohol legal.

Assembly Line

Henry Ford’s innovation that revolutionized production time and cost.

First-Wave Feminism

Name of the feminist movement that pursued female suffrage.

Half a Man

1911 book arguing segregation took a psychological toll on blacks in America.

Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts

Two groups who started in the 1910s to foster appreciation for outdoor life.

-Lillian Ward

-Mary White Ovington

Two progressive era women who protested racial injustice.

14 Points Speech

Speech which laid the foundation for an ideal post-war world.

Senate

US entity that refused to join the League of Nations, instead choosing to remain isolationist.

-Credit

-Loan repayment

-Lack of goods produced by Europe

-Technologies

Four causes of rapid economic growth in the 1920s.

League of Nations

Organization set by Wilson meant to keep peace via mediation and economic sanctions.

Factory work

The activity during both world wars that gave impudence the ability and inequality expressed by women. (this sentence makes no sense)

19th Amendment

Amendment gave women the right to vote.

-Zimmerman Telegram

-Sinking of Lusitania

Two reasons why the US joined WW1.

Self-Determination

Concept advocated by Wilson that said individuals of similar ethnicities should have the right to choose their own leaders, government, economy, etc without imperial interference.

Second-Wave Feminism

Feminist movement that pursued equal opportunity in economic, political, and social life.

NAACP

Organization meant to fight on behalf of blacks and combat segregation legally.

Treaty of Versailles

Treaty that blamed Germany for the war and punished them severely.

Booker T Washington

African American intellectual who advocated for greater opportunity for blacks in entrepreneurship and business, and encouraged blacks to receive education and work hard to better their lives.

Jobs in factories

The primary reason many African Americans left the south to live in northern cities.

Babe Ruth

One famous sports star in the 1920s.

Charlie Chaplin

One famous actor from the 1920s.

Credit

Ability of Americans to purchase goods with money they didn’t have instead of paying overtime in installments.

The Great Migration

Movement of primarily blacks from the south to northern cities in the 20s and 30s.

-Hopper

-Mencken

Two writers/authors who spoke out against American culture be it Christian fundamentalism, American politics, consumerism, or small town America.

Modernism

Philosophical and artistic movement in the 20th century that rejected traditional philosophies, religion, and enlightenment ideals in the face of the new industrial economy.

-Latin

-Midwesterners

Two other major groups of migrants/immigrants that moved to American cities for work during the same span of time as the 20s and 30s.

Harlem Renaissance

African American cultural, art, and musical movement of the 1920s.

Radio or Telephone

One new communication enhancing innovation either invented or popularized in the 1920s.

The New Negro

Name of the anthology written by Alan Lock putting together essays, poems, and short stories by prominent black artists.