APUSH Unit 7A

Child Labor

Hardly any regulation of this. However, laws were placed so that they can focus on education.

Tenements

Poor apartments in urban areas where immigrants lived.

Populism

Belief that common people have the power to control the government

Jacob Riis

Muckraker, took photographs to expose how immigrants lived; “How the Other Half Lives”

Upton Sinclair

Muckraker, intended to expose industrial labor but ended up in food regulation rules.

Plessy v. Ferguson

Resulted in separate but equal.

19th Amendment

Women’s right to vote

Theodore Roosevelt

One of the only progressive presidents. He supported regulation of big business, conservation of natural resources, and a "square deal" for ordinary people. He greatly expanded the role and authority of the presidency in the national government.

Isolationism

Washington’s farewell address statement of not interfering with international affairs.

Big Stick Diplomacy

Diplomatic policy developed by T.R where the "big stick" symbolizes his power and readiness to use military force if necessary. It is a way of intimidating countries without actually harming them and was the basis of U.S. imperialistic foreign policy.

Dollar Diplomacy

Enacted by Howard Taft to increase American economic influence and investments in Less Developed Regions.

Moral Diplomacy

In order for a country to gain support from the United States, then they should pursue a democratic government.

Spanish-American War

The Spanish-American War of 1898 ended Spain's colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power.

Franz Ferdinand

His murder started WWI.

US entry in WWI

Germany pledged to protect passengers before attacking unarmed ships. However, they broke this with the sinking of Lusitania, so the US joined the war.

Treaty of Versailles

Treaty that ended WWI. It blamed Germany for WWI and handed down harsh punishment.

Civil Liberties

Rights and freedoms protected by the Constitution

Schenck v. US

Defendant did not have the right to use the first amendment to justify denying the draft for WWI.

Rebrith of the KKK

Red Scare

The initial fear of communism spreading to the United States.

Scopes Trial

Resulted in it being illegal for any teacher to teach about evolution in schools. Grew a divide between urban and rural morals.

Harlem Renaissance

Black literary and artistic movement centered in Harlem that lasted from the 1920s into the early 1930s that both celebrated and lamented black life in America; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were two famous writers of this movement.

John Maynard Keynes

Created the theory that the government interception can stabilize the economy. FDR followed this by increased government spending for New Deal programs and deficit spending to support the programs.

Bonus Army

Filled with WWI veterans that also suffered after the Great Depression who demanded their cash compensation from the war that they were promised by Hoover.

New Deal

A set of FDR’s programs to relief, recover, and reform the economy after the Great Depression.

Court Packing Scheme

FDR policy of adding a new Supreme Court Justice after one turn 70 years old.

Relief

CCC, WPA, CWA, FSA, NIRA, SSA; the point of these programs was relief for the poor and unemployed

Recover

Social security, Wagner Act, Banking Act of 1935; the point was recovery of the economy back to normal levels

Reform

Reform the financial system

Criticisms of the New Deal

Very left wing populists. For example, Huey Long believed it did not provide enough support for the poor.

New Deal Coalition

Groups that supported the New Deal

U.S. Entry into WWII

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor resulted this

U.S. Home Front

Americans supported the war by buying war bonds. Women also replaced men.

Korematsu v. U.S.

The court upheld the constitutionality of detention camps for Japanese-Americans during World War 2.

Island-hopping

The idea was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan.

Battle of Midway

Battle between the US and Japan. Resulted in American victory because they ruined Japan’s ability to launch mobile strikes.

D-Day

The landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Resulted in Germany surrendering.

Atomic Bomb

A "fission" bomb dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of World War II.

Rosie the Riveter

The symbol of women working in the war industry.