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14th amendment
Extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people
19th amendment
Granted women the right to vote
Roaring 20’s
A surging economy created an era of mass consumerism and new ideas
Big Stick Diplomacy
The policy of carefully mediated negotiation supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military
reasons for building the Panama Canal
Lower the distance, cost, and time it took for ships to carry cargo between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, and to increase US power in South America
militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism
MAIN causes for WW1
Alfred Mahan
A late 19th and early 20th century United States Navy officer, an instructor at the Naval War College, author, and naval historian. He is considered America's foremost naval strategist, advocating for the expansion of the US fleet
Harlem Renaissance
The expansion of African American music, art, and literature in New York during the 1920s.
Woodrow Wilson
President during WW1
Red Scare
Widespread fear of a potential rise of communism and anarchism
Palmer Raids
Raids led by General A. Mitchell Palmer attempting to find and arrest communist, anarchist, and socialist
Espionage Act
Prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation
A plan to expand the Supreme Court to make it more efficient
What was FDR’s court-packing plan?
causes of the Spanish-American war
The ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor
effects of the Spanish-American war
A peace treaty that compelled the Spanish to relinquish claims on Cuba, and to cede sovereignty over Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the United States
John J. Pershing
General of the American Expeditionary Force during WW1
reasons for the US entering WW1
sinking of the Lusitania, Germany’s free-range submarine warfare, and the ZImmermann Telegram
to cross over no man’s land
Why were tanks used in WW1?
effects of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany
Required a paying of financial reparations, disarming, losing territory, and giving up all of its overseas colonies
Prohibition
The banning of purchasing and selling of alcoholic beverages
railroads and cars
What types of transportation were most popular during the 1920s?
reconstruction finance corporation
A government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses.
agricultural depression
effects of the Dust Bowl
weapons used in WW1
Grenades, machine guns, poison gas
10th amendment
The Federal Government only has those powers delegated in the Constitution, if it isn't listed, it belongs to the states or to the people
factories and railroads
The Gilded Age saw the most growth in what area?
new nationalism
What was the Progressive Party’s platform?
initiative
A power reserved to the voters to propose legislation by petition
referendum
A public vote on a particular issue
recall
a power reserved to the voters that allows the voters to demand the removal of an elected official
women’s role in the 1920s
Joined the workforce in increasing numbers, participated actively in the nation's new mass consumer culture, and enjoyed more freedom in their personal lives
return to normalcy
Harding’s slogan and platform, calling for disengagement from foreign intervention and for a return to business as usual
causes of the great migration
Escape racial violence, pursue economic and educational opportunities, and obtain freedom from the oppression of Jim Crow
assembly line
what invention, invented by Henry Ford, help speed up production of goods?
religion vs science taught in schools
what ideas did the Scopes Trial challenge?
Social Darwinism
The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals
speculation
risky business deals or transactions
Huey Long
Louisiana senator who advocated for the “Share our wealth” movement during the Great Depression
federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC)
insured bank deposits so people would not lose their money if banks failed
civilian conservation corps (CCC)
similar to the PWA but focused on conservation projects
works progess administration (WPA)
employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads
federal housing administration (FHA)
insured banks, mortgage companies, and other lenders, thereby encouraging the construction of new homes and the repair of existing structures
home owners loan corporation (HOLC)
provided emergency relief with respect to home mortgage indebtedness, to refinance home mortgages, to extend relief to the owners occupied by them and who are unable to amortize their debt elsewhere
social security act (SSA)
provided for unemployment insurance, old-age insurance, and means-tested welfare programs
Wilson’s 14 points
1. Open diplomacy without secret treaties
2. Economic free trade on the seas during war and peace
3. Equal trade conditions
4. Decrease armaments among all nations
5. Adjust colonial claims
6. Evacuation of all Central Powers from Russia and allow it to define its own independence
7. Belgium to be evacuated and restored
8. Return of Alsace-Lorraine region and all French territories
9. Readjust Italian borders
10. Austria-Hungary to be provided an opportunity for self-determination
11. Redraw the borders of the Balkan region creating Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro
12. Creation of a Turkish state with guaranteed free trade in the Dardanelles
13. Creation of an independent Polish state
14. Creation of the League of Nations
Jane Addams
an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States
reform, relief, recovery
3 R’s to end the Great Depression
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