US History II ACP TRI I Practice Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering the Spanish-American War, World War I, the 1920s, and the Great Depression based on lecture notes.

Rough Riders

The first all voluntary and integrated cavalry consisting of Cowboys, Policemen, Native Americans, college students, & Buffalo Soldiers, led by Theodore Roosevelt.

The Delome letter

A document that contained a criticism of President McKinley.

Treaty of Paris (1898)

The agreement that ends the Spanish American War in 1898.

Selective Service Act

A law as a result of which men were required to register for the draft.

Mechanized warfare

Forms of combat that include tanks and airplanes.

Trench warfare

A style of fighting that leads to a stalemate during WWI.

Woodrow Wilson’s 14 pt. Peace plan

A proposal for peace that was rejected by the Allies.

League of Nations

An international organization the USA does not join because of the belief it would drag the country into European conflicts.

Neutrality

The policy that kept the US out of WWI for 3 years.

Roosevelt Corollary

A diplomatic policy that built on the Monroe Doctrine.

Treaty of Versailles

The post-WWI treaty that required Germany to pay reparations for war damages, barred Germany from maintaining an army, stripped Germany of its colonies in the Pacific, and forced Germany to accept sole responsibility for the war.

Alliance system

The system that might have prevented the war from involving more than two nations, Austria-Hungary and Serbia, had it not existed.

Unrestricted submarine warfare

The most compelling reason for the United States to enter WWI.

Red Scare

A period during which Attorney A. Mitchell Palmer believed he needed to protect American people from Anarchists and Communists.

Communism

An ideology that calls for the abolition of private property in order to equally distribute wealth and power.

Double standard

Stricter social standards for women than men during the 1920s.

Great Migration

A movement of African Americans from the south to northern cities from 1910-1920.

Harlem Renaissance

A celebration of African-American culture in literature and art.

Jazz music

A musical genre born in New Orleans and spread to the North by musicians such as Louis Armstrong.

Hoovervilles

Shantytowns named as such due to disgust with President Hoover.

Direct relief

The act of giving food to the poor.

Eleanor Roosevelt

An important advisor to FDR on domestic policy.

New Deal program

FDR's program with goals focusing on Relief, recovery and reform.

Redlining

A policy that put people of color and poor people in undesirable neighborhoods.