APUSH Spring Terms Part 3

Yellow journalism

Exaggerated sensational news used to influence public opinion

Spanish American War (1898)

US defeated Spain gaining Puerto Rico Guam and the Philippines

Teller Amendment

US promised not to annex Cuba after Spanish American War

Platt Amendment

Allowed US to intervene in Cuba and control Guantanamo Bay

Upton Sinclair/muckrakers

Journalist who exposed meatpacking industry in The Jungle leading to reforms

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Civil rights organization fighting racial discrimination

Eugene V Debs

Socialist leader and labor activist who ran for president

Theodore Roosevelt Square Deal

Balanced policy of helping consumers workers and regulating big business

Bully pulpit

Roosevelt’s use of presidency to influence public opinion

Roosevelt Corollary

Extension of Monroe Doctrine allowing US intervention in Latin America

Open Door Policy

US policy to ensure equal trade access in China

Selective Service Act (1917)

Draft law requiring men to serve in WW1

Espionage Act (1917)

Punished spying or interfering with war effort

Sedition Act (1918)

Punished criticism of government during wartime

Great Migration (WW1)

Movement of African Americans from South to North for jobs

Committee on Public Information (WW1)

Government propaganda agency to build support for war

Henry Cabot Lodge vs Woodrow Wilson

Lodge opposed League of Nations while Wilson supported it

Fourteen Points

Wilson’s plan for peace including League of Nations

Why Senate rejected Fourteen Points

Fear of entangling alliances and loss of US sovereignty

DW Griffith Birth of a Nation

Film that glorified KKK and spread racist views

Flappers

Young women in 1920s who challenged traditional roles

Prohibition

Ban on alcohol from 1920 to 1933 (18th Amendment)

Harlem Renaissance

Cultural movement celebrating Black art literature and music

Nativism

Preference for native-born Americans and hostility toward immigrants

Red Scare

Fear of communism leading to arrests and deportations

Lost Generation

Disillusioned writers after WW1 (F Scott Fitzgerald Sinclair Lewis EE Cummings)

Republican Formula

Pro-business policies of 1920s Republicans (low taxes less regulation)

Andrew Mellon Secretary of Treasury

Lowered taxes and supported business growth

Teapot Dome Scandal

Government oil bribery scandal under Harding

Scopes Trial

Trial over teaching evolution vs religion in schools

Herbert Hoover voluntarism

Belief people and businesses should solve problems without government

Forced deportations during Great Depression

Mexican Repatriation removal of Mexicans and Mexican Americans

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Government loans to banks and businesses

Trickle down economics

Helping businesses to indirectly benefit everyone

Bonus Army

WW1 veterans who protested for early bonus payment

FDR First 100 Days

Period of rapid New Deal legislation to fight Great Depression

TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

Provided electricity and jobs in rural South

AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act

Paid farmers to reduce production

NRA National Recovery Administration

Set fair wages prices and working conditions

Social Security Act (1935)

Provided pensions unemployment insurance and aid

Wagner Act

Protected workers’ rights to unionize

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Enforced labor laws and protected unions

Fair Labor Standards Act

Set minimum wage maximum hours and banned child labor

Good Neighbor Policy

US reduced intervention in Latin America

Critics of New Deal

Said it gave too much government power or didn’t go far enough

Kellogg Briand Pact

Agreement to outlaw war (ineffective)

Munich Conference (1938)

Policy of appeasement allowing Hitler to take land

Cash and Carry

Allowed Allies to buy US goods if paid cash and transported them

Lend-Lease Act (1941)

US supplied Allies with aid before entering WW2

Peacetime draft (WW2)

First US draft before officially entering war

WW2 Homefront

Women worked (Rosie the Riveter) Japanese internment camps migration for jobs

Big Three Teheran Conference (1943)

Allied leaders planned D-Day invasion

Yalta Conference (1945)

Planned postwar Europe and UN creation

Potsdam Conference (1945)

Tensions rose over Germany and Soviet control