History midterm Multiple choice

National Woman’s Party/Alice Paul

Was a well known suffragist and she was arrested after picketing the white house,

had a 7 months jail sentence and went on  hunger strike where she was forced feed and was in charge of the national women party NAWSA. 

Newlands Reclamation Act -

This act allowed  federal funds to be used for irrigation and land development projects.

Children’s Bureau

A federal government new commitment to provoke individual and family welfare for the community to lessen abuse and neglect. 

Underwood Tariff

This was to lower tariff rate to make one side of the party happy about tariffs. 

NAACP

The national association for the advancement of colored people. They fought for african american right to vote and many more things. 

Federal Reserve System -  

This introduced the central bank to oversee policy. Just help the bank  to effectively respond to stress in the future and create a stable financial system. 

Progressive Party - 

Also known as the bull moose party that theodore Roosevelt was in thai third party in the united states it was progressive party

Clayton Antitrust Act -

Act promotes unfair business practice that could harm consumers.

Socialists

The idea that the government should own and operate industry for the community. 

Direct primary -

A pre-election where there is a vote to help an individual party vote  a representative to be a candidate for the office . Like Kamala Harris and Donald   Trump for the last election. 

League of Nations -

Created through the fourteen points whose goal is to goal = preserve peace + prevent future wars.

Red Scare

The nationwide panic from communist revolution the ani that communist were causing the working strike and was going to take over america. 

Link between radicalism and immigration

Fear , government crackdown, society suspicion.

Boston Police Strike -

When the police went on strike for better time and wages in boston and they all refused to work until there became an agreement

1919/Race Riots -

Chicago Race riots that killed a lot of people and injured a lot of others . 

Scopes Trial -

The trial for a teacher who taught evolution even though there was an act that said it wasn't real and you can’t teach it.

18^th/21^st Amendments -

A period from 1919 to 1933 that made the distribution , sale and consumption of alcohol illegal in the United states by the 18th amendment and the 21 repeal the prohibition.

Harlem Renaissance -

The flourishing of African America in literature and art in the 1920, started in Harlem, New York and spread to urban cameras in America ( Figures  : Langston Hughes, Claude Mckay. W.E.B DuBois.

Volstead Act -

Bill passed by congress to enforce the 18 amendment. 

Cotton Club -

famous Harlem nightspot = where Duke Ellington got his start (composer, pianist, and band leader)

Fundamentalism -

A movement or belief system that emphasizes a strike adheres to a theological doctrine.

Emergency Quota Act -

laws that established a system to place a 3% entry limit on the number of immigrants from each country. 

UNIA/Marcus Garvey -

An african american leader during the 1920s that found theuniversal  negro improvement  association    and tried to push african americans nationalist to celebrate in africa pride and culture and tried to get them to move back to Africa . 

Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire  

- A factory fire in New York killed a lot of workers because of unchecked fire codes that exposed the unfair working conditions and unsanitary factories.

Muckrakers.

-A journalist that uncovers abuse and corruption in society / large business corporations. A lot of time they proused articles with progress ideas and got the name for Theodore Roosevelt

19^th Amendment -

The 19 amendment was passed in 1990 guaranteeing  women the right to vote in the next primary election. 

Nationalism -

One's loyalty or devolution or intense pride to their nation and it was a very important ideology in Europe at this time. 

Zimmerman Telegram -

The telegram Britain intercepted from Germany to Mexico asking for aid in the war and in return they would give Mexico some land if they helped get the Us in the war. 

Selective Service -

Authorized the expansion of subscription.

The Great Migration -

When all of the african american people who were enslaved in the south move up north to find new and better jobs to work in and start a new life. 

Schenck v. The United States -

The supreme court ruling = limited an individual freedom of speech if the work spoken constituted  a “ clear and present danger”.

“Big Four” -

United Kingdom, Soviet Union , United States and china.

Vladimir Lenin -

Founder of russia communist party 

Armistice -

Signed november 11 in 1918 a momentary break in the fighting for a short period of time

What empires were dissolved at the end of WWI? -

The Russian empire , the German , austro-hungarian and the ottoman. 

Assembly line -

A line to get objects made faster like henry ford car assembly line.

Bank failures/the Great Depression -

the great depression lasted between 1929-1941 where a lot of people lost their jobs and a lot of people lost their jobs, many because so many banks failed because of bank runs and printing too much money. 

President Hoover’s approach to ending the Depression -

he signed the Emergency relief construction  giving a lot of people jobs and the ability to loan money out from banks to make investments on houses, cars, etc.

“Bonus Army” -

Soldier who fought in WW1 were promised  a bonus but do to the great depression they wanted it early so they match up do D.C to protest and made a shanty town made up of put together house so they could protest to get there raise  faster 

President Hoover/election of 1928 -

Hoover defeated Alfred E smith who was a democrat by electoral votes 444-87 votes and become president 

Causes of the Great Depression

There were many causes in great depression like the Wall street crash of 1929, bank failures, overproduction, working wages and hours, agricultural ,

Hobos/riding the rails

- People who sneak past railroad police ot snake into boxcars on train for a free ride somewhere 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -  

Was released in 1944 to raise revenue for and created propaganda with it charters for WW2

Reconstruction Finance Corporation -

passed with the Reconstruction finance corporation on january 22 1932  to provide emergency financing facility for financial institutions to aid in financing agriculture. 

Effects of decline in auto sales- 

The decline affected the government revenue and taxes from car sales and related industries to decrease which impacted public finances. 

Dust Bowl

A ecological disaster that struck the great plain caused by drought and uncultivated fields with many dust storms that buried  crops and livestock and caused health problems and many families had to leave and got the name okies. 

“Bank Holiday” -

Closed remaining banks before bank runs could put them out of business 

FDR/”court packing plan” -

The act of changing the political balance of power in a national judicial system may cause southern Descartes to fear new justices would overturn segregation . 

“Federal Number One” program -

Established in 1935 its goal was to generate a greater recovery by building , roadways, public building , airports , bridges, parks and the federal one enhance, artist, musician , theater people ad writers which create pieces of art for the public building and they wrote and directed plays and composed music and record stores of those who have been enslaved. 

New Deal coalition (new voters to Democratic party in 1936) -

Caused a lot more people  to switch sides they voted for. 

Adolf Hitler -

( leader of the Nazi party) called for the unification of all germans. 

Nazi -Soviet non aggression pact

august of 1939 when it was signed with germany and soviet union promised to not attack each other for 10 years. 

the Battle of Britain -

Was an air force attack on Britain by the nazi it was the first major military campaign fought entirely by airplanes. 

Nuremberg Laws

A set of antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany against Jewish that took a lot of their rights away in germany. 

Kristallnacht -

The night of broken glass, when nazi stormed shattering glass and vandalized jewish own business, synagogues and homes austria. .  

Reasons why Jewish immigration was limited into the United States

Many Americans believe that refugees would take a lot of the job and be too needy and political reasons to not be in the war at all.  

Lend-Lease Act

A system that allowed the US to lend or lease war supplies to any places that seem vital to the defense of the United states. 

Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union

June 22 1941 they invaded the soviet union breaking the Nazi-soviet non aggression pact and killing a lot of soviet jews and took over Leningrad. 

Atlantic Charter -

joint declaration by Franklin D roosevelt  and the british prime minister churchill on august 14 1941 and roosevelt got around sending ships to british without breaking neutrality  during the war and upsetting congress, 

Pearl Harbor/America enters WWII

This was a surprise attack on the United States base in Hawaii when Japan bombed something important, killing a lot of Americans and later on  being one of the reasons America joined the war.