Progressives, Suffrage, WWI, and the Economy of the 1920s

Flashcards on the Progressive Era, Prohibition, Women's Suffrage, World War I, and the Economy of the 1920s.

Teddy Roosevelt as President

Believed in results and preferred the company of working-class people; regulated big government after industrialization.

Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)

Made it illegal to combine companies just to monopolize (90% control over the market).

Northern Securities

RR Trust case pursued by Teddy Roosevelt's administration.

The Jungle

Novel by Upton Sinclair that exposed conditions in the meatpacking industry.

Elkins Anti-Rebate Act (1903)

Illegal for RRs to offer rebates to volume shippers.

Meat Inspection Act (June 1906)

Established sanitation standards for workrooms and workers.

Pure Food and Drug Act (June 1906)

Made it illegal to sell contaminated products or meds without a label and created the Food and Drug Administration.

Harrison Narcotics Act (1914)

Addictive substances available by prescription only.

18th Amendment (Prohibition)

Banned the manufacture, distribution, and transportation of hard liquor.

Black Market

Criminals who smuggled liquor during Prohibition.

Alphonse Capone

Famous Chicago crime lord convicted of tax evasion.

21st Amendment (1933)

Repealed Prohibition.

19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote.

"The Woman Question" stereotypes

Belief that female brain could not handle politics and female physique was frail.

NWSA

National Woman Suffrage Association, advocating for a constitutional amendment.

AWSA

American Woman Suffrage Association, advocating for voting at the state level first.

19th Amendment

Became law in 1920, granting women the right to vote.

American Indian Citizenship Act

Act that granted citizenship to American Indians in 1924.

Triple Alliance (1882)

Alliance between Germany, Austria, and Italy.

Triple Entente (1904)

Alliance between France, Great Britain, and Russia.

Colonization of Africa

The colonization of Africa by European powers to obtain raw materials and establish markets.

Franz Ferdinand

Archduke of Austria whose assassination triggered World War I.

Von Schlieffen Plan

German military plan to quickly defeat France and then attack Russia.

US Neutrality Proclamation

Declared by the US under President Woodrow Wilson in August 1914.

U-boats

German submarines that attacked cargo ships.

Britain Declares War Zone, November 1914

British declaration establishing a war zone in the North Sea.

RMS Lusitania

Sunk by a German U-boat in May 1915, killing 128 Americans.

W. E. B. Du Bois

New leader of the African American community who encouraged black men to enlist in the military.

Zimmermann Telegram

Telegram from Germany to Mexico offering US territory in exchange for attacking the US.

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Treaty in which Russia dropped out of World War I.

USSR - Union Soviet Socialist Republics

New name for Russia after it dropped out of WWI.

Armistice

Ended on November 11, 1918, at 11:11 AM.

Germany Peace Treaty terms

Loss of Alsace-Lorraine, coal mining for France, build ships and trains for France, $33 billion in reparations.

Weimar Republic

New government established in Germany after WWI.

League of Nations

International organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson to prevent future wars.

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge

US Senator who opposed the Versailles Treaty.

Senator William Borah

US Senator who would never sign the Versailles Treaty.

Economy of 1920s

Consumer culture - Stock Market - Decade of millionaires.

Construction Boom (1920 - 1925)

Boom fizzles, layoffs, firing, quit buying.

Hoover’s response

Self-correcting economy.

Walter Waters

Bonus Expeditionary Force.

Presidential Election Results - 1932

F.D.R. and New Deal plan.

National bank holiday

Bank closure on March 5, 1933.