AMH Test #2

Benjamin Harrison

grandson of 9th president

chester arthur

signed pendleton civil service act of 1883

U.S.S Maine

sinks in havana harbor february 15th 1898

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Naval strategist and author of the influence of sea power upon history

William Jennings Bryan

Democrats nominated candidate, populist supported , free silver movement = silver backed  US $$$

Hull House

 immigrants gathered to eat debate, and to acquire tools to live in new country.

19th Amendment

women can vote

16th amendment

income tax

17th amendment

election of senators

18th amendment

prohibited alcohol

Theodore Roosevelt-

assistant secretary to McKinley " forms rough riders" 1898 - youngest president 42

sherman anti-trust act

signed by Benjamin Harrison, prevents monopolies, outlawed companies that restrained  interstate trade or commerce 

NAACP

A civil rights organization in the US - formed in 1909 wanted advanced justice for African Americans

Progressivism

movement from 1900 - 1920 I wanted to better US life." wanted "progress"

Woodrow Wilson

president from 1913 - 1921 - "new freedom" opportunity for all 

great migration

black people move north and west 1915 and 1970

Marcus Garvey

black nationalism: racial pride black owned business return to Africa universal a Negro improvement Association

General John J. Pershing

black jack American expeditionary forces

Lusitania

 British passenger liner carried 1,198 person on a fatal trip may 1915 sank by German u-boat  

Panama Canal

The most celebrated foreign policy accomplishment for Teddy Roosevelt begins 1904

Selective Service act

congress passed may of 191 7

Trench warfare

 between enemy trenches was man's land, shell craters filled with barbed wire

Zimmerman telegram

telegram from German foreign minister to German ambassador in Mexico and Arizona

William H. Taft

1909 - 1913 filed 90 anti-trust suits including standard oil and American tobacco only man  to be president and supreme court Justice

women's Christian temperance union

 led fight against alcohol, wanted it prohibited blamed it for divorce crime  and unemployment 

Warren Harding

1921 - 1923 won election of 1920 by promising return of normalcy 

 kkk 2nd phase

William Simmons 1915 attacked Africans, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants 

Langston Hughes

“I am A negro I am beautiful “, American poet and social activist

F Scott Fitzgerald

 great Gatsby 1925

 The jazz singer

Al Jolson

Ernest Hemingway

 A farewell to arms 1929

 American civil liberties Union

founded by Roger Baldwin Crystal Eastman and other (1920)

Margret Sanger

 planned parenthood birth control advocate and American birth control league 1921

welfare capitalism

coorporate strategy to improve work and wage conditions 

Herbert Hoover

won the election of 1928 pleased with the economy and didn't want a lot of change 

 scottsboro case

 9 black teenage boys accused of rape

reconstruction finance Corp

 largest Hoover program of economic aid. "Trickle down "

Events that led the U.S to Declare war on Germany in 1917??

1. May 7th 1915 - Lusitania was sunk by German u boats killing 128 american passengers

2. January 1917 - British Intelligence captures the zimmerman note (telegram) … Sends message to mexico to attack U.S and reclaim lost territory from the mexican american war.

3. January 1917 - Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warefare and sinks U.S merchant ships no warning

Causes of the great depression

1. Unequal distribution of wealth : people were either very poor or very rich, 20% lived in proverty

2. Bank Failures: Banks were poorly managed, people lost money , and 7k banks closed.

3. Increase in unemployment: new equipment required less workers

4. Farm Surplus: drop in farm price and farmers lost farms because no one need the food

League of Nations-

promote peace through collective security

Interstate Commerce Act

addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business

Grover Cleveland

The First Democrat elected after the Civil War, Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later.