APUSH Period 7

What are muckrakers?

Journalists like Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell who exposed corruption and social ills.

What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?

An act that strengthened the government's power to break up monopolies (trusts).

What do the 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments represent?

Direct election of senators, Prohibition, and Women’s Suffrage.

What are the Three R’s of the New Deal?

Relief (jobs for people), Recovery (fixing the economy), and Reform (changing laws to prevent future crises).

What did the Social Security Act of 1935 create?

A safety net for the elderly and disabled, expanding the federal government's role.

What is the purpose of the Glass-Steagall Act / FDIC?

To create insurance for bank deposits to prevent 'bank runs.'

What was the Great Migration?

The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North for jobs and to escape Jim Crow.

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

An explosion of African American art, music (Jazz), and literature in the 1920s.

What was the First Red Scare?

A period of intense fear of communists and radicals after the Russian Revolution (1919-1920).

What did the Immigration Act of 1924 impose?

Strict limitations on 'new' immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Who were the Lost Generation?

Writers like Hemingway and Fitzgerald who felt disillusioned by WWI and the consumerism of the 1920s.

What was debated in the Fundamentalism vs. Modernism conflict?

Whether evolution should be taught in schools, seen in the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial.

What does imperialism refer to in U.S. history?

The expansion of U.S. influence, exemplified by the Spanish-American War (1898) and the acquisition of Puerto Rico and the Philippines.

What is the Roosevelt Corollary?

An addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserting that the U.S. would act as the 'policeman' of Latin America.

What were Wilson’s 14 Points?

His idealistic plan for post-WWI peace, which included the League of Nations (which the U.S. never joined).

What characterized U.S. foreign policy in the 1930s?

Isolationism, reinforced by the Neutrality Acts.

What was the Lend-Lease Act?

A policy that allowed the U.S. to provide supplies to the Allies before entering WWII.

What did Executive Order 9066 lead to?

The Japanese Internment during WWII.