UNIT 7 STUDY GUIDE

Question 1

ROOSEVELT COROLLARY
(DECEMBER 1904)

Answer 1

United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States or invite “foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations.”

Question 2

DOLLAR DIPLOMACY

Answer 2

a foreign policy in which the United States lent money to foreign countries in return for the ability to make decisions for the governments of those countries.

Question 3

WOODROW WILSON
(president from 1913-1921)

Answer 3

-the leading architect of the League of Nations,

-(14 points)Proposal made by Wilson to outline his vision for ending WW1 in a way to prevent such a war from happening again

Question 4

Congress of Industrial organization
(CIO)

Answer 4

A federation of unions organizing workers to industrial unions in the US and Canada(1935-1955)

Question 5

Domestic Consumption
(DMC)

Answer 5

Measures the total amount of materials directly used by an economy

Question 6

Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA)

Answer 6

1923 End legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment ,and other legal matters.

Question 7

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 7

Bribery Scandal
secret leasing of federal oil reserves and corruption at the highest level of the government of the US

Question 8

Schenck v US

Answer 8

Schenck was charged with conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act of 1917 by trying to cause insubordination in the military and obstruct recruitment.

Question 9

Progressive movements view on ww1

Answer 9

Progressives were worried that American involvement in the war would supersede domestic social reforms.

Question 10

Civilian conservation corps
(CCC)

Answer 10

a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942

Question 11

committee on public info

Answer 11

an independent agency of the government of the United States under the Wilson administration created to influence public opinion to support the US in World War I

Question 12

Howley smoot tariff

Answer 12

a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States. Sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley, it was signed by President Herbert Hoover

Question 13

women in congress

Answer 13

• Women’s role in WW1 influenced the idea that all of the countries female citizens deserved the right to vote

Question 14

First new deal

Answer 14

the pressing banking crisis through the Emergency Banking Act and the 1933 Banking Act.

Question 15

Espionage and sedation laws

Answer 15

Espionage- made it illegal to interfere with the war effort
Sedation-harsh penalties for a wide range of dissenting speech (abusing the American gov, flag, constitution and military)

Question 16

American Protected league

Answer 16

Organization of private citizens sponsored by the United States Department of Justice that worked with federal law enforcement agencies during the World War I era

Question 17

Eugene v Debs

Answer 17

American Socialist leader and five time presidential candidate, created social democratic party of America

Question 18

Eugenics

Answer 18

Eugenicists worldwide believed that they could perfect human beings and eliminate so-called social ills through genetics and heredity

Question 19

Cultural Pluralism

Answer 19

minority groups participate fully in the dominant society, yet maintain their cultural differences.

Question 20

Americanization

Answer 20

The process of an immigrant to the US becoming someone who shares American cultures values beliefs and customs
( For example, learning American English and educating children of immigrants)

Question 21

Harlem Renaissiance

Answer 21

artistic and cultural activity among African Americans between the end of WW1, the onset of the Great Depression

Question 22

Gentlemen’s Agreement

Answer 22

unwritten agreement backed by the integrity of the counterparty to actually abide by its term

Question 23

Du Bois

Answer 23

Civil rights activists who created NAACP and believed social change could be accomplished only through agitation and protest

Question 24

Garvey

Answer 24

Founder of UNIA that aimed to achieve Black nationalism through celebration of African history and culture, he challenged major thought leader Du Bois

Question 25

Washington

Answer 25

African American Activist who believed self sufficiency (thought giving white compliance would lower the violence and gain their acceptance)

Question 26

Russian rev. effect on U.S

Answer 26

US participated in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. US withheld diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union until 1933

Question 27

president Wilson perceived in Paris

Answer 27

Seen him as magnificently enthusiastic but opposed the Fourteen Points

Question 28

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 28

Treaty signed that formally ended WW1(Germany lost territory, disarmed, had to pay, lost overseas colonies)

Question 29

Socialism

Answer 29

Economic system that major industries are owned by workers themselves rather than private businesses or the state

Question 30

New Deal

Answer 30

Series of programs to improve the lives of those suffering from the events of the depression.

Question 31

Saco and Vanzetti case

Answer 31

The italian-born anarchists arrested in Massachusetts on the charges of murder and robbery in 1920

Question 32

National Industrial Recovery

Answer 32

Act to encourage Industrial recovery, establish codes of fair practice for industries and to promote industrial growth

Question 33

Red scare

Answer 33

A period during the early 20th century when Americans grew afraid of a communist takeover caused by Russian Revolution.

Question 34

President Calvin Coolidge’s view on buisness

Answer 34

Believed America a land of pure and unalloyed materialism

Question 35

Tennessee Valley Authority

Answer 35

Deal created to generate electric power and control floods in a seven U.S state region around the Tennessee River Valley

Question 36

Teller Amendment

Answer 36

Proclaimed that the United States would not establish permanent control over Cuba

Question 37

Economic growth/consumption

Answer 37

• Increasing capacity of the economy to satisfy the wants of goods and services of the member of society
  -Displaying wealth and status to others rather than form enjoyment of the goods or services

Question 38

liberalism & New deal relationship

Answer 38

The new deal focused more on the individual liberty of Humankind and the foundation for a democratic society

Question 39

economic failures during great depression

Answer 39

Bank failures, stock market crash, businesses failed and wages decreased

Question 40

Wagner Act

Answer 40

July 5, 1935 establish the Nation Labor Relations Board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector

Question 41

Social security Act

Answer 41

Provided unemployment insurance, old age insurance and welfare programs, offered immediate relief to families

Question 42

Ending of Great Depression

Answer 42

ww2 marked the end of the great depression

Question 42

Keynesian economics

Answer 42

Franklin Roosevelt’s new deal used the economic policies of John Maynard Keynes in effort to rid the country of the great depression

Question 43

Success of new deal

Answer 43

-People were put back to work
-It saved capitalism
-Restored faith in the American economic system

Question 44

Failures of the new deal

Answer 44

-Minorities were helped least by the new deal
-Sharecroppers were no longer need and lost their jobs and homes
-The fed gov was so involved in the economy it harms the free enterprise
-Failed to end massive employment