Unit 7 Vocab Flashcards
Open door policy
John Hay agreement to maintain American trade access to china
Spanish-American War
- Us support Cuba
Imperialism
Seek to dominate other countries politically, socially, religiously and or economically. Social Darwinism, white mans burden
Progressive movement
Social activism and political reform. 1890-1929. Eliminate corruption in government, protect workers and consumers, expand democracy.
Roosevelt, Taft, wilson
Settlement houses
Community centers for immigrants. Hull house by Jane Addams
Muckrakers
Jacob Riis- how the other half lives
Lincoln Steffens- shame of the cities
Ida Tarbell- history of standard oil
Uptown Sinclair- the jungle
New immigrants
1880-1920. SE EUROPE. Factory jobs, less Protestant, English, wealth, education
Booker T Washington
Former slave. Industrial education and economic opportunity. Tuskegee. Atlanta compromise
W E B Du Bois
Black social and economical equality. Niagara movement and Atlanta compromise
Meat inspection
Roosevelt. After Sinclair
Progressive amendments 16-19
16- federal income tax established
17- election of senators
18- prohibition of alcohol
19- women’s suffrage
Federal reserve act 1913
Woodrow Wilson. Central banking system (12)
Clayton Antitrust Act 1914
Outlaw monopolistic practices
Big stick policy
Roosevelt. Power and readiness to use military force if necessary
Roosevelt corollary 1904
TR extension of Monroe doctrine. US right to protect its economic interests in south and Central America by using military force
Gentleman’s agreement 1907
Limit japan immigration. Japanese children segregation in school stopped
Panama canal
Columbia. BIG STICK POLICY. Encourage panama revolt to build canal
Dollar diplomacy
Taft further economic power through loans in foreign countries
Fourteen points
Wilson. Self determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms, LON
Espionage and sedition acts
Oppressed freedom of speech. Schenk v US
Treaty of Versailles 1919
Peace settlement put on Germany
League of Nations
Protect the independence and territorial integrity of other nations
Carrie Chapman Catt
NWSA. Pass 19th amendment
Alice paul
National women’s party
1st red scare
Fear communism. Palmer raids round suspects
Immigration act of 1924
Quota for # of immigrants. 2%. No japan
Isolationism
- Republican want to withdraw from international politics
Kellog-Brian’s Pact 1928
Declare war illegal. Japan invades china
Henry ford
Assembly line. Make cars inexpensive
The great migration
African Americans leave south for better life in the north
Harlem Renaissance
Black creativity
Scopes Monkey trial
John Scopes. Religion vs science
Margaret Sanger
Legalize birth control
Lost generation
American literary notables after serving in military during WW1
Great depression
Stock prices up, over production, under consumption. Crash 1929
Reconstruction finance corporation
Herbert Hoover. Provide emergency funds to banks, insurance companies, railroads
Bonus army
WW1 vets want their money early. March on Washington.
Bank holiday
FDR close all banks. Reform insured money deposited in banks
1st new deal
Civilian conservation corps: create jobs for men 18-25
Federal Emergency Relief Adminsitration
Agricultural adjustment administration
Public works administration: roads, dams, public building
Tennessee valley authority: damns in rural
CCC FERA PWA TVA
Second new deal
Works progress administration: artists
Social security act: old age
National labor relations act: right to join labor union
Fair labor standards act: no child labor, minimum wage, 44 hrs
WPA SSA NLRA FLSA
Labor deals
Dust bowl
2 gens of drought, farm unusable. Okies
Indian Reorganization Act
Tried to restore the tribal basis of Indian life
Court Packing Bill
New Supreme Court members after 70 years
Roosevelt recession
Economic recovery die. “New deal failed”
Neutrality act of 1939
Allowed for arms trade
Axis powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
Lend lease act
Food, oil, and materials supplied to France, GB, China, USSR
Pearl harbor
Surprise by Japanese. US entry to WW2
Bracero program
Encourage Mexicans to work the fields in US
Korematsu v US
Executive order 9066: Japanese Americans sent to internment camps regardless of citizenship
D Day
General Eisenhower. Invasion of Normandy in operation Overlord
Holocaust
11 million genocide. 6 million jews
Yalta conference 1945
Us, UK, Soviet Union. Unconditional surrender of Germany, occupation zones, Stalin join effort against Japan
Potsdam Conference 1945
War crime trial for nazi, unconditional surrender of Japan. Trumann
Manhattan project
Develop atomic bomb in secret. Rober Oppenheimer
Hiroshima
First city targeted by nuclear weapon
