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US Hist. Topic 31-34
A P US History
| Alth Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Share the wealth plan | Plan of Huey Long to take money from the wealthy to aid the poor during the Great Depression |
| Wagner Act (NLRA) | Gave workers the right to organize in unions and bargain collectively |
| Marcus Garvey | African American leader in 1920s who advocated black separatism |
| Margaret Sanger | Fought for women's right to use birth control |
| Article X of League of Nations | Created opposition in the U.S. Senate over the provision requiring members of the League of Nations to assist each other if attacked |
| Platt Amendment | Limited Cuban Independence by giving the U.S. a naval base and the right to intervene in Cuba |
| Alfred T. Mahan | Argued for U.S. expansion overseas by acquiring naval bases around the world |
| Joseph Pulitzer | "yellow journalist" who stirred up public outrage against Spain and pushed for war in Cuba after the Maine explosion in 1898 |
| 14 points | Pres. Woodrow Wilson's plan for post-WWI peace: freedom of seas, end of colonialism, League of Nations |
| The "Lost Generation" writers | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis and others criticized the materialistic culture of the "Roaring 20s" |
| Bonus Army | WWI veterans who marched on Washington DC to demand early payment of a promised bonus during the Great Depression |
| Open Door Policy | U.S. policy initiated by Sect. of State John Hay calling for European powers, Japan, & Russia to allow free access to China trade by respecting Chinese territory and self-rule |
| Scopes Trial | A court battle over the right to teach evolution in Tenn. schools argued by Clarence Darrow and Williams J. Bryan . |
| The Roosevelt Corollary | An expansion of the Monroe Doctrine by T. Roosevelt by which the U.S. would use armed force to intervene in Latin America to protect its interests |
| Reasons for U.S. expansion during the 1890s | Industrial and Agriculture boom creates need for new markets, Social Darwinism inspired desire for a U.S. empire, Josiah Strong's writings inspired missionaries to travel overseas, development of new Steel navy and Alfed Mahan, yellow journalists |
| Events leading to U.S. entry into WWI | Unrestricted submarine attacks by Germany, Zimmerman Telegraph |
| Causes of Spanish-American War | Yellow journalists (Pulitzer &Hearst) exaggerated Spanish atrocities in Cuba, sinking of the U.S.S. Maine blamed on Spain |
| The Great Migration | Movement of millions of African Americans from the South to Northern cities to work during WWII, causing racial tensions and riots |
| Harlem Renaissance | A period of popularity in African American culture, centered in Harlem, NY: Jazz, art, Langston Hughes' poetry, and political activism flourished in the 1920s |
| Flappers | Young women in the 1920s who challenged the traditional roles and appearance of women: short hair, exotic dress, drinking, smoking, working |
| Red Scare | hysterical Fear of Communism following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and anarchist bombings in the US led to Nativist movements against immigrants from E. & S. Europe due to diff. culture. Socialists such as Eugene Debs & I.W.W. were targeted |
| New Deal programs | CCC, TVA, AAA, NRA, Wagner Act, Social Security |
| New Deal Programs struck down by the Supreme Court | AAA & NRA |
| Sacco & Vanzetti | italian anarchists executed based on weak evidence during the Red Scare period |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) | New Deal program to limit farm production in order to raise prices during the Great Depression |
| Court-packing plan of FDR | Roosevelt tried to get congress to allow the president to appoint more justices to the Supreme Court, from 9 to 15, in order to get New Deal Programs approved |
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