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US History 2 Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Progressive Goal | wanted to improve the workplace, solve social issues, and reform the government |
| Muckrakers | middle class progressives/journalists who exposed the corruption |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | factory fire the killed 146 employees, which brought awareness to the working conditions |
| Three Goals Of FDR's new deal | relief, recovery, reform |
| Movies Were Popular During The Depression Because... | they provided entertainment so people could escape reality |
| FDR Hired Photographers To... | document the depression and make sure it never happened again |
| Moral Diplomacy | President Wilson's program that worked to promote human rights, national integrity, and opportunity |
| Big Stick Policy | policy by Teddy Roosevelt ("speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far") |
| Dollar Diplomacy | Taft's foreign policy that substituted dollars for bullets |
| The Jungle | a book written to expose the gruesome details of the meat packing industry by Upton Sinclair |
| Workplace Reforms Progressives Fought For | reduce hours, no child labor, women protection, minimum wages |
| Social Reforms Progressives Fought For | people have greater control of the government, election reforms, government more responsive |
| McKinley's Foreign Policy | he wanted to make the U.S. a major power by gaining territory |
| Impact The Panama Canal Had On U.S. Trade And Travel | the canal cut 8,000 miles off the trip from the East coast to the West coast of the U.S. |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Hawaiian nationalist, resented white planters power, abolished the Constitution, overthrown by U.S. marines |
| Roosevelt Corollary | an addition the the Monroe Doctrine asserting American right to intervene in Latin American affairs |
| Plessy vs Ferguson | allowed states to create segregation laws for it was ultimately decided that they did not break the Constitution |
| National Woman’s Party | this party fought for women’s right to vote through lobbying and petitioning |
| Women’s Christian Temperance Union | program where women were devoted to social reform through religion |
| US Decision On The Philippines After The Spanish-American War | Americans debated whether or not to take over the Philippines, but ultimately took it over |
| US Decision On Cuba And Puerto Rico After The Spanish-American War | U.S. took over both territories for navy bases and tropical agriculture |
| Boxer Rebellion | killed foreign missionaries and besieged foreign diplomats’ district in Beijing, multinational force of European, American, and Japanese troops, China pays money to repair the damage from the rebellion |
| Great Migration | around 6 million Black citizens moved from Southern U.S. to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states to escape racial violence and obtain some sort of freedom and education |
| Impact Of The US Workforce Post-WWI | women and minorities lost their jobs early on after the end of the war |
| Chemical Warfare | Germany created a chemical gas that caused health issues to eliminate enemies quicker |
| American Expeditionary Forces | armed forces that the United States sent to Europe during WWI commanded by General John J. Pershing (master in military tactics) |
| What Wilson Wanted To Achieve With His “Peace Without Victory Speech” | Wilson wanted to establish peace amongst nations where they could all be ‘friends’ |
| Zimmerman Note | intercepted note from German’s minister to the Mexican government stating that Germany would offer territory if Mexico joined them |
| Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | spark of WWI, Ferdinand was shot by a Serbian Nationalist which caused Germany and Austria-Hungary to fight Serbia |
| Sinking Of The Lusitania | British passenger ship sunk by German U-Boats, turning the U.S. against Germany |
| Global Impact Of WWI | the U.S. became a world power, created new-nation states, destroyed many empires and took away resources |
| Immigration After WWI Decreased Because... | immigration was restricted to only certain people |
| Assembly Line | created to pick up the pace and mass of production, especially automobiles, where the cycle is separated into parts |
| KKK | in the 20s, the second KKK group came up, a group of hating terrorists who believed in white supremacy |
| Sedition Act | reduced freedom of speech rights by prohibiting any false or malicious speech about the government |
| Prohibition | prohibited the sale and transportation of alcohol, leading to speakeasies and bootleggers |
| Which Group Of Workers Benefited The Least From The Economic Boom Of The 1920s | farmers, African Americans, and Native Americans suffered from job loss and unemployment in the 1920s |
| Reasons For Bank Failure In 1929 | too many people were buying on margin and credit, and the bank handed out too many loans |
| Business Cycle | the business cycle was destroyed after the economy hit its lowest point |
| Herbet Hoover's Policy In The Great Depression | believed the government should be uninvolved, liked survival of the fittest, and feared socialism |
| Frances Perkins | American workers-rights advocate, and the first woman to serve in the Presidential cabinet |
| Relationship Between The New Deal And Arts | artists of the new deal brought entertainment during the Great Depression to distract citizens |
| FDR Controlled The... | executive branch |
| Critics Of The New Deal Complained That... | FDR was getting involved too much |
| Social Security Act | provided disability insurance, unemployment insurance, and pensions |
| Works Progress Administration Effect On Artists | provided them with job opportunities |
| WWII Women Employment | women were offered jobs like never before because men were out at war |
| Nuremberg Laws | Anti-seministic and racist laws establish in Germany by the Nazi party |
| FDR Quarantine Speech | stated that Japan should be quarantined due to their attack on China |
| Potsdam Conference | meeting between Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman about the end terms of WWII, despite the fact that the war was ongoing |
| D-Day | naval and airborne attack on Normandy France by Allied Powers |
| Island Hopping | a military strategy to only capture certain Japanese islands |
| Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor | Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in response to oil embargo |
| Trust | combination of businesses joined together to control a market |
| Teddy Roosevelt Though A "Bad Trust" Was... | one that exploited its consumers and jacked up rates |
| Group Who Was Not Helped By The New Deal | African Americans (they were often the last hired and the first fired) |
| Nations That Became Powerful After WWII | The Soviet Union and The United States |
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