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Unit 5 us history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Trench warfare | Opposing armies fight from trenches dug into the ground |
| Gains for us women after WW1 | Showing they are more capable of doing things many doubted Getting more opportunities then before the war. |
| Sedition act of 1918 | Law that was expanded to criminalize a wide range of wartime |
| The great migration | A migration of African Americans moving from the south to the north, due to segregation, dehumanizing conditions, and racism |
| Allied powers | The begging three being France, Great Britain, and Russia |
| Minorities in the US armed forces- problems faced | Racism. |
| Why? What? | Because the leader of Austria-Hungary got assassinated. |
| 19th amendment | prohibits the denial of voting rights based on sex, granting women the right to vote in the United States |
| Buying stock “on margins” | allowed investors to purchase stock with borrowed money |
| Charleston | popular jazz dance from the 1920s, |
| Flappers | a generation of young, independent Western women in the 1920s who embraced a new lifestyle that challenged traditional social norms |
| Harlem renaissance | a cultural, social, and artistic explosion among African Americans from the 1920s to the 1930s, centered in Harlem, New York |
| Immigration polices of 1920’s | the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act) |
| Installment plans | reshaped the American economy and consumer habits by popularizing "buy now, pay later" credit for the middle class |
| Jazz music | Popular music genre |
| John scopes and the scopes monkey trail | a sensational 1925 court case in which high school teacher John T. Scopes was prosecuted for violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in public schools |
| Ku klux klan | American white supremacist, far-right terrorist hate group that has existed in three distinct eras. The Klan has targeted African Americans, Jews, immigrants, Catholics, and the LGBTQ+ community, among others. |
| Policies of Harding/coolidge/hoover | shared pro-business, laissez-faire policies that included tax cuts and reduced government intervention to promote economic growth. |
| Prohibition | a nationwide ban on the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933, enforced by the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act |
| Red scare | These periods were characterized by fear of communist, socialist, or anarchist influence, leading to government crackdowns on left-leaning individuals and organizations. |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | two Italian immigrant anarchists executed in 1927 for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of two men in South Braintree, Massachusetts |
| Teapot dome scandal | a major political corruption case in the early 1920s involving the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the presidential administration of Warren G. Harding |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act AAA | New Deal program created in 1933 to boost farm prices by reducing crop supply during the Great Depression |
| Bank holiday | refers to the one declared by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in March 1933 to stabilize the banking system during the Great Depression. |
| Bonus army | a group of World War I veterans and their families who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand early payment of their service bonuses during the Great Depression |
| Business cycle | sharp recession in 1920-1921 followed by a period of strong economic expansion known as the "Roaring Twenties," which ended abruptly with the Stock Market Crash of 1929. |
| Civilian conservation corps CCC | a U.S. government program established in 1933 during the Great Depression to provide jobs for young, unemployed men while conserving natural resources. |
| Dust bowl | severe dust storms that hit the U.S. Great Plains in the 1930s, causing ecological and economic damage that was intensified by the Great Depression. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Longest serving First Lady in America |
| FDIC (Federal deposit insurance corporation) | its creation in 1933 was a direct response to the widespread bank failures that occurred in the 1920s and early 1930s. |
| Fireside chat | one of a series of radio broadcasts made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the nation, beginning in 1933. |
| Great Depression: what caused it? | steep declines in industrial production and international trade, mass unemployment, widespread bank and business failures, and sharp increases in poverty and homelessness |
| Hoover, beliefs about role of government in economy | Hoover favored "volunteerism" and self-reliance, concerned that federal aid would foster dependency. |
| Roosevelt, beliefs about role of government in economy | Roosevelt,argued for government intervention to provide economic stability, regulate financial institutions, and support individuals directly, marking a significant shift in policy. |
| Hoovervilles | shantytowns built by the homeless during the Great Depression |
| First hundred days | the initial period of a new U.S. president's term, a benchmark for evaluating their administration's early actions and achievements. |
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