Question | Answer |
prohibition-18TH AMENDMENT | production, transportation and sale of alcohol was banned |
effects of prohibition | bootlegging, speak easies, mob activity |
suffrage | ability to vote |
imperialism | shine on global stage and expand sphere of influence |
"square deal" | T. Roosevelt, everyone should have a fair deal at a good life |
Panama Canal | Teddy Roosevelt, used Panamanian people to get land for canal |
"manifest destiny" | we have a right and a responsibility to expand our influence |
Trust, Monopolies | companies come together to raise prices |
Who was the wartime president during WW I? | Wilson |
Allied Powers | Russia, France, U.K., Italy, U.S. |
Central Powers | Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire |
trench warfare | style of war that characterized WW1, war of attrition, what dragged out WW1 |
Espionage and Sedition Acts | prohibited U.S. citizens from speaking disrespectfully about the country during wartime |
League of Nations | Wilson's idea, maintain international peace, failed to pass |
Why didn't Congress approve League of Nations? | Didn't want to come to the aid of other countries, afraid it might pull the U.S. into future European Wars & conflicts. |
Great Migration | relocation of African Americans from the South to the North |
Germany forced to pay other countries | reparations |
convoy | system where merchant ships travel together for safety |
Assassination of Archduke | Spark that started WW1 |
Why did U.S. get involved in WWI? | Sinking of Lusitania, ties to Britain |
Treaty of Versailles | peace treaty ending the Great War, super unfair to Germanyball though |
Wilson's efforts at peace | League of Nations, 14 pts. |
Red Scare | paranoia in U.S. of people being communists |
Conflict between labor and management | low salaries + more workers + poor conditions = internal conflict + strikes |
consumer goods | people spent a lot of money on new things, often on credit |
urbanization | people flocked to cities |
flappers | women who dressed and acted like men, shock older generations |
Harlem Renaissance | jazz, went back to African roots with music and culture, didn't worry about white approval |
19th Amendment (Suffrage) | Susan B .Anthony |
The Maine | Ship that blew up in the Havana Harbor |
Fireside Chats | FDR using the radio to connect with the American people |
The philosophy of the "Gospel of Wealth" | People using their money to help people |
German Kaiser (Emperor/leader) during WW I | Kaiser Wilhelm |
George Herman Ruth The "Babe" | The Bambino, The Sultan of Swat, the most popular sports figure during the 1920's |