Question | Answer |
Progressivism in the 1900's can be described as? | Reforming societal issues such as welfare, morality (prohibition), economic/political reforms and trying to foster efficiency through Government intervention |
How did the roles of women change in the early 1900's? | By entering the workforce, getting educated and gaining the right to vote |
The presidency of Teddy Roosevelt can be described as? | Changing the role of the president by the way he campaigned and engaged the American people. |
What was President Roosevelt's Square Deal? | The President looking out for the average American in this country and not being taken advantage of by big business. |
Prohibition outlawed tobacco in the 1800's | False |
In what way was city governments were reformed during the progressive era? | By ending waste and political corruption. Often times this was done by muckrackers. |
Winning votes from state to state was successful for women in 1903 when they won a federal amendment? | False, they had a 3 prong approach to gaining suffrage and they were eventually successful is passing a constitutional amendment after WW1. |
Who wrote the book that gave President Roosevelt the inspirations to change the way meat was processed and sold? | Upton Sinclair |
Who used time and motion to become more efficient aka scientific management? | Frederick Winslow Taylor |
Who was a Governor of Wisconsin who was involved with the laboratory of Democracy? | Robert M. La Follette |
Who was the leader of the suffragists in the fight to gain the right to vote for women? | Susan B Anthony |
Which president was the first to combat big business? | Theodore Roosevelt |
What made the US start reaching to become an empire? | Desire for military strength, new markets, the belief of a superior culture |
What is a factor that brought the US to war with Spain? | Yellow journalism, De Lome letter, and destruction of the USS Maine |
What did the US get from the Spanish American War? | Freed Cuba (sort of) and gained the new territories of Puerto Rico and the Philippines. |
What country did the US almost go to war with during the early 1900's after General John Pershing was sent after Poncho Villa? | Mexico |
How did the US deal with getting new lands? | Set up a US flag and annexed the country |
Seward's Folly was the attempt to buy eastern continental Asian Russia (also known as Alaska)? | True |
The Treaty of Paris upset some become it looked as if the lands were being annexed for the benefit of the US and not of those people? | True |
The lands we acquired from the Spanish American war were happy to be under the control of the United States? | False |
Which president had the idea of Dollar Diplomacy? | William Howard Taft |
Which Cuban nationalist wanted the US to get involved in Cuban affairs with Spain? | Jose Marti |
What started WWI? | The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (this was the spark don't forget the 4 MAIN causes) |
What fighting was dominant during WWI? | Trench Warfare |
How did WWI NOT affect the United States? | Businesses came together and did away with competition |
What were the biggest controversies with the 14 points and the Treaty of Versailles? | The League of Nations |
What event brought the US into WWI? | German U-boats sinking Americans ships and killing American citizens. Remember the Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram |
The US made espionage acts during WWI to ensure freedom? | False |
The US gave the allies a boost and helped defeat the Central powers | True |
The government was conservative during WWI | False |
The Treaty of Versailles was accepted by the US Senate | False |
Who was in control of the US war economy? | David Lloyd George |
Which conscientious objector was a great soldier? | Alvin York |
What was a result of the war? | The fear of a communistic revolution (Red Scare) |
After WWI America can be described as | wanting to get back to worrying about itself and being an isolationist. |
Two words to describe Harding's administration? | Government Scandals |
How can Americas attitude towards immigrants be understood after WWI? | Sacco and Vanzetti, quota system in 1921, KKK. |
How did the US return to normal after the war? | The US returned to isolationism and conservatism |
What industry had the biggest impact in the 1920's? | The automobile |
Why was labor messed with after the war? | Their was a recession, workers sacrificed wages and hours, immigrants taking jobs, government regulations limited the power. |
What had the biggest impact on our economy in the 1920's? | The installment plan |
Which member of the Ohio gang leased oil reserve to oil companies for money | Albert B. Fall |
There we not many disputes due to the involvement of the Government running the economy during the first world war. | False, there were hundreds of strikes when the war ended |
Republican presidents helped the economy a lot in the 1920's | False |
The installment plan helped the economic prosperity during the 1920's | True |
America in the 1920's can be described as | Exciting |
In what way did America NOT change during the 1920's? | The Prohibition experiment ended |
What aspects caused Americas fear of immigrants during the 1920's | The Red Scare, the Quota System, and the KKK |
How did the role of women change in the 1920's? | Women became more liberal and tried to shed their traditional roles. |
What was the main reason for the explosion of the New Heroes during the 1920's? | Advent of the Radio (think sports stars, pilots, etc) |
Who was the most popular man in America during the 1920's was... | Charles Lindberg |
Famous writer in the 1920's... | Sinclair Lewis |
Famous writer in the 1920's... | Ernest Hemingway |
Famous writer in the 1920's... | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Famous writer in the 1920's... | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
What was the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's? | The incredible literary and artistic movement and expression of African Americans |
Author of The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Famous Harlem Renaissance musician expressing in Creole Jazz bands | Louis Armstrong |
The 1920's are known as a very good time for America with a large economic boom | True |
Organized crime thrived in the 1920's | True (largely thanks to prohibition) |
Factors that caused the Great Depression | Farmers income declined by more than half |
Factors that caused the Great Depression | Major industries started failing |
Factors that caused the Great Depression | Living on credit and the accumulation of debt (disappearance of the middle class) |
Factors that caused the Great Depression | 1/2 of the banks in America failed |
When did the Great Depression begin? | 1929 |
What were consequences of the Great Depression? | Bread lines, Soup Kitchens, Shantytowns, and banks failing |
What was not a psychological effect of the Great Depression? | The number of schools increased, but the suicide and incarceration rates both went up. |
How can one describe President Hoover's approach on the Great Depression? | Cautious- tried some things but not many |
How Hoover approached the Great Depression... | Boulder Dam project, Federal Home Loan Bank act, Backing Cooperatives to help farmers |
How can FDR's approach to the Great Depression be described as? | Invigorating- Took tons of action that worked to end the depression |
How did President Roosevelt attempt to calm and inform America during the Great Depression? | Fireside Chats |
Who did FDR receive criticism from at the end of the Great Depression? | Conservatives, Liberals, and the Supreme Court |
FDR's greatest attempt to end the Great Depression was... | Get money into the economy by creating jobs through new deal programs |
What was FDR's lasting achievement from the Great Depression? | Social Security Act |
Who profited during the 1930's? | Motion Picture Industries |
What was the biggest impact from the New Deal? | The increase in size of our Federal Government |