1st Semester Test - US History

Extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people

Granted women the right to vote

A surging economy created an era of mass consumerism and new ideas

The policy of carefully mediated negotiation supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military

Lower the distance, cost, and time it took for ships to carry cargo between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, and to increase US power in South America

MAIN causes for WW1

A late 19th and early 20th century United States Navy officer, an instructor at the Naval War College, author, and naval historian. He is considered America's foremost naval strategist, advocating for the expansion of the US fleet

The expansion of African American music, art, and literature in New York during the 1920s.

President during WW1

Widespread fear of a potential rise of communism and anarchism

Raids led by General A. Mitchell Palmer attempting to find and arrest communist, anarchist, and socialist

Prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation

What was FDR’s court-packing plan?

The ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor

A peace treaty that compelled the Spanish to relinquish claims on Cuba, and to cede sovereignty over Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the United States

General of the American Expeditionary Force during WW1

sinking of the Lusitania, Germany’s free-range submarine warfare, and the ZImmermann Telegram

Why were tanks used in WW1?

Required a paying of financial reparations, disarming, losing territory, and giving up all of its overseas colonies

The banning of purchasing and selling of alcoholic beverages

What types of transportation were most popular during the 1920s?

A government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses.

effects of the Dust Bowl

Grenades, machine guns, poison gas

The Federal Government only has those powers delegated in the Constitution, if it isn't listed, it belongs to the states or to the people

The Gilded Age saw the most growth in what area?

What was the Progressive Party’s platform?

A power reserved to the voters to propose legislation by petition

A public vote on a particular issue

a power reserved to the voters that allows the voters to demand the removal of an elected official

Joined the workforce in increasing numbers, participated actively in the nation's new mass consumer culture, and enjoyed more freedom in their personal lives

Harding’s slogan and platform, calling for disengagement from foreign intervention and for a return to business as usual

Escape racial violence, pursue economic and educational opportunities, and obtain freedom from the oppression of Jim Crow

what invention, invented by Henry Ford, help speed up production of goods?

what ideas did the Scopes Trial challenge?

The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals

risky business deals or transactions

Louisiana senator who advocated for the “Share our wealth” movement during the Great Depression

insured bank deposits so people would not lose their money if banks failed

similar to the PWA but focused on conservation projects

employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads

insured banks, mortgage companies, and other lenders, thereby encouraging the construction of new homes and the repair of existing structures

provided emergency relief with respect to home mortgage indebtedness, to refinance home mortgages, to extend relief to the owners occupied by them and who are unable to amortize their debt elsewhere

provided for unemployment insurance, old-age insurance, and means-tested welfare programs

1. Open diplomacy without secret treaties

2. Economic free trade on the seas during war and peace

3. Equal trade conditions

4. Decrease armaments among all nations

5. Adjust colonial claims

6. Evacuation of all Central Powers from Russia and allow it to define its own independence

7. Belgium to be evacuated and restored

8. Return of Alsace-Lorraine region and all French territories

9. Readjust Italian borders

10. Austria-Hungary to be provided an opportunity for self-determination

11. Redraw the borders of the Balkan region creating Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro

12. Creation of a Turkish state with guaranteed free trade in the Dardanelles

13. Creation of an independent Polish state

14. Creation of the League of Nations

an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States

3 R’s to end the Great Depression