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Alice Paul
Who formed the National Woman's Party?
Industrialization and urbanization; Working-class poverty and the filth of crime of urban society
What did Progressive believe created social problems?
United States Forest Service
What did President Roosevelt establish to manage timber resources?
authorized the use of federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects
What did the Newlands Reclamation Act do?
W.E.B Du Bois
Who founded the NAACP?
a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society
Muckraker
prohibited the employment of children under the age of 14 in factories
What did the Keating-Owen Act do?
Building codes to require fire escapes.
What did the tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company led to?
The government
What did Progressives think needed to play a more active role in society's problems?
authorized the use of federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects
What were the conditions of the graduated income tax?
Navy
Which branch of the military allowed for women to enlist in WWI?
Germany Austria-Hungary, Italy
What countries were members of the triple alliance?
Comitte of Public Information
What organization was tasked with "selling" the war?
To spy on enemy troops
What were airplanes used for in WWI?
Dig trenches
What did troops do to protect themselves from enemy fire?
Convoys
No American troop ships were sunk due to what system?
France, Russia, Britain, Belgium
What countries were members of the triple entente?
Liberty bonds
What helped pay for the cost of the war?
Artistic development, racial pride, and political organization combined in a flowering of African American arts
Harlem Renaissance
Advertisement
What do businesses do to create consumers for their new products?
Mexicans
What group of people was exempt from restrictions placed by the National Origins Act of 1924?
First talking motion pictures
What type of film ushers in the "golden age' of Hollywood?
Mass Media
What helped create a sense of a shared experience that helped unify the nation?
hostility toward immigrants by native-born people
Nativism
that the Bible was literally true and without error. They defended the Protestant faith against ideas implying that human beings derived their moral behavior from society and nature, not God
Fundamentalism
A club where African Americans can perform their art
What was the Cotton Club?
gave the U.S. Treasury Department the power to enforce Prohibition
What was the purpose of the Volstead Act?
American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and that uses syncopated rhythms and improvisation
Jazz-
create a pool of money
What was the purpose of the National Credit Corporation?
The government
Who did farmers have to turn their farm over to during the depression?
Great Plains
What was the location of the Dust Bowl?
To claim their promised bonus
Nickname given by the press for WWI veterans marching to D.C.?
$1.5 billion for public works and $300 million in emergency loans to states for direct relief
What did the Emergency Relief and Construction Act provide?
shantytowns where hoboes live
Hoovervilles
Black Tuesday
What is October 29, 1929, known as and what happened on that day?
China
What attack drove UN troops across the 38th parallel?
Divide Germany among the 4 allied powers
What did leaders agree to at Yalta?
Choose their own form of Gov through democratic means
What is the declaration of a liberated Europe?
Chinese Nationalists
Who did the US government give $2 billion too?
Pledge to fight Communist
What did the Truman Doctrine do?
North Korean troops invaded the south
What started the Korean War?
Internal Security Act
What is the McCarren Act also called?
Passing atomic secrets to the Soviets
What were the Rosenberg's were charged with?
Too dangerous
What is the criticism of brinkmanship?
Blockading West Berlin , or France
Who occupied the different zones in Germany?
Hydrogen Bomb
What was the Communist invasion of S Korea a test of?
Producers blacklisted anyone who was believed to be a Communist
What effect did the HUAC hearings have on Hollywood?
help Western Europe recover from WWI
Purpose of the Marshall Plan
Publicly criticized the president's policy of limited war
Why was General MacArthur fired?
Truman Doctrine
What policy was established by Truman to fight the spread of communism?
The titles of dance tunes
Where did Cold War themes are in popular culture?
They created fallput shelters in backyards
How did American's deal with nuclear threats?
Right to a lawyer
What was the ruling in Gideon vs. Wainwright?
Land a man on the moon
What was Kennedy's goal in the space race?
Series of cooperative aid projects
What was the Alliance for Progress?
R. Nixon
Republican nominee for president in 1960
New Frontier
Name of Kennedy's legislative agenda?
US and Latin America
Who did the Alliance for Progress help?
To shooth concerns
Why did Kennedy support separation of church and state?
He ordered an end to gender discrimination in the Federal civil service
What did President Kennedy do after the Presidential Commission on the Statis of Women?
Raise the minimum wage
Congress blocked most of Kennedy's legislative again except ______
TV
What about technology was unique in the 1960 election?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Who is the man accused of killing Kennedy?
Deficit spending
What did Kennedy advocate for in order to keep jobs and growth?
Special Olympics
What is Camp Shriver today?
John Gleen
First American to orbit Earth?
Presidential debate
Election 1960 has the first _________
to keep the US involvement a secret
Why did Kennedy cancel air support for the Bay of Pigs?
Organized bus boycotts
What did African Americans do in response to Rosa Parks Arrest?
SNCC
What organization was founded by students?
To make voting rights for African Americans
What was the purpose of the Selma March?
Prohibits any type of discrimiations
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
Licoln Memorial
Where did Dr. King deliver his famous "I have a dream" speech?
Integrate bus terminals
What did the freedom riders do and why?
Almost a year
How long did the Montgomery bis boycott last?
He deployed the National Gaurds
How did the governor of Arkansas prevent the Little Rock 9 from entering their school?
Most African Americans were not registered to vote
Why did Dr. King select Selma?
Nonviolent protest
What was the moral way to end segregation?
People integreating only white resturants
What is a sit-in?
He promised to appoint a Southerner to the Supreme Court
How did Nixon win Southern support in 1968?
He ordered the cover-up
How was Nixon involved in Watergate?
Imported oil
What was the US economy dependent on in the 1970s?
He imposed an embargo on the sale of grain to the Soviets
What did President Carter do as a response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
Revenue-sharing bills
What did Congress pass as a part of New Federalism?
An exchange of scientific info
What are the stipulations of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty?
Old manufacturing plants being used
What caused the decline in US manufacturing?
US to Panama
The Panama Canal was given to ___ by ___
Israel
OPEC placed an embargo on countries supporting ____
Watergate
What is the name of the scandal involving President Nixon?
US would now expect its allies to take care of their own defense
What is the Nixon Doctrine?
New Federalism
Dismantling federal programs was about of Nixon's ____
A diplomatic meeting
Summit
The watergate scandal
Why was Nixon's Vice President forced to resign?
Foregin Oil
What was serious problem for President Carter?
Pres. Ford meeting with the leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Explain "Helsinki Accords"
Federal Campaign Act Amendements
What limits on executive power were developed after Watergate?
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