Social Gospel
a reform movement led by Protestant ministers who used religious doctrine to demand better housing and living conditions for the urban poor
Bright young reporters at the turn of the twentieth century who one this unfavorable moniker from Theodore Roosevelt but boosted the circulations of their magazines by writing exposes of widespread corruption in American society
Muckrakers
A progressive reform procedure allowing voters to place a bill on the ballet for final approval even being passed by the legislature
Referendum
Hailing from Wisconsin, he was the most militant of the progressive Republican leaders. He served in the senate and as the Wisconsin governor
Robert M. (fighting Bob) La Follette
A tireless crusader for women's labor rights, she was Illinois's first chief factory inspector and leader of the national Consumers League, an organization dedicated to improving working conditions for women and children
Florence Kelley
Roosevelt's Square Deal for Labor embraced these three C's...
control for corporations, consumer protection, and conservation for national resources
Laws passed by Congress to impose penalties on railroads that offered rebates and customers who accepted them. The law strengthened the Interstate-Commerce Act of 1906 and added free passed the list of railroad no-no's
Elkins Act
A law passed by Congress to inspect and regulate the labeling of all foods and pharmaceuticals intended for human consumption
Pure Food and Drug Act
A friend of Theodore Roosevelt, he was the head of the federal Division of Forestry and a noted conservationist who wanted to protect, but also use the nation's natural resources such as forests and rivers
Gifford Pinchot
Congress responded to the panic of 1907 with this legislation, authorizing national banks to issue emergency currency back by various kinds of collateral
Aldreech-Veeland Act
Roosevelt's choice as his Republican successor to the presidency in the election of 1908
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft had been a trusted advisor in this two foreign countries before becoming president
Philippines and Cuba
named Applied by Taft's critics to the policy of supporting US investments and political interests abroad
Dollar Diplomacy
During his presidency Taft brought lawsuits against these two businesses fr breaking monopoly laws
Standard Oil and US Steel
While intended to lower tariff rates, this bill was eventually raised beyond all recognition, retaining high rates on most imports
Payne-Aldrich Bill
These three men ran for the Republican bid for Presidency in the election of 1912
Taft, Roosevelt, La Follette
State-Interventionist reform program devised by journalist Herbert Croly and advocated by Theodore Roosevelt during his Bull Moose campaign
New Nationalism
When Wilson became President in 1913 he was the___Democrat to win the White House since 1861
second
The tariff greatly reduced rates and enacted an unprecedented, gradual federal income tax
Underwood Tariff
A law establishing twelve regional banks and a board, appointed by, the president, to regulate banking and creating stability on a national scale in the volatile banking sector
Federal Reserve Act
Law extending the anti-trusts protections of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and exempting labor unions and agricultural organizations from anti monopoly constraints
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
This law established an eight hour day for all employees on trains involved in interstate commerce, with extra pay for overtime
Adamson Act
Law according territorial status to the Philippines and promising independence soon as a "stable government" could be established
Jones Act
An arrest of american sailors by the Mexican government that spurred Woodrow Wilson to dispatch the American navy to seize the port of Veracruz in April 1914
Tampico Incident
Name the central powers in WWI
Germany and Austria-Hungary (later joined by Turkey and Bulgaria)
The British passenger liner that sank after it was torpedoed by Germany on May 7, 1915
Lusitania
The campaign slogan of Woodrow Wilson during his second run for office
He kept us out of war
The secret proposal by German foreign secretary of a German-Mexican alliance against the US. When the message was intercepted and published in March 1917, it caused an uproar that made some Americans more willing to enter the war
Zimmerman note
Wilson inspired Americans to enter the war by stating that America needed to do this
Make the world safe for democracy
Woodrow Wilson's proposal to ensure peace after WWI, calling for an end to secret treaties, widespread arm reduction, national-self determination, and a new league of nations
Fourteen points
The young, outspoken, and tactless journalist who was tapped to head the committee on public information during WWI
George Creel
The head of the Good Administration who advocated voluntary rationing instead of compulsory
Herbert Hoover
The movement of 6 million African Americans from the rural south to the urban north and west in two major waves
Great Migration
Designed to appeal to new women voters, this law provided federally financed instruction in maternal and infant health care and expanded the role of government in family welfare
Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act
Another word for the draft
conscription
General Pershing led American troops in this effort to cut the German railroad lines supplying the western front. One of the new major battles that Americans participated in during the entire war, it was still underway when the war ended
Meuse-Argonne offensive
A prominent Republican senator from Massachusetts, he was the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a persistent thorn in President Wilson's side when he crusaded against the League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
Who was the leader of Great Britain?
David Lloyd George
Who was the leader of France?
Georges Clemenceau
Who was the leader of Italy?
Vittorio Orlando
Led by Senators William Borah of Idaho and Hiram Johnson of California, this was a hard-core group of militant isolationists who opposed the Wilsonian dream of international cooperation in the League of Nations after World War I. Their efforts played an i
Irreconcibles
During the election of 1920, this formerly incarcerated man received the largest vote ever for the left-wing Socialist party
Eugene V. Debs
How do we know that the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles failed?
World War II
Passed by many states during the red scare, these nefarious laws outlawed the mere advocacy of violence to secure social change
Criminal Syndicalism Laws
At its peak in the 1920s, the KKK claimed ___dues-paying members.
5 million
Name of the one the two early-twentieth-century commentators who wrote against the grain of "one hundred percent" Americanism, celebrating ethnic diversity and cultural pluralism
Horace Kallen
A federal enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacturer, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages
Volstead Act
People who obtain money illegally by fraud, bootlegging, gambling, or threats of violence
Rackateers
A Tennessee high school biology teacher who was prosecuted in 1925 for teaching the theory of evolution
John T. Scoped
The treasury Secretary whose tax policies favored the rapid expansion of capital investment
Andrew Mellon
A system of assembly-line manufacturing and mass production named after Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company and developer of the Model T car.
Fordism
This industry was hit hard by the competition of cars, buses, and trucks
Railroad
An american aviator who made history as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic
Charles Lindbergh
One of the few inventions of the era that brought Americans back into the home
Radio
D.W. Griffith's 1915 film that glorified the KKK of Reconstruction days and defamed both blacks and Northern carpetbaggers
Birth of a Nation
A nurse and prominent birth control activist who founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, which eventually became planned parenthood
Margaret Sanger
A creative circle of expatriate American artists and writers, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein, who found shelter and inspiration in post-WWI Europe
Lost Generation
One of the major signals that the economic joyride of the 1920s might crash
Real estate speculation (Florida Boom)
Top gangster AI Capone was finally convicted and sent to prison for the crime of__.
income tax evasion
Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from__.
foreign-born peoples who brought European styles of sociability with them when they emigrated to America.
According to John Dewey, a teachers primary goal is to__.
educate students for the broad range of life's challenges by active, participatory learning methods
The zeal of federal agents in enforcing prohibition laws against liquor smugglers strained US diplomatic relations with__.
the Dominican republic
The most Tenacious pursuer of radical elements during the red scare of the early 1920s was__.
A. Mitchell Palmer
Who wrote the Sun Also Rises?
Ernest Hemingway
Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who wrote Main Street?
Sinclair Lewis
Who wrote the sound and the Fury?
William Faulkner
The long-term outcome of the Spokes "Monkey Trial
represented, at best, a hollow victory for Fundamentalism because it cast ridicule of the fundamentalist cause and highlighted the dubious rationality of a relying on a literal theological reading of the Bible to overturn the findings of modern science
The Scopes "Monkey Trial" represented a tragic, embarrassing, and final political curtain call for prosecution expert__.
William Jennings Bryan
With 5 million members at its peak in the 1920s, the KKK was not known for__.
anti-immagrant
The most spectacular and deadly example of lawlessness and gangsterism in the 1920s was in__.
Chicago
Jazz music was developed by__.
American blacks
Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of__.
birth control
The first talkie motion picture was__.
The Jazz Singer
The post-WWI KKK did not advocate__.
opposition to prohibition
What was not among the prominent African American cultural figures of the 1920s?
Ralph Ellison
Besides controlling the illegal liquor industry, American gangsters in the 1920s earned rich profits from all of the following activities except__.
All choices are correct
The Immigration Act of 1924 discriminated directly againsted__.
southern and eastern Europeans and Japenese
The Harlem Renaissance can be described as__.
a celebration of black culture and creative expression of a prominent and vibrant black community in the north.