Progressive Era/Movement
A movement, or groups of different reform movements, that took place at the turn of the 20th century until WWI directly caused by industrialization and urbanization. This movement sought to improve life in the industrial age by making moderate political c
Prohibition
Movement that was spurred on by women to get rid of the selling, distribution and consumption of alcohol. WTCU was founded to organize the movement. Showed massive amounts of women being politically active.
Women's suffrage
The progressive movement that sought to help women gain the right to vote. Happened before and during WWI when Woodrow Wilson was President. Famous leaders include Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, and Lucretia Mott. Gained he right to
Preservationists/Conservationits
Conservation a lists wanted to maintain the natural landscape of the U.S. and establish national parks and other reservoirs to do this. Preservationists wanted to preserve historic buildings and other man made structures, not the environment necessarily.
Imperialists/Anti-Imperialists
Imperialist: an advocate of the policy of dominating other nations by acquiring their land or making them economically dependent
Anti-Imperialist: Being oposed to wars of conquest, and expanding the country by taking someone else's land, especially when t
Isolationism
a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations
Spanish-American War
War fought between the US and Spain in Cuba and the Philippines over Cuban independence and American economic opportunites there. It lasted less than 3 months and resulted in Cuba's independence as well as the US annexing Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philip
Woodrow Wilson
28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points
World War 1
America was being isolationist, but we shifted away from this during Spanish-American War and then WWI. US joins because of being caught in the economic crossfire, Zimmerman Telegram, and Sinking of the Lusitania(German unrestricted Subamarine warfare)--
American Expeditionary Forces
American forces that fought overseas with Britain and France against the British. When Congress declared War on Germany in 1917, the United States did not have the organization necessary for the deployment of the enormous numbers that would be required, s
Treaty of Versailles
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League of Nations
an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. Though first proposed by President Woodrow Wilson as part of his Fourteen Points plan for an eq
Great Migration
The movement of African Americans from the South to the industrial centers of the Northeast and the Midwest. Causes for migration included decreasing cotton prices, the lack of immigrant workers in the North, increased manufacturing as a result of the war
Harlem Renaissance
the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and schola
Red Scare
a period of general fear of communists
Immigration quotas/restrictions
Purpose was to limits the amount of immigrants coming into the US, part of the reason for this was Nativist ideas especially against the Japanese during WWII after attacks
Great Depression
economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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New Deal
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World War II
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Pearl Harbor
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Racism/Totalitarianism, the Holocaust, Nazi concentration camps, Japanese wartime atrocities
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Japanese American Internment
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D-Day invasion
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Island-hopping
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Atomic bombs
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