7.1: Context Flashcards
1
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GROWTH AND REFORM
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- economic expansion through business expansion
- booms and crashes: 20s and Great Depression
- democracy reinforced
- women’s suffrage (19th Amm.)
- direct senatorial election (17th Amm.)
- income tax (16th Amm.)
- prohibition (18th Amm.)
2
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URBANIZATION
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- city pop > rural pop
- monopoly expansion
- new companies and industries
- increased productivity
3
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PROGRESSIVE ERA
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- new regulation momentum
- 1887: Interstate Commerce Act for railroads
- 1890: Sherman Antitrust Act
- reforms to labour
4
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GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL
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- 1929 stock market crash
- 25% unemployment
- Dust Bowl
- Hoover’s neglect
- FDR’s New Deal for relief and recovery
5
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INNOVATION AND MIGRATION
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- telephones and automobiles
- Model T revolution
- 1916: Federal Aid Road Act for highways
- First Great Migration
- Harlem Renaissance
6
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INTERNAL MIGRATION
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- KKK
- lynchings
- segregation
7
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INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
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- immigration backlash post WWI and WWII
- communism fear: 1st and 2nd Red Scare
- 1921 and 1924 Quota Act
8
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WAR AND DIPLOMACY
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- SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
- sinking of USS Maine
- US criticism of Spanish treatment of Cuba
- WWI
- 1917 entry
- chose isolationism at conclusion
- WWII
- Pearl Harbor
- world superpower
9
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AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
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- Hawaii anexxed by McKinley
- Guam, Phillipines, Cuba and Puerto Rico acquired post Spanish-American War
10
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WWI AND ISOLATIONISM
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- US entry over submarine warfare and Zimmerman note
- Wilson leads TOV negotiations
- Republicans reject Treaty and joining LON
- US absence on world stage = slowed recovery for Europe and Hitler to power
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WWII AND GLOBAL LEADERSHIP
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- out of depression due to federal spending and war manufacturing
- prosperity and world power
- women working
- Double V Campaign
- post-war desire for Security: UN and Marshall Plan
