APUSH 7 Flashcards
African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality.
Booker T Washington
Progressive author and founder of the NAACP who thought that blacks would be best served by the “talented 10th” and receive government aid to gain equality.
WEB DuBois
(1883) Frederick Taylor’s introduction of this practice helped industrial engineers to produce more efficient factories.
Scientific Management
1911 death of 145 people, mostly young immigrant girl, burned or crushed to death by leaping out of windows etc. Resulted in stronger building codes.
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Upheld a law limiting women’s workday to 10 hours based on the need to protect women’s health for motherhood.
Muller v. Oregon
Protective tariff that was passed to ease the Panic of 1893—It had an amendment on it that created a graduated income tax.
Wilson-Gorman Tariff 1894
This act created a commission, the ICC, to check and regulate RR abuses- rates, rebates, discrimination, and required annual reports and financial statement.
Interstate Commerce Act 1887
Voluntary rationing of food stuffs during WWI named after Herbert Hoover the head of the Food Administration
Hooverizing
The principle of strong self-reliance in Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier thesis and used as a theme to the Harding election campaign of 1920.
Rugged Individualism
The unlawful leasing of public oil fields to private business during the Harding administration.
Teapot Dome Scandal
The US propaganda office to help convince Americans to support the US entry into WWI. Also known as the Creel Committee and lead by George Creel
Committee on Public Information
Founder of UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) and the Motherland Africa movement in the 1920’s. He was jailed for fraud
Marcus Garvey
Alienated authors disillusioned with the 1920—conformity and culture including Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Gertrude Stein.
Lost Generation
African American art, music and literature that flourished in the 1920’s in New York City.
Harlem Renaissance
Migration of over 400,000 African Americans from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North during and after WWI
Great Migration
WWI Industrial Workers of the World. A “revolutionary” leftist labor union opposed to the U.S. entry into WWI and the use of the Selective Services Act known as the draft.
Wobblies
An organization of states proposed by Woodrow Wilson in 1919 that would provide “collective security” against war. The 14th Point of Wilson’s Fourteen Points. The US ultimately did not join the international peacekeeping organization and reverted back to isolationism.
League Of Nations
In 1919 President Woodrow Wilson proposed this plan to the Allied Powers to avoid future wars. It created a no blame resolution to The Great War as compared to the Versailles Treaty which blamed Germany for the war and was responsible for reparations.
Fourteen Points
A term for anticommunist hysteria that swept through the US after WW and the fall of the Russian TzarI. Lead to the Palmer Raids and the suppression of civil liberties.
Red Scare
Illegal, yet popular, bars that sold liquor during Prohibition in the 1920’s. Usually frequented by the young woman of the 1920s who defied convention by wearing short skirts and makeup, dancing to jazz and flaunting a liberal lifestyle.
Speakeasies/ Flappers
The ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol with the 18th Amendment in 1920. Enforced by the Volstead Act which defined what “hard liquor” was. Prohibition repealed in 1933
Prohibition
A high tariff enacted in the 1930s during the Great Depression. A way to generate money for the government during the depression from other countries through trade.
Smoot Hawley Tariff
A series of dust storms from 1930-1941 along with a drought that affected Oklahoma, Texas, NM, Colorado, AK, KS.
Dust Bowl
The first executive driven relief and recovery actions taken by FDR during the Great Depression after his inauguration in 1933. Many of the actions promoted by FDRs Fireside Chats
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