Unit 7 Significant Slideshow Items

Question 1

What resolved some tensions between US and Japan?

Answer 1

Gentlemen’s Agreement

Question 2

What was Roosevelts foreign policy?

Answer 2

Big stick diplomacy

Question 3

What was Tafts foreign policy?

Answer 3

Dollar diplomacy

Question 4

What did the jones act do?

Answer 4

Gave Philippines full territorial status, bill of rights, male suffrage, ect.

Question 5

Who helped resolve the Tampico Incident?

Answer 5

ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil, Chile)

Question 6

What did the US do in response to European intervention in the Americas?

Answer 6

Added Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

Question 7

What won Teddy Roosevelt the Nobel Peace prize?

Answer 7

Treaty of Portsmouth

Question 8

What policy did John Hay draft to promote free trade?

Answer 8

Open door

Question 9

What was the Great White fleet?

Answer 9

Convoy of US warships to demonstrate Americas growth

Question 10

Revolutionary who challenged new government in Mexico?

Answer 10

Poncho Villa

Question 11

War fought by Russia and Japan in early 1900s?

Answer 11

Russo Japanese war

Question 12

War fought between China and Japan

Answer 12

Sino-Japanese war, showed China’s vulnerability

Question 13

The outbreak of war was sparked by the death of?

Answer 13

Archduke Ferdinand

Question 14

Causes of US involvement

Answer 14

Sinking of Lusitania, Arabic and Sussex

Question 15

Selective service act

Answer 15

Males must register for draft at age 18

Question 16

Sussex pledge

Answer 16

No more sub sinking without warning

Question 17

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 17

Direct threat to US

Question 18

Prevented use of mail system to intervene with war effort

Answer 18

Espionage act

Question 19

Made it illegal to speak out against any aspects of US gov

Answer 19

Sedition act

Question 20

Supreme Court upheld Espionage act in which court case?

Answer 20

Schneck v US

Question 21

Justin Oliver Holmes said what could suspend liberties

Answer 21

Clear and present danger

Question 22

Wilson announced what for peace

Answer 22

Fourteen points

Question 23

US’s reaction to the League of Nations

Answer 23

Cause much controversy

Question 24

Palmer raids

Answer 24

Illegal raids on immigrants

Question 25

Three presidents

Answer 25

Harding, Coolidge, Hoover

Question 26

Kellogg Briand pact

Answer 26

Prohibited war

Question 27

Warren g Harding was elected in 1920 with what promise?

Answer 27

Normalcy

Question 28

Washington disarming conference

Answer 28

Arms reduction and territorial respect

Question 29

Dawes plan

Answer 29

Ease financial crisis in Europe

Question 30

What did communist Bolsheviks form?

Answer 30

Soviet Union

Question 31

Red Scare

Answer 31

Immigrants associated with radicalism

Question 32

The great migration

Answer 32

Mass migration of African Americans to industrial cities

Question 33

Teapot dome scandal

Answer 33

Illegal drilling of oil in Wyoming

Question 34

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 34

Unfair discrimination because they were immigrants and anarchists

Question 35

Who was a major proponent of birth control?

Answer 35

Margaret Sanger

Question 36

Who was the first man to fly across the Atlantic

Answer 36

Charles Lindburgh

Question 37

Iconic dance in 1920s

Answer 37

Charleston

Question 38

Biology teacher associated with evolution

Answer 38

John scopes

Question 39

Which amendment ended prohibition?

Answer 39

21

Question 40

Who made bonus army?

Answer 40

Angry WWI veterans

Question 41

Tariff signed by Hoover that made the depression worse

Answer 41

Hawley-Smoot tariff

Question 42

Title of book by John Steinbeck

Answer 42

Grapes of wrath

Question 43

Nickname for the day the stock market crashed

Answer 43

Black Tuesday

Question 44

Nickname for shanty towns

Answer 44

Hoovervilles

Question 45

Most famous public works project by Hoover

Answer 45

Hoover dam

Question 46

Exact date of stock market crash

Answer 46

October 29, 1929

Question 47

European territories had been _________ for years

Answer 47

"scrambling for territory"

Question 48

"The White Man's Burden"

Answer 48

Burden to spread civilization

Question 49

Jingoism

Answer 49

Extreme nationalism

Question 50

Alfred T Mahan

Answer 50

admiral, aroused govt interest in imperialism and wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History"

Question 51

What was the purchase of Alaska referred to as?

Answer 51

Seward's Folly

Question 52

Help from ________ allowed US to defeat Spain in the Philippines

Answer 52

Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 53

Foraker Act

Answer 53

Limited civilian gov in Puerto Rico

Question 54

MAIN long-term causes of WW1

Answer 54

militarism alliances imperialism nationalism

Question 55

Daylight savings time was established to

Answer 55

conserve energy

Question 56

Cars revolutionized American life both _______ + __________

Answer 56

economically and socially

Question 57

New technology and decreased demand after WW1 created a

Answer 57

crop surplus

Question 58

Buying on margin

Answer 58

Using money you don't have

Question 59

The movie industry grew in the depression BECAUSE

Answer 59

It was a cheap escape from economic woes

Question 60

Public Works Administration

Answer 60

built roads, bridges, etc to create jobs

Question 61

Tennessee Valley Authority

Answer 61

Appalachian Mountains, men built dams to provide flood control + cheap electricity

Question 62

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Answer 62

Payed farmers to limit production

Question 63

Fair Labor Standards Act

Answer 63

min wage, max hours, end child labor

Question 64

Social Security Act

Answer 64

Provides insurance for elders

Question 65

Securities and Exchange Commission

Answer 65

Regulated prices of stocks and bonds

Question 66

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Answer 66

Provided insurance for people's bank deposits

Question 67

"Black Cabinet"

Answer 67

FDR, worked on issues such as Jim Crow Laws

Question 68

The 1934 Indian Reorganization Act repealed the

Answer 68

1887 Dawes Act

Question 69

"3rd term controversy"

Answer 69

FDR ran and won third term

Question 70

"Court-packing" proposal

Answer 70

FDR, make it easier to pass laws but didn't work

Question 71

22nd Amendment

Answer 71

Two term limit

Question 72

New Deal

Answer 72

Increased size and scope of fed govt, more involved in daily life