Us History Midterm Review

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New Nationalism

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Program of progressive reforms proposed by President Theodore Roosevelt; included regulation of business, welfare legislation, and other measures

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Holding company

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A company that controls other companies by holding their stocks

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direct primary

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Elections system in which voters rather than political bosses select nominees for elections

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arbitration

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process of settling disputes in which both sides accept the legally binding decision of an impartial third party

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home rule

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Municipal reforms in the late 1800s and early 1900s that gave cities limited self-rule, rather than state rule

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progressivism

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Political and social reform movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s; included socialism, prohibation, and other reform movements

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New Freedom

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Political patform of Woodrow Wilson in teh 1912 presidential election that criticized big business and big government

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Social Welfare Programs

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Government program that helps ensure a basic standard of living; includes unemployment,accident,and health insurance

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Allies

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The combinations of Russia, France, Great Britain, and later the United States in WWI

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Industrial Worker's of the World

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Radical labor organization of the early 1900s that soought the overthrow of the capitalist system; also known as the Wobblies.

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Reparations

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Payments for economic injury exacted from a defeated army

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American Expeditionary Force

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United states troops in WWI,including draftees,volunteers,and the national guard

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self-determination

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Freedom of a group of people to dtermine their own political status.

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League of Nations

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Organization proposed by President Wodrow Wilson after WWI (UN-United Nations)

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Fourteen Points

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Peace program proposed by President Woodrow Wilson intended to prevent wars like WWI

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Zimmerman Note

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Telegram intercepted from a German official proposing an alliance with Mexico; increased pressure on the United States to enter the war

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Armistice

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Cease-fire during a war ex.the end of WWI (1918)

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Bootlegging

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Supplying liquor illegally during the time of prohibition

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Flapper

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A type of woman who had a straight, slim silhouette, and a fondness for dancing and brash actions.

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Red Scare

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A time in history when everyone was afraid that communism would take over the United States.

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Fundamentalism

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Christian religious movement based on pamphlets issued between 1909 and 1914; holds that every word in the bible was inspired by God

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General Strike

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A strike in which many unions participate in order to show worker unity

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Scopes trial

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Tennessee trial of 1925 that challenged the law against teaching evolution in public schools

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Jazz age

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Term for the 1920s, a period marked by the great popularity of jazz music.

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Harlem Renaissance

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Period in the early 1900s during which the literary, musical, adn artistic expression of African Americans blossomed in Harlem

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Teapot Dome

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Scandel during the administration of President Warren G. Harding involving the lease of public oil reserves to private companies in exchange for illegal payments

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Herber Hoover

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The 31st president of the United States...worked to aid Europeans in WWI but responded ineffectivly to the stock market crash and the great depression.

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Warren G. Harding

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29th President of the United States

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Vladimir I. Lenin

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Revolutionary Leader in Russia, Established a communist government

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Charles Lindbergh

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Aviator who became and international hero when he made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Novelist who depicted the United Statesand the world during the 1920s in books like "The Great Gatsby"

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Calvin Coolidge

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13th President of the United States; Big business supporter and opposed social aid

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Marcus Garvey

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African American leader who urged African Americans to return to the motherland

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A. Mitchell Palmer

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The Attorney General during the time of the Red Scare whom set up antiradical divisions to raid organizations for being suspected of radical behavior

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Two italian immigrants jailed and put to death for the reason of being a part of the teapot dome; was so controvercial because the court case was not fair

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Henry Ford

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Manufacturer from the 1910s through the 1940s made the most affordable cars to the masses; used mass production

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T.S. Eliot

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A poet who wrote "The Waste Land" depicting the struggle of a youth in the 1920s

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internment camps

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a camp in which people are confined or isolated

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wildcat strikes

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A worker's strike not authorized by their union

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Braceros

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spanish term for worker;particularly applied to the thousands of mexican farmhands who migrated to the United States during WWII only to be sent back after the war

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Double V campaign

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Civil rights movement by African Americans during WWII calling victory in the war and equality at home

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Cost-plus system

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System devised during WWII to allow profits from war production, in which the government paid for basic manufacturing costs, plus a percentage profit

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Congress of Racial Equality

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Civil rights organization started in 1942

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Congress of Racial Equality

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Civil rights organization started in 1942

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March on Washington

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Civil rights movement in Washington D.C. led by Dr.Martin Luther King

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March on Washington

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Civil rights movement in Washington D.C. led by Dr.Martin Luther King

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Interim Committee

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Group of US leaders and scientists who studied the question of using the atomic bomb to force Japan's surrender during WWII

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Interim Committee

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Group of US leaders and scientists who studied the question of using the atomic bomb to force Japan's surrender during WWII

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New Deal

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Proposals and programs adopted by President Franklin Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression;included social and economic programs and changes in government regulation

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Political right

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Those who wish to preserve the current social and political system or power structure

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public works program

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Government funded projects to build public facilities;central to President Roosevelt's New Deal job programs

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political left

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Those who wish to change the current social and political system or power structure

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national debt

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Total debt of the National Government

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hundred days

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The first 100 days of the term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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congress of Industrial Organization

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Labor group that split off from the American Federation of Labor in 1938 and organized unskilled steel,auto, and other workers.

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Social Security Act

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Legislation in 1935 that established a social welfare system funded by employee and worker contributions; included old-age pensions,survivor's benefits for victims of industrial accidents, and unemployment insurance

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Wagner Act

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National Labor Relations Act of 1935;legalized union practices such as collective bargining and the closed shoop and outlawed certain antiunion practices such as blacklisting