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gave the government the authority to force employers to accept labor unions.
he National Labor Relations Act of 1935
the economy was as bad as during the worst period of the Hoover administration.
During the recession of 1937
social injustice in the rural South and the urban North
Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and Richard Wright's Native Son chronicled
Pullman strike
Eugene Debs played a leading role in what labor event?
boomed for many months.
Following World War I, the American economy
saw men move into jobs traditionally held by professional women
For women, the economic pressures caused by the Great Depression
in 1904 he had promised not to run again.
In 1908, Theodore Roosevelt did not run for another term as president because
greater activism by the federal government.
In 1910, in Osawatomie, Kansas, Theodore Roosevelt announced a set of political principles that called for
the Taft administration implied Roosevelt had acted improperly as president.
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran for president, in part, because
Federal Reserve Act.
In 1913, a major reform of American banking was achieved with the creation of the
passed a graduated income tax.
In 1913, as a result of the Sixteenth Amendment, Congress
Great Britain, France, Russia.
In 1914, the "Triple Entente" consisted of
ending trade with Germany but continuing it with Great Brita
In 1914-1915, the United States responded to a British naval blockade of Germany by
saw five million cars on American roads.
In 1917, automobile production in the United States
a general strike in Seattle that brought the city to a standstill.
In 1919, American labor unrest saw
was a success because of the acceptance of the League of Nations
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson believed the Paris peace conference treaty .
was partly motivated by a series of bombings.
In 1919, the Red Scare in the United States
worsened in both the North and South.
In 1919, the racial climate in the United States
Gave women the right to vote
In 1920, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
raised interest rates
In 1931, the severity of the depression increased when the Federal Reserve Board
was essentially a farmers' strike
In 1932, the Farmers' Holiday Association
spent only part of its public works budget.
In 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
protected the assets of small bank depositors.
In 1933, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
closed all banks.
In 1933, two days after he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt
by wealthy conservatives who strongly opposed the New Deal.
In 1934, the American Liberty League was formed
had a strong record of progressive accomplishments.
In 1935, Senator Huey Long
that he should try to balance the federal budget.
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt decided
his desire to change the ideological balance of the Court.
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's call to expand the Supreme Court came from
the great majority of strikes were settled in favor of the unions.
In 1937, in regards to the organizing of industrial labor,
lost a significant portion of its membership
In 1939, after the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, the American Communist Party
suggested the creation of a league of nations in the post-war period.
In January 1917, President Woodrow Wilson, in a speech before Congress
the czarist government of Russia was overthrown.
In March 1917, the United States moved closer to entering the Great War when
criticized the American obsession with material wealth.
In his 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
should be ended altogether.
In his political program known as "New Freedom," Woodrow Wilson believed trusts
strongly supported a rapid increase of the nation's armed forces.
In mid-1916, President Woodrow Wilson
assisted a revolution in Panama.
In order to secure control of the Panama Canal zone, the United States
decidedly conservative.
In regard to his political ideology, Theodore Roosevelt was in many respects,
felt a mixture of relief and hope.
In response to President Franklin Roosevelt's first days in office, the American people
left the United States
In response to the Great Depression, many Mexican Americans
reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements.
In the 1890s, Jacob Riis
fears that domestic natural resources would soon be in limited supply.
In the 1890s, the interest in American expansion overseas was motivated by
ordered federal arbitration.
In the 1902 strike by the United Mine Workers, President Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson won only a plurality of the popular vote.
In the 1912 presidential election results
a salesman.
In the 1920s bestseller, The Man Nobody Knows, Jesus Christ was portrayed as
mothers should rely on trained experts for advice in raising children.
In the 1920s, "behavioral" psychologists argued
mental ailments could be improved by treating their symptoms.
In the 1920s, "behavioral" psychologists, such as John B. Watson, believed
paternalistic approach used by corporate leaders on their workers.
In the 1920s, "welfare capitalism"was a
the attitude that sexual activity should not be for procreation only.
In the 1920s, a growing interest among middle-class women in birth control resulted from
had a particular impact on lower middle-class and single women.
In the 1920s, the "flapper" lifestyle
to ensure farmers would at least financially break even.
In the 1920s, the idea of agricultural "parity" was
taught that individual initiative could help people to restore themselves financially.
In the 1930s, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People
greatly strengthened by New Deal legislation.
In the 1930s, industrial unionism was
was a product of changing environmental conditions.
In the 1930s, the "Dust Bowl"
grew out of a dispute within the American Federation of Labor.
In the 1930s, the Congress of Industrial Organization
work relief to men and cash assistance to women.
In the 1930s, the New Deal generally gave
grew more militant and powerful.
In the 1930s, the trade union movement
disproportionately benefited the region in funding.
In the American West, New Deal programs
became increasingly sensationalist in its information campaign.
In the United States during World War I, the Committee on Public Information (CPI)
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in
organize industrial production into many simple tasks.
In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to
included a new federal environmental regulatory agency.
In the early twentieth century, efforts to improve environmental problems in American cities
easily won his party nomination and the general election
In the election of 1904, Theodore Roosevelt.
was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him.
In the election of 1908, William Howard Taft
claimed his Republican opponent would lead the nation into war.
In the election of 1916, supporters of Woodrow Wilson
generally lacked the capital to buy land.
In the late nineteenth century, immigrants to urban areas in the United States
saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.
In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States
included the nation's largest businesses
In the late nineteenth century, the railroad industry in the United States
saw its most famous boss, William M. Tweed, sent to prison.
In the late-nineteenth century, New York's Tammany Hall political machine
Theodore Roosevelt ran on a third-party ticket.
In the presidential campaign of 1912,
no worker was required to join a union.
In the workplace, the "open shop" meant
encouraged African Americans to reject assimilation into white society.
Marcus Garvey
changing the banking and currency system.
Much of Father Charles Coughlin's outspoken criticism of the Roosevelt administration revolved around the issue of
was grounded in a commitment to cultural relativism.
New Deal policy toward American Indians
lost all the gains of the previous year.
On October 29, 1929, the American stock market
public parks
One significant innovation of urban America in the late nineteenth century were
was eventually defeated in Congress.
President Franklin Roosevelt's proposal to expand the Supreme Court
urging voluntary cooperation from business leaders.
President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by
to prevent any single nation from being dominant.
President Theodore Roosevelt's policies in regard to Asia were intended
end to secret treaties.
President Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" included an
was debated for four days before it passed.
President Woodrow Wilson's request to Congress for a declaration of war
was largely governed by a monarchy.
Prior to its annexation by the United States in 1898, Hawaii
the French had failed to build a canal at the same site.
Prior to the United States' construction of the Panama Canal,
were directed to imperial powers in Europe and Asia.
The "Open Door notes"
stated that the U.S. had a right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries.
The 1904 "Roosevelt Corollary"
child labor.
The 1916 Keating-Owen Act was the first federal law regulating
a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.
The 1920 census of the United States revealed that
black teenagers accused of rape by two white women.
The 1931 Scottsboro court case saw
was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act
sought to raise crop prices by paying farmers not to plant.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
was strongly influenced by Old World masters.
The American artistic movement known as the "Ashcan School"
put the unemployed to work on rural and wilderness areas
The Civilian Conservation Corps
proposed to balance the federal budget and cut government workers' salaries.
The Economy Act of 1933
established a national minimum wage.
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
new type of paper currency.
The Federal Reserve Actcreated a
determined whether business practices were acceptable to the government.
The Federal Trade Commission Act
established an American colonial government over Puerto Rico.
The Foraker Act of 1900
resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.
The Haymarket Square riot of 1886
the Agricultural Marketing Act.
The Hoover administration addressed the economic situation of American farmers with
labor union in the coal industry.
The Molly Maguires were a militant
entirely banned immigration from east Asia to the United States.
The National Origins Act of 1924
Rural Electrification Administration
The New Deal program which had the broadest effect on the lives of rural Americans was the
resulted in President William H. Taft losing favor with progressives.
The Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909
made illegal any public expression opposing the war.
The Sabotage Act and the Sedition Act of 1918
creationism and evolution.
The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle between
provided federal funds for child health care programs.
The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921
did not begin making payments to participants for years.
The Social Security Act of 1935
Cuba.
The Spanish-American War began primarily because of events in
legislation
The Supreme Court, in two rulings related to the 1916 Keating-Owen Act,
was an experiment in regional planning by the federal government.
The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933
was supported by President Woodrow Wilson.
The United States Selective Service Act
was much larger than previous programs of its kind
The Works Progress Administration of 1935
as likely to be from disease as from combat.
United States's casualties in World War I were
American marines were used to carry out the action
When Hawaii was annexed in 1898
the American public clearly supported its ratification.
When President Woodrow Wilson presented the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate
contended all nations were engaged in a constant struggle to survive.
Arguments used by Social Darwinists in the United States to justify expansionism
the voluntary cooperation of business with government.
As Commerce secretary, Herbert Hoover encouraged
appeared to experience little change
As a result of the Great Depression, the social values in the United States
President Theodore Roosevelt agreed to mediate an end to the conflict.
As a result of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-1905
fundamentalists reduced their participation in political activism.
As a result of the Scopes trial of 1925
activism by blacks for their rights increased.
As a result of the service of African American soldiers in World War I
Germany pledged to the United States it would not repeat such an action.
As a result of the sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania
added extensive areas of land to the national forest system.
As an environmental conservationist, President Theodore Roosevelt
more tightly controlled his executive power than had Theodore Roosevelt.
As president, Woodrow Wilson
Britain and France had few reserves of combat-age men
As the United States entered World War I
the Atlantic Ocean.
As the United States entered World War I, its most immediate military effect was in
grew less willing to increase federal spending.
As the depression deepened, President Herbert Hoover
as being desirable.
At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans viewed leisure time
refused to alter the payment schedule of debts owed by European nations to America.
After 1929, in the face of the worsening global economic crisis, the United States
refused to support a more vigorous public spending program for relief.
After Democrats won control of Congress in the 1930 elections, President Herbert Hoover
began another round of progressive legislation
After the elections of 1914, President Woodrow Wilson
in part, because he failed to carry the South.
Al Smith lost the 1928 presidential election,
had trouble competing for jobs with poor white migrants from the Midwest.
During the Great Depression, Asian Americans
lasted for years and resulted in thousands of American deaths.
Beginning in 1898, the United States's war in the Philippines
refused to make any agreements with the outgoing President Herbert Hoover.
Between his election in 1932 and the inauguration in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt
80 percent.
By 1890, the percentage of the populations of Chicago, New York, and Detroit that were made up of immigrants was approximately
the New Deal had largely come to an end.
By the end of 1938,
one-third of all farmers lost their land
During the Great Depression, in the rural United States
transfers of national oil reserves
During the Harding administration, the Teapot Dome scandal involved .
was less active a president than Warren Harding.
Calvin Coolidge
break from their traditional culture.
Compared with the first generation, second generation immigrants were more likely to
he was largely an invalid.
During the last eighteen months of Woodrow Wilson's presidency
was one of Wilson's closest advisors.
During President Woodrow Wilson's first term, Colonel Edward House
he believed that public opinion alone would eliminate most corporate abuses.
During Theodore Roosevelt's first three years as president
rural southern blacks moving to northern industrial cities.
During World War I, the "Great Migration" in the United States referred to
specific economic sectors
During World War I, the Council of National Defense (CND) organized the national economy by
public bond sales and new taxes.
During World War I, the United States government primarily financed the war through
lasted only a few months but saw heavy American casualties.
During World War I, the United States military role in Europe lasted only a few months but saw heavy American casualties.
coordinated government purchases of military supplies.
During World War I, the War Industries Board (WIB)
put four million people to work.
During its first year, the Civil Works Administration
increased his criticism of corporations.
During the "Second New Deal," President Franklin Roosevelt
genetic research.
During the 1920s, Thomas Morgan was one of the American pioneers in
were largely a source of entertainment
During the 1920s, airplanes
was illegal in many states.
During the 1920s, birth control in the United States
believed workers should be organized on the basis of skills
During the 1920s, the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
opposed the existing diversity of American society.
During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan
a sharp decline in farmer's incomes.
During the 1920s, the agricultural economy of the United States saw
was most pronounced in the large-scale, mass-production sector.
During the 1920s, the trend toward industrial consolidation
generally ran well below the growth of the economy as a whole.
During the 1920s, wages for American workers
offered a greater degree of social commentary than did either radio or movies.
During the 1930s, American literature
sought to organize the rural poor across racial lines
During the 1930s, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Communist Party.
During the 1930s, the most important group within the Popular Front was the
was a new and controversial labor tactic
During the 1930s, the sit-down strike
refused to intervene in the dispute.
During the 1937 sit-down strike of General Motors, the federal government
Germany.
The country that lost the greatest number of lives in World War I was
were similar to Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
The diplomatic efforts by President Woodrow Wilson towards Latin America
voters turn away from international idealism.
The election of 1920 saw
produced a new and enduring coalition of voters for the Democratic Party.
The election of 1936
Pennsylvania.
The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in
was launched in response to a wage cut.
The great railroad strike of 1877
believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society
The late nineteenth century sociologist Lester Frank Ward
Eleanor Roosevelt.
The most influential advocate for African Americans in the Roosevelt Administration was
Marcus Garvey
The most prominent leader of black nationalism following World War I was
to extend investments by the United States in less-developed regions.
The policy idea behind "Dollar Diplomacy" was
stop immigrants from entering the United States.
The primary goal of the American Protective Association was to
included a proposal for the return of the American Southwest to Mexico.
The so-called Zimmerman telegram
promoted the idea that capitalism offered all people a chance for great wealth.
The social theory of Social Darwinism
a significant number of black troops in the American forces.
The story of race and the Spanish-American War saw
saw leaders of business take prominent positions in the federal government.
Throughout the 1920s, the federal government
saw nearly uninterrupted prosperity coupled with severe inequalities.
Throughout the 1920s, the performance of the United States economy
received more sympathy than under most previous administrations.
Under the New Deal, African Americans
