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A group of reformers who worked to solve problems caused by
the rapid industrial
urban growth of the late 1800s. - ANSWER -
Progressives
Person who favors native-born inhabitants over immigrants. -
ANSWER -Nativists
Agricultural Adjustment Administration: attempted to regulate
agricultural production
through farm subsidies; ruled unconstitutional in 1936; disbanded
after World War II.
- ANSWER -
AAA
A relief, recovery, and reform effort that gave 2.5 million poor
citizens jobs and land.
It brought cheap electric power, low-cost housing, cheap
nitrates, and the
,restoration of eroded soil. - ANSWER -Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA)
A 1935 law, also known as the Wagner Act, that guarantees
workers the right of collective bargaining sets down rules to
protect unions and organizers, and created the National Labor
Relations Board to regulate labor-management relations. -
ANSWER -National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Monitors the stock market and enforces laws regulating the
sale of stocks and
bonds. - ANSWER -Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC)
A series of peace proposals drawn up by President Wilson;
outlined a plan for achieving a just and lasting peace; first 4
points: an end to secret treaties, freedom of the seas, free trade,
and reduced national armies and navies; 5th point: adjustment of
colonial claims with fairness toward colonial peoples; 6th-13th
points: specific suggestions for changing borders and creating
new nations; 14th point: proposed a "general association of
nations" that would protect "gerat and small states alike" (reflected
Wilson's hope for an organizaiton that could peacefully negotiate
solutions to world conflicts); guiding idea behind these points was
selfdetermination - ANSWER -Fourteen Points
,The right of people to choose their own form of government. -
ANSWER -Self
Determination
increased tariffs made it difficult for European nations to conduct
trade in order to pay off war debts; protected US industries from
foreign competition - ANSWER Fordney-McCumber Act
A government legislation that limited the number of immigrants
from Europe which was set at 3% of the nationality currently in the
U.S. It greatly limited the number of immigrants who could move to
the U.S. And it reflected the isolationist and antiforeign feeling in
America as well as the departure from traditional American ideals.
- ANSWER -Emergency Quota Act
The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of
alcohol. - ANSWER
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Prohibition
Meeting held in 1921 and 1922 where world leaders agreed to limit
construction of
warships. - ANSWER -Washington Naval
Conference
, 1922. Treaty that was essentially a reinvention of the Open Door
Policy. All members to allow equal and fair trading rights with
China. Signed by (9) US, Japan,
China, France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and
Portugal. - ANSWER -Nine-Power Treaty
1928 Agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war. -
ANSWER -Kellogg-
Briand
Pact
Period during the 1920s in which African American novelists,
poets, and artists
celebrated their culture. - ANSWER -Harlem
Renaissance
This entire town was destroyed after a woman accused a black man
of raping her. -
ANSWER -
Rosewood
Programs and legislation enacted by Franklin D. Roosevelt
during he Great