Thursday, December 11, 2014

FDR and the New Deal

Literary Digest  
Orsen Wells
Helene Meyer 
Jesse Owens
Amelia Earhart  
CCC
FDIC                                                                                                                                              
1936 Olympics Swastika
Blue Eagle
Hoover and Roosevelt 1932 campaign and lame duck period
The focus of New Deal legislation 
Brain Trust
FDR’s three R’s  
The Wagner Act   
FDR and the Supreme Court                                                                                                                                           
New Deal Majority
Joe Louis
National Recovery Administration
The Wagner Act
Public Works Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Social Security Act
Twenty-first Amendment
Nuremberg Laws
National Recovery Administration
The Great Depression when? Why?  
Federal Deposit Insurance Commission
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
“fireside chats”
Will Rogers  
Scottsboro Boys
Securities and Exchange Commission
Senator Huey Long 
U.S. and Russia during the 1930’s
Hitler’s preparation for war                                                                                            
Munich Pact of 1938
The Neutrality Acts
Winston Churchill
The Hindenburg                                                                                                             
Actions taken by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Versailles Treaty during the 1930s                
American foreign policy during the 1930’s

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Chapter 4 - From Boom to Bust Study Guide


H.L. Mencken
booboisie
flapper
tin lizzie
Harlem Renaissance
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Weimar Republic
speakeasy
Stock Market Crash 5 w’s and the causes
buying on margin
“Black Thursday”
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington
Washington Treaties
“Ohio Gang”
Al Smith
Kellogg -Briand Pact Washington Naval Conference
Margaret Sanger
Charles Lindbergh
Planned Parenthood
Scopes Trial
Eugene V. Debs
Clarence Darrow
“Bonus March of 1932” and the (BEF)? Calvin Coolidge Warren Harding Herbert Hoover isolationism
Groups facing prejudice during the 1920’s immigrants. Hawley-Smoot tariff.
Describing their role in the 1920’s. including what they did, what difference they made, any lesson we can learn from them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charles Lindbergh
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Al Smith
Henry Ford
Langston Hughes

Friday, October 10, 2014

Chapter 3 The Great War

Kaiser Wilhelm II
Schlieffen Plan(describe)
Assassination of Archduke
The U.S.A. stays out of the war, why?
Colonel Edward House
Joseph Tumulty
Louis Brandeis
William Jennings Bryan
Unrestricted Sub Warfare
Zimmermann Telegram
 “No man’s land
Georges Clemenceau
Jeanette Rankin
Date U.S. entered the War
Wilson’s reason for war?
General Pershing
Eddie Rickenbacker
Pancho Villa
Sergeant Alvin York
Vladimir Lenin
U.S.S.R
Fourteen Points
Self Determination
General John J. Pershing
Influenza
AEF
(Terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge   
"War Guilt” Clause
Wilson’s strategy for
treaty  ratification
Warren Harding
“Article X”
“Irreconcilables”
“Reservationists”
Reparations
Why did the U.S. not Ratify the treaty?
Lloyd George

Friday, September 19, 2014

Study Guide Chapter 2 The American Dynamo

Franz Ferdinand                                                                                                                                   

Archie Butt                                                                

Emilio Aguinaldo                                                           

Philippe Bunau Varilla                                                     

John Mitchell                                                              

Gifford Pinchot                                                           

Gavrilo Princip                                                                     

J P Morgan                                                                         

William Jennings Bryan                                                  

W. E. B. Du Bois                                                                            

 “Rough Riders”                                                                              

San Juan Hill                                                                        

The “Buffalo Soldiers”                                                       

 How the Other Half Lives

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

Pure Food and Drug Act

Reforms the Progressives supported

The Federal Reserve Act

The Spanish-American War

Positions held by Teddy Roosevelt before he became President 

“Yellow Press”

Cause of Spanish American War

the USS Maine

Area of U.S control Following the Spanish-American War

Hawaiian Islands

Philippines insurrection

“Open Door Policy”                                              

The “Boxer Rebellion”                                             


“Huns”


Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington


Goal of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People


The Wright Brothers                                                        


The election of 1912 candidates-issues-outcome


cause of World War I


The Clayton Anti-Trust

major results of the Spanish-American War                                                                 

philosophy of Booker T. Washington?   

Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” policies?                                                                  

Titanic                                                                     

William Howard Taft.                                                         

Monday, August 11, 2014

Chapter 1 An Age More Golden than Gilded

Identify these key terms people or events
“standard time zones”  
“Robber Baron”                                          
mugwumps
stalwarts
scalawags
carpetbaggers
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 
Joseph Pulitzer 
Thomas Edison 
Pulitzer said He is an honest man 
Grover Cleveland
James G. Blaine
Rutherford B. Hayes
Populist movement or Grange
William H. Vanderbilt 
J.P. Morgan 
Andrew Carnegie 
John D. Rockefeller 
Engineers John and Washington Roebling were  famous for
Discovered in the Black Hills in Dakota Territory    
Helen Hunt Jackson 
Dawes Act
Wounded Knee 
America’s first “conservationists.” 
Jane Addams 
Republicans supported high tariffs because  
Sherman Silver Purchase Act 
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
McKinley Tariff of 1890
Populist Party appealed to? 
Cyrus McCormick 
“Exodusters” 
Goal of “civil service reform” was:
“social gospel” 
Homestead Strike                                                        
Pullman Strike