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| a system of labor relations that stressed managment's responsibility for employees wellbeing. |
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| Secret leaving to private companies of government oil reserves; Secretary of the Interior. |
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| Ran Harding's treatury department, and reduced wartime tax rates and freed money for private investment |
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| Washington Conference (1921) |
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| Revealed American strategy in the pacific; deter excessive expenditures on arms and build up of Japan naval power |
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| newly devised installment play; which allowed people to purchase expensive goods |
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| a new cultural icon, who represented emancipated womanhood. |
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| the first talkie, Jazz music caputred important aspects of the cuture of the 1920s |
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| star baseball slugger who became a national celebrity |
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| super-patriotism, mid 1890s, during American dispute with Spain over Cuba |
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| battleship that blew up and sank in the Havana harbor, loss 260 seamen--> U.S. beleived Spain was trying to sabotage them |
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| disclaimed any intention by the U.S. to take possession o Cuba |
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| commander of the Pacific fleet; sailed into the Philippines |
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| Anti-Imperialist League (1898) |
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| lacked common touch, many Mugwumps and businessmen; did not want to advance imperialism |
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| aggressive coupling of American political and economic interests abroad. |
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| Japan agreed to restrict immigration to the U.S.; but racism created tensions |
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| confirmed the status quo of the U.S. in the Pacific |
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| philosophy of combining American states, closer ties with North America |
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| American historian; created the fronteir theis, moving west shaped democracy |
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| ardent patriot; leader of the Philippino resitance, wanted to try to defeat the Spanish |
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| wanted a canal as an easier route to Asia |
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| "preventative" intervention; Britain violated the Monroe doctrine, fix before becomes a problem--> Panama Canal |
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| wanted to counsel Mexico for it's own good; U.S. began a war but backed off; new constitution |
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| signed by the United States and Great Britain, a preliminary to the creation of the panama canal |
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| northern general; stir up trouble on the border; Wilson sent after him; Mexican public asked him to back off |
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| alliance between German, Austria-Hungary and Italy, prepared for inevitable confliced; sparked by the Balkans |
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| the power of the state to enforce social values; no drinking- Prohibition |
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| alliance of Britain, Russia, and France once they reached an understanding |
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| Roosevelt's internation conference in January 1906; defused the Crisis; diplomatic triumph |
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| "the sybol of liberty and promised land for Negros" embodied African struggle to find a way |
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| Britain, France, Russia --> 1917 U.S. joined; U.S. declared war on Germany |
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| Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary; Bulgeria; Ottoman Empire, faught against the Allied Powers and lost |
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| British and Frensh battled against the German; their location; incredibly dangerous |
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| Giant of American industry; wanted no war |
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| led UNIA, based in Harlem, urged blacks to return to Africa; charismatic leader |
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| voted against the action of going to war with Germany; first woman elected to Congress |
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| General of U.S. army force; figured out how to help allies in the war |
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| headed by Pershing- American Expeditionary force; trained and outfitted and transported troops across submarine infested Atlantic |
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| Fighting in trenches; ruthless; incredibly dangerous |
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| communist revolution in Russia in 1917; sought peace with Central Powers |
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| 4 million men in uniform; American Expeditionary Force of World War I |
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| Former professional racecar driver; had alot of flying skills; joined eastern airlines; national hero |
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| encouraged public support of the war; federal debts increased |
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| National War Labor board; improved lives of laboring men and women |
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| moving of people of southern farms to industrial heartland; in order to earn more money |
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| a congressional lobbyist for NAWSA; formed NWP; went on strike for women's sufferage |
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| Committee on Public Information (CPI) |
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| formed by Wilson to promote public support of the war- 1917- headed by George Creel; attacked muckrakers |
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| Schneck v United States(1919) |
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| supreme court upheld conviction of Charles Schneck, general secretary of socialist party; mailed pamphets urging draftees to resist induction; violated first amendment |
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| raised taxes to an all-time high; Europe retaliated by adding trade restrictions |
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| article 23; blame Germany--> pay $31 billion, military and land restrictions |
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| will not sign treaty; succeed, U.S. never ratified the Treaty of Versailles |
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| leader of irreconcilables; Republican Senator, demanded Congressional control of declaration of war |
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| any member of the League of Nations is obligatede to participate in any actions by the league |
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| first director of the FBI; built into large crime-fighting agency |
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| were balmed for MA robbery; Italian, athiest, anarchist, dodged draft, unamerican so were sentanced to death |
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| promote consumer protection and eliminate monopolies; Wilson's major act |
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| expanded sales to Europe; founded in 1908; made it possible for everyone to have a car |
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| American aviator; U.S. Air Mail piolet; U.S. army air corps reserve officer |
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| determined resident population to be 106,021,537 people, 15% higher than 1910 census |
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| Anti-forgeiner, catholic, black, jews, pacifists, communists, internationalists...only WASP; had really high numbers until David Stephenson incident |
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| 1924 National Origins Act |
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| 152,000 immigrants, half from North and West Eruope, only 2% of each nationality |
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| American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) |
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| paid Scopes to teach evolution, faught for his trial, used media to convince to stop teaching creationism |
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| Science teacher who taught kids about eveolution when it was illegal, got arrested, lost trial, but won the right to teach evolution |
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| generation that came of age during the WWI; beginning of the Great Depression |
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| carry out a policy, or achieve an end; based on free will; Hoover relied on business community |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) (1932) |
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| crucial role in economic life; federal loans to banks, railroad, finacial institutions, insurance; too cautious; had expanded only 20% by 1932 |
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| a ragtag group of 15,000 unemployed WWI veterans, who were demanding pensions, but got burned down, Hoover's popularity plunged |
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