History Exam 2

Progressive Party’s candidate for president

a reform-minded Republican who ascended to the presidency after the death of William McKinley

antitrust legislation and regulations, arguing that the courts could not be relied on to break up the trusts

Hepburn Act, allowing the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate best practices and set reasonable rates for the railroads.

seven years in office

Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman's rights and suffrage movements

President. False optimism about depression. Entered in a popular wave of the party and ended in economic collapse 

Sought the means to make the world a better place

Believed well-educated women of means, such as herself, lacked practical strategies for engaging everyday reform

founded Hull House

petitioned legislators to pass anti sweatshop legislation

refused to embrace more radical policies

first woman to give a nominating speech at a major party convention

Vied for leadership among African American activists

Washington was both praised as a race leader and pilloried as an accommodationist to America’s unjust racial hierarchy

died in 1915

Social gospel

pastorate of a German Baptist church in the Hell’s Kitchen section of New York City

a new theological framework had to reflect his interest in society and its problems

what they could do to enact the kingdom of God on Earth

Vied for leadership among African American activists

Free person of color

combined incisive historical analysis with engaging literary drama to validate Black personhood and attack the inhumanity of white supremacy

Oil barons

Funded the evangelist A. C. Dixon to commission some ninety essays to combat religious liberalism

The Fundamentals

Believed she worked God’s will, won headlines for destroying saloons

Was radical

Prohibitionist

A naturalist, a writer, and founder of the Sierra Club

“everybody needs beauty as well as bread.”

on the side of the preservationists, advocated setting aside pristine lands for their aesthetic and spiritual value

Started as an NY governor. Won in a landslide with the new deal plan.

did not indulge anti-immigrant sentiment

proposed jobs programs, public work projects, higher wages, shorter hours, old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, farm subsidies, banking regulations, and lower tariffs

Hardings VP later taking his spot when he died

remove the stain of scandal but otherwise continued Harding’s economic approach

“active inactivity,”

not afraid of supporting business interests and wealthy Americans by lowering taxes or maintaining high tariff rates.

decided not to seek a second term

Democratic governor of New York, Al Smith, whose Catholic faith and immigrant background aroused nativist suspicions and whose connections to Tammany Hall and anti-Prohibition politics offended reformers

Ran against Herbert hoover

much of the election centered on Smith’s religion and his opposition to Prohibition

Published In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?

Social gospel 

believed that every Christian, whether they were a businessperson, a politician, or a stay-at-home parent, should ask themselves what they could do to enact the kingdom of God on Earth

President during WW1

build the Navy as “incomparably, the greatest . . . in the world.”

mobilize over one hundred thousand National Guardsmen across the country as a show of force in northern Mexico.

believed an imminent German victory would drastically and dangerously alter the balance of power in Europe

Selective Service Act

Conquered the sky

concluded the first ever nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris

Supported women's suffrage

Democratic nominee

1923 epic The Ten Commandments depicted orgiastic revelry, for instance, while still managing to celebrate a biblical story.

Several officials conspired to lease government land in Wyoming to oil companies in exchange for cash. Known as the Teapot Dome scandal

Fire in a factory, the doors were locked, the workers were trapped inside

Journalists who exposed business practices, poverty, and corruption—labeled by Theodore Roosevelt as “muckrakers”—aroused public demands for reform

Journal article by Jacob Riis that talked about the terrible conditions in the slums

The first UN. It failed. After WW1

Center of this early consumer revolution. dry-goods houses blossomed into modern retail department stores.

Republican white house. The new women. Rebirth of the KKK.

Franklin D. Roosevelt. never achieved as much as its proponents hoped. Immigration and Naturalization Service halted. If the economy could not put people back to work, the New Deal would try. Helped the south

Created National Recovery Administration. Suspended antitrust laws to allow businesses to establish “codes” that would coordinate prices, regulate production levels, and establish conditions of employment to curtail “cutthroat competition.” In exchange for these exemptions, businesses agreed to provide reasonable wages and hours, end child labor, and allow workers the right to unionize.

In a time where Liberal theologians sought to intertwine religion with science and secular culture.

Contributors agreed that Christian faith rested on literal truths, that Jesus, for instance, would physically return to earth at the end of time to redeem the righteous and damn the wicked.

Ninety essays to combat religious liberalism.

The novel told the story of Henry Maxwell, a pastor in a small Midwestern town one day confronted by an unemployed migrant who criticized his congregation’s lack of concern for the poor and downtrodden. Moved by the man’s plight, Maxwell preached a series of sermons in which he asked his congregation: “Would it not be true, think you, that if every Christian in America did as Jesus would do, society itself, the business world, yes, the very political system under which our commercial and government activity is carried on, would be so changed that human suffering would be reduced to a minimum?” Sheldon’s novel became a best seller, not only because of its story but because the book’s plot connected with a new movement transforming American religion: the social gospel.

Decision that legalized segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine

Germany, Austro-Hungary, and Italy

Great Britain, France, and Russia became known as the Triple Entente and later the U.S.

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie but also the desire for more land.

Woodrow Wilson's campaign message which he would break soon after gaining the office.

Intercepted telegram that tried to get Japan and Mexico to attack the U.S. This led to us entering WWI

Joseph McCarthy sparked a lot of it.

Black southerners went northward. African Americans now pushed harder for civil rights

Encouraged Christians to build the Kingdom of God on earth by working against social and economic inequality, and was very much tied to liberal theology.

Ten billion dollars in investments lost. Start of the depression. 

Stock market crash. Runs on the bank. High poverty and unemployment. Economic crisis. Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the new deal.

Provided for their neighbors by running a nursery and a kindergarten, administering classes for parents and clubs for children, and organizing social and cultural events for the community. surveyed their community and produced statistics on poverty, disease, and living conditions.

“The chief business of the American people,” the new president stated, “is business.”

Women's right to vote

Sherman Anit-Trust Act passes - July 2, 1890

October Stock Market Crash - October 19, 1987

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - March 25, 1911

The United States enters World War I - April 6, 1917

First non-stop flight across the Atlantic - June 14-15, 1919

Nineteenth Amendment ratified - August 18, 1920

Emergency Immigration Act passes - May 19, 1921

The Tulsa Race Massacre - June 1, 1921

Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President - August 2, 1923

Herbert Hoover defeats Al Smith - November 6, 1928

Reconstruction Finance Corporation formed - January 22, 1932

The Social Security Act passes - August 14, 1935

Sherman, ‘tober, fire, war;

Flight, 19, China, race;

Coolidge, Hoover,

RFC, SSN

Women’s suffrage, civil rights, and labor lawas

The zimmerman telegram showed that Germany and its allies did not have America's best interests in mind and to help our allies. The lusitania being sunk. The desire for money.

It had a hands off approach which lead the the great stock market crash

Proposed jobs programs, public work projects, higher wages, shorter hours, old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, farm subsidies, banking regulations, and lower tariffs

New Negro Movement. District in New York City. the Culture Capital. While themes varied, the literature frequently explored and countered pervading stereotypes and forms of American racial prejudice.