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AMH 2020 Exam 2US overseas empire - correct answer ✔✔Spanish-American War
U.S. failed to grant Cuba independence
U.S. conquered Philippines, Puerto Rico
Panama Canal - correct answer ✔✔Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States.
Created by inciting a civil war and supporting Panamanian independence from Columbia.
Progressive era foreign policy positions - correct answer ✔✔"Speak softly and carry a big stick" -
Roosevelt Corollary.
Force would be used to protect US Interests.
Imperialism, in the Caribbean and Asia.
Causes of WW1 - correct answer ✔✔Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Americanization - correct answer ✔✔Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would
make them more loyal citizens
War Industries Board - correct answer ✔✔Agency established during WWI to increase efficiency &
discourage waste in war-related industries.
Versailles - correct answer ✔✔Where the Versailles Treaty was signed, placed blame for WW1 entirely
on Germany.
Great Migration - correct answer ✔✔movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south
into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
, Red Summer - correct answer ✔✔summer of 1919 brought race riots, began in July when whites
invaded a black section of Longview, Texas and burned shops and houses. It was a lash out against the
growth of blacks in cities
Agricultural Depression - correct answer ✔✔farmers went into debt during WWI trying to buy more land
and equipment during the war, prices of crops drop after war
1920's Republican Presidents - correct answer ✔✔Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
Fundamentalism - correct answer ✔✔Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a
religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect).
Scopes Monkey Trial - correct answer ✔✔1925, the trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of
evolution against teaching Bible creationism
1920s Klan - correct answer ✔✔3 million members by 1925, growing not only in the south but in the
north and west. Hatred "platform" now includes immigrants.
1920s Auto Industry - correct answer ✔✔The 1920s auto industry was the boom of efficiency in car
production, led in large part by the invention of Henry Ford's assembly line.
Democratic Coalition - correct answer ✔✔Roosevelt set up his New Deal in 1933 and forged a coalition
of labor unions, liberals, religious, ethnic and racial minorities (Catholics, Jews and Blacks), Southern
whites, poor people and those on relief.
Stock Market Crash of 1929 - correct answer ✔✔Plunge in stock market prices that marked the
beginning of the Great Depression, among other reasons.
Hoover vs FDR - correct answer ✔✔Hoover did not believe in giving direct aid (laisse fair). FDR gave
direct aid.
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