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APUSH Period 7: 1890-1945 Part 2
This deck covers key events, policies, and figures from the APUSH Period 7, focusing on the years 1890-1945. It includes important concepts such as the Ballinger-Pinchot Affair, Dollar Diplomacy, and the Manhattan Project.
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
a dispute between U.S. Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger that contributed to the split of the Republican Party before the 1912 Presidential Election and helped to define the U.S. conservation movement in the early 20th century.
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Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
a dispute between U.S. Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger that contributed to the spli...
Dollar Diplomacy
Foreign policy created under President Taft that had the U.S. exchanging financial support ($) for the right to 'help' countries make decisions about ...
Federal Reserve Act
Set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to control the money supply, 1913
Louis Brandeis
A lawyer and jurist, he created the 'Brandeis Brief,' which succinctly outlines the facts of the case and cites legal precedents, in order to persuade...
Espionage Act
1917 act gave the government new ways to combat spying
Sedition Act
Made it a crime to criticize the government or government officials. Opponents claimed that it violated citizens' rights to freedom of speech and free...
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair | a dispute between U.S. Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger that contributed to the split of the Republican Party before the 1912 Presidential Election and helped to define the U.S. conservation movement in the early 20th century. |
Dollar Diplomacy | Foreign policy created under President Taft that had the U.S. exchanging financial support ($) for the right to 'help' countries make decisions about trade and other commercial ventures. Basically it was exchanging money for political influence in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
Federal Reserve Act | Set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to control the money supply, 1913 |
Louis Brandeis | A lawyer and jurist, he created the 'Brandeis Brief,' which succinctly outlines the facts of the case and cites legal precedents, in order to persuade the judge to make a certain ruling. |
Espionage Act | 1917 act gave the government new ways to combat spying |
Sedition Act | Made it a crime to criticize the government or government officials. Opponents claimed that it violated citizens' rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the press, guaranteed by the First amendment. |
Fourteen Points | Wilson's plan for peace following WWI. |
League of Nations | an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations |
Eddie Rickenbacker | Famous American fighter pilot |
Normalcy | A return to 'normal' life after the war. |
Sacco and Vanzetti | 'victims' of nativism and 'Americanism' |
Scopes Trial | 1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools |
The Lost generation | Post war writers that left a sense of dislocation and alienation. They felt the real America had been lost or distorted. |
flappers | Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion |
Hawley Smoot Tarrif | raised prices on foreign imports to such a level that they could not compete in the American market, slowed down trade |
Pump priming | Government action taken to stimulate the economy, as spending money in the commercial sector, cutting taxes, or reducing interest rates |
Relief, recover, reform | three goals of new deal |
CCC | Civilian Conservation Corps. It was Relief that provided work for young men 18-25 years old in food control, planting, flood work, etc. |
WPA | Work Progress Administration: Massive work relief program funded projects ranging from construction to acting; disbanded by FDR during WWII |
Social Security Act | 1935, guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health |
Wagner Act | 1935, also National Labor Relations Act; granted rights to unions; allowed collective bargaining |
Dust Bowl | 1930; Central region, the term for the Great Plains when there was little rain and there were great storms of dust. |
Neutrality Acts | 4 laws passed in the late 1930s that were designed to keep the US out of international incidents |
Appeasement | A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war. |
America First Committee | A committee organized by isolationists in 1940 to oppose American entry into World War II |
Atlantic Charter | 1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII amd to work for peace after the war |
Manhattan Project | The name of the top secret program that developed the atomic bomb. |