Unit 2 Study Sheet-1302
Describe the following persons:
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
M. L. Mencken
Henry Ford
Williams Jennings Bryan
Theodore Roosevelt
Josiah Strong
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Emilio Aguinaldo
Margaret Sanger
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Alphonse “Al” Capone
Rudolph Valentino
Marcus Garvey
Ernest Hemingway
Aimee Semple McPherson
Nicola Sacco
Charlie Chaplin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
George Herman ‘Babe” Ruth
Charles Lindbergh
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Huey P. Long
Father Charles Edward Coughlin
Francis E. Townsend
Adolf Hitler
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mary McLeod Bethune
Al Smith
Marian Anderson
Describe the following terms:
New Nationalism
Prohibition
Flappers
Immigrants
Neutrality
German Warfare
Lusitania
“The Birth of a Nation”
Zimmerman Telegram
Ku Klux Klan
“New Negro”
Monroe Doctrine
The Great Migration
Bolsheviks
Teller Amendment
“A Splendid Little War” Teapot Dome Scandal
Treaty of Paris 1898
Open Door Policy
“Smoked Yankees”
Stock Market Crash of 1929
sphere of influence
“ The Jungle”
Harlem Renaissance
Northern Securities Case
Muckrackers
Platt Amendment
16th Amendment
TR’s conservation efforts “dollar diplomacy”
17th Amendment
Trusts
Oligopoly
18th Amendment
“Nativism”
Scopes Trial
19th Amendment
Women’s suffrage movement Prohibition
The Federal Reserve Act
Scientific management
Red Scare
Clayton Antitrust Act
Treaty of Versailles
Payne-Aldrich tariff
Bull Moose Party Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
Black Thursday
The Great Depression
Good Neighbor Policy
Scottsboro Boys
CWA
TVA
Second New Deal
Nazi’s
Amos’n’ Andy
Dust Bowl
20th Amendment
AAA
NIRA
Social Security
“New Deal”
CCC
PWA
FERA
NRA
“The Grapes of Wrath”
Short Essay Questions: Answer the following in complete sentences:
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Why was the US interested in imperialism after 1890?
Who were the Rough Riders?
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
Explain the “Roosevelt Corollary?”
What were Wilson’s “Fourteen Points?”
Long Essay: Please answer each question with a minimum of two paragraphs.
1. Why did the US go to war with Spain? What were the pros and cons of the war?
2. Explain the situation that caused conflict between the US and native Hawaiians?
Hawaii’s annexation?
3. What events led to Filipino-American War?
4. Define Progressivism, outline its characteristics and provide examples of its longterm impact on American Society.5. Discuss America’s involvement in World War I. You must include the League of
Nations, the impact on the US labor industry, etc. in your answer.