Period 7 Vocabulary
For this unit: Write down information on each term as you come across it in your reading. Bring your notes and
book with you to class the day we are discussing that chapter. You will have a reading quiz the day the reading
is due.
Chapter 23 Key Terms –
1. imperialism
2. jingoism
3. expansionist
4. Alfred Thayer Mahan
5. William H. Seward
6. Seward’s folly
7. William Randolph Hearst
8. yellow journalism
9. de Lôme letter
10. U.S.S. Maine
11. Teller Amendment
12. George Dewey
13. Theodore Roosevelt
14. Rough Riders
15. Treaty of Paris
16. anti-imperialism
17. Anti-Imperialist League
18. William Howard Taft
19. Dr. Walter Reed
20. Platt Amendment
21. Roosevelt Corollary
22. Treaty of Portsmouth
23. Gentlemen’s Agreement
Chapter 24 Key Terms –
1. muckraker
2. Jacob Riis
3. Lincoln Steffens
4. Ida Tarbell
5. direct primary
6. initiative
7. referendum
8. recall
9. Seventeenth Amendment
10. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
11. gas and water socialism
12. Muller v. Oregon
13. prohibition
14. Anti-Saloon League
15. closed shop
16. Hepburn Act
17. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
18. Meat Inspection Act
19. Pure Food and Drug Act
20. William Howard Taft
21. New Nationalism
22. Woodrow Wilson
23. Progressive party
24. New Freedom
25. Underwood-Simmons Tariff
26. Federal Reserve Act
27. Federal Trade Commission Act
28. Clayton Antitrust Act
29. Federal Farm Loan Act
30. Federal Highways Act
31. Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
32. Adamson Act
Chapter 25 Key Terms 1. de facto
2. Venustiano Carranza
3. Pancho Villa
4. John J. Pershing
5. dollar diplomacy
6. Lusitania
7. William Jennings Bryan
8. Arabic and Sussex pledges
9. preparedness
10. National Defense Act
11. Revenue Act of 1916
12. “peace without victory”
13. Zimmerman telegram
14. Liberty Bonds
15. Food Administration
16. War Industries Board
17. Great Migration
18. Committee on Public Information
19. Espionage Act
20. Sedition Act
21. Eugene V. Debs
22. Schenck v. United States
23. Fourteen Points
24. League of Nations
25. Henry Cabot Lodge
26. war guilt clause
27. irreconcilables
28. reservationists
29. Spanish flu
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Red Scare
32. A. Mitchell Palmer
33. 100 percent Americanism
Chapter 26 Objectives –
1. modernism
2. Sacco and Vanzetti
3. Immigration Act of 1921
4. Immigration Act of 1924
5. Ku Klux Klan
6. Fundamentalism
7. William Jennings Bryan
8. John T. Scopes
9. Clarence Darrow
10. Al Capone
11. Prohibition
12. Eighteenth Amendment
13. speakeasy
14. Main Street
15. H. L. Mencken
16. “Jazz Age”
17. This Side of Paradise
18. flapper
19. Margaret Sanger
20. Nineteenth Amendment
21. Equal Rights Amendment
22. Harlem Renaissance
23. Marcus Garvey
24. Universal Negro Improvement Association
25. National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People
26. W. E. B. Du Bois
27. T. S. Eliot
28. Gertrude Stein
29. Lost Generation
30. F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. Ernest Hemingway
32. southern renaissance
33. Thomas Wolfe
34. William Faulkner
Chapter 27 Key Terms –
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Warren G. Harding
normalcy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Andrew Mellon
Ohio Gang
Teapot Dome
Albert B. Fall
Calvin Coolidge
Robert M. La Follette
Charles A. Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Herbert Hoover
American Plan
yellow-dog contract
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Industrial democracy
Railway Labor Act
Gastonia Strike
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
margin
Hoover blankets
Hoovervilles
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Glass-Steagall Act
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
Emergency Relief and Construction Act
Bonus Expeditionary Force
Farmers’ Holiday Association
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fireside chat
Twenty-First Amendment
Hundred Days
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Federal Art Project
Chapter 28 Key Terms –
welfare capitalism
1. New Deal
2. Twentieth Amendment
3. Frances Perkins
4. brain trust
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National Youth Administration
dust bowl
National Industrial Recovery Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
Okies
Scottsboro Case
Norris v. Alabama
Black Cabinet
John Steinbeck
Eleanor Roosevelt
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American Liberty League
Huey P. Long
Share Our Wealth
Frances E. Townsend
Charles E. Coughlin
Wagner Act
Social Security Act
court-packing plan
Committee for Industrial Organizations
sit-down strike
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merchants of death
Neutrality Acts
cash-and-carry
Ludlow Amendment
America First Committee
Wendell L. Willkie
Winston Churchill
arsenal of democracy
Lend-Lease
Atlantic Charter
Tripartite Pact
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unconditional surrender
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Operation Overlord
D-Day
General Douglas MacArthur
“leapfrogging”
Thomas E. Dewey
Harry S. Truman
Yalta Conference
V-E Day
Manhattan Project
Potsdam Conference
Enola Gay
Chapter 29 Key Terms –
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isolationism
reparation
Washington Armaments Conference
Charles Evans Hughes
Five-Power Naval Treaty
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Good Neighbor Policy
Stimson Doctrine
Cordell Hull
Trade Agreements Act
Francisco Franco
Gerald Nye
Chapter 30 Key Terms –
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Battle of Midway
War Powers Act
War Production Board
Revenue Act of 1942
Office of Price Administration
WAC and WAVES
“Rosie the Riveter”
A. Phillip Randolph
March on Washington Movement
Fair Employment Practices Commission
bracero program
“zoot suit” riots
War Relocation Camps
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