AP US HISTORY Flashcards

6185650520	War Industries Board	was a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to Coordinate the purchase of war supplies. The organization encouraged companies to use mass production techniques to increase efficiency and urged them to eliminate waste by standardizing products	0
6185652335	Great Migration	was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the Urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970	1
6185653735	Espionage Act 1917	is a United States federal Law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S entry into world war I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was originally found in Title 50 of the U,S code (War) but is now found under Title 18, Crime	2
6185656001	Sedition Act 1918	was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and expression of opinion that cast the government of the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds	3
6185656002	Alvin York	(Person) Was a blacksmith who was drafted into the army during WWI. York was promoted to the rank of sergeant and received the Medal of Honor.	4
6185657638	Armistice	An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.	5
6185657639	Big Four	refer to the leaders of the allied countries who had most input at the peace conference following World War I. Include Woodrow Wilson, the British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, and the french Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau	6
6185659900	League of Nations	An international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. Brought about much international cooperation.	7
6185659901	Article X	the Covenant of the League of Nations is the section calling for assistance to be given to a member that experiences external aggression. It was signed by the major Peacemakers following the First World War, most notably Britain and France.	8
6185663146	Treaty of Versailles	was a document signed between Germany and the Allied Power Following World War I that officially ended that war.	9
6185665663	Henry of Cabot Lodge	was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts. he led the successful congressional opposition to his country's participation in the league of nation following World War I.	10
6185665664	Reservationists	a group of Senators, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, who opposed the treaty of Versailles, to end WWI unless specific changes were included.	11
6185668816	Isolationists/ Irreconcilables	(Isolationists) People who wanted the United States to stay out of World Affairs. (Irreconcilable) Senators opposed to ratification of the Treaty of Versailles on any grounds.	12
6185668817	Return to Normalcy	a return to the way life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding;'s campaign promise in the election of 1920.	13
6185671958	Adkins V Children's Hospital	is a United States Supreme Court opinion that federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of liberty of contract, as protected by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment	14
6185671959	Teapot Dome Scandal	was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G Harding.	15
6185676759	Ohio Gang	was a gang of politicians and industry leaders closely surrounding Warren, G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States of America. Many of these individuals came into Harding;s personal orbit during his tenure as a state level politician in Ohio hence the name	16
6185678685	Dawes Plan	was an attempt in 1924 to solve the World War I reparations problem that Germany had to pay, which had bedeviled international politics following World War I and the Treaty Of Versailles.	17
6185678686	Young Plan	was a program for settling German reparations debts after World War I written in 1929 and formally adopted in 1930.	18
6185681539	Kellogg-Briand Pact	the purpose of Kellogg-Briand Pact was to basically outlaw war. The pact was signed, in August of 1928, by France, Germany and the United States. The pact is named its two authors. Frank B. Kellogg and Aristides briand	19
6185685058	Good Neighbor Policy	was the foreign policy doctrine, adopted by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, designed to improve relations with Latin America	20
6185688691	Calvin Coolidge	(Person) January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923-29). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state.	21
6185688692	Herbert Hoover	(person) A political leader of the twentieth century, who was president from 1929 to 1933. ... He had been president only a few months when the Great Depression began	22
6185690672	Red Scare	The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This "scare" was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution.	23
6185697943	Palmer's Raids	were a series of raids conducted by the United States Department of Justice to capture, arrest and deport suspected radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States.	24
6185700220	Sacco and Vanzetti	On May 31, 1921, Nicola Sacco, a 32-year-old shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a 29-year-old fish peddler, went on trial for murder in Boston. More than a year earlier, on April 15, 1920, a paymaster and a payroll guard had been killed during a payroll heist in Braintree, Massachusetts, near Boston.	25
6185700221	KKK	is a white supremacist organization that was founded in 1866. Throughout its notorious history, factions of the secret fraternal organization have used acts of terrorism—including murder, lynching, arson, rape, and bombing—to oppose the granting of civil rights to African Americans.	26
6185701716	Immigration Quotas	limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census.	27
6185701717	The Noble Experiment	In 1920 congress began what was called "The Noble Experiment". ... It was titled by society as Prohibition. Websters dictionary defines prohibition as: A prohibiting, the forbidding by law of the manufacture or sale of alcoholic liquors.	28
6185703190	Al Capone	was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old.	29
6185703191	John Dewey	(Person) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.	30
6185704388	Scopes Monkey Trial	A statute was passed (Mar., 1925) in Tennessee that prohibited the teaching in public schools of theories contrary to accepted interpretation of the biblical account of human creation.	31
6185704389	Buying on Margin	refers to the initial or down payment made to the broker for the asset being purchased; the collateral for the borrowed funds is the marginable securities in the investor's account.	32
6185706502	Bruce Barton	(Person) was an American author, advertising executive, and politician. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1937 to 1940 as a Republican from New York.	33
6185708807	Charles Lindbergh	(Person) Augustus (1902-1974), an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop.	34
6185724054	Flappers	a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.	35