HTP 7 1890-1945

This bingo card has a free space and 25 words: Workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory were locked inside their workrooms while a deadly fire spread throughout the factory. Resulted in many workers jumping from nine story high windows., A wave of the fear of Communism that resulted in increased immigration after WW1, especially Russian immigrants from the Russian Revolution., U.S.’s “Splendid Little War.” Resulted in the U.S. getting Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. The U.S. has NEVER had control of Cuba., Telegram sent by Germany asking Mexico to help them in World War 1 by attacking the U.S. Stated that Germany would provide them weapons. This telegram was intercepted and pushed the U.S. to become involved in WW1., A result of Germany’s policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. Was another cause of the U.S. becoming involved in WW1 as there were more than 100 Americans on board the Lusitania., The female icon of the 1920’s. Bobbed hair, short skirts, and a party lifestyle encaptured the spirit of the Roaring 20’s. ONLY seen in cities, not in rural areas., Caused by the Hawley-Smoot Tariff which increased tariffs to such an extent that foreign banks started failing. Irresponsible bank practices and investments resulted in banks not being able to service withdrawals of money -> bank failure -> Amer, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan to end the Great Depression through Relief, Recovery, and Reform, Resulted from the common knowledge that laborers were very mistreated during the preceding Gilded Age. Progressive reforms included giving more power to laborers and labor unions as well as protecting consumers and regulating Big Business., Fought for better working conditions like better wages and shorter working hours., Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy. Stated that the U.S. should wield a “Big Stick” in foreign affairs to get what they want. Also known as: threaten to use the military if they did not get what they wanted., spread propaganda during WW1 in order to convince Americans of the need to be involved in WW1. First instance of a President using propaganda to sway public opinion., Mistreatment in the South like lynching and Jim Crow laws pushed African Americans North. There, they still encountered racism. Important in that African Americans took up jobs left behind by men who left for war., Advocated for Garveyism, which was the belief that African American freedom in the U.S. was impossible, so African Americans should just go back to Africa instead., African cultural revival centered in Harlem., During the 1920’s, immigration quotas were set in order to limit the amount of immigrants let into the country., Female icon during WW2 who convinced women to take up jobs left behind by men who went to war. Allowed the U.S. to operate at full capacity during the war., Secret government project that researched and created the atomic bomb that would eventually be used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima to end WW2 with Japan., Benefits offered to war veterans such as reduced mortgages and free education, allowing returning soldiers to enter society after war, One of the causes of the Great Depression, greatly increased tariffs which caused sour foreign relations and foreign banks to crash., Due to the Great Depression, the government was not able to give returning soldiers from WW1 their financial benefits. Soldiers marched on the capitol until eventually they were driven out with tear gas., Repealed the 18th Amendment, Prohibition., Upheld an Oregon law limiting the workday for female wage earners to 10 hours which limited the economic mobility of women during the 1900s as they couldn’t earn as much money as they were able to., Taft’s foreign policy to ensure the economic stability of a region while protecting and extending U.S. commercial and financial interests there. and Wilson allowed all countries in Latin America to choose their own form of government, however, he would only allow them to be democratic, which undermined the promise of self-determination.

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