Q Greatly Improved Productivity of Americans

Assembly Line

 Greatly improved productivity of Americans

 Used by Henry Ford making automobiles

 Cars were made faster and cheaper

Progressives

 Wanted to reform America

 Pushed for the recall, referendum, and initiative

Roaring Twenties

 Term for the 1920’s

 Associated with – automobiles, the Jazz Age, the Harlem Renaissance, the Age of Radio

Red Scare (Hysteria)

 Fear of Communism

 Distrust of Foreigners

 Example – the case of Sacco and Vanzetti

Black Tuesday

 October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed

 Caused by Margin buying

 Bull market – stocks go up

 Bear market – stocks go down

Sacco and Vanzetti

 Two Italians (foreigners) convicted and executed for a robbery

 NOT convicted because of evidence, but because they were foreigners and distrusted

Dust Bowl

 Part of the Great Depression

 Over-farming and drought caused the farm soil of the mid-west to “blow away”

 These farmers moved West, looking for jobs

Great Depression

 The 1930’s  Black Tuesday  Dust bowl

Herbert Hoover

 President at beginning of the Depression  Did little to stop the Depression  Hoovervilles – homeless shanty towns named after him

New Deal

 Franklin Roosevelt’s plan to end the Great depression  Examples – TVA, FDIC, Social Security Act, WPA

 Tennessee Valley Authority  New Deal Program  Provide power (electricity) to the South

Axis Powers

 Enemies of USA during World War II  Germany – Adolf Hitler  Italy – Mussolini  Japan – Emperor Hirohito

Allies

 Allies of USA in World War II  USSR (Soviet Union) – Stalin  USA – Franklin Roosevelt  England – Winston Churchill

Start of World War II

 For Europe – Hitler invaded Poland  For America – Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Appeasement

 Policy of giving Hitler what he wanted to try and avoid war

Blitzkrieg

 German Lightning war of World War II

 Allied invasion of Europe  Allies invade Normandy  Heaviest American losses – fighting at Omaha beach

Holocaust

 Hitler’s attempt to kill all the Jews (Genocide)  Concentration camps  Star of David  The Final Solution

Hiroshima

 Japanese city where atomic bomb was dropped  USA dropped bomb to convince Japan to surrender  Ended World War II

Rosie the Riveter

 Represented women who worked in factories during World War II  Women built the planes, and weapons the men needed to fight the war

Harlem Renaissance

 Rebirth of African American art and literature during the 1920’s  Example – Langston Hughes

Yorktown

 End of the Revolutionary War  British, under Cornwallis, surrendered there

Checks and Balances

 Federalists number 10  President can veto laws  Congress can impeach the President  Supreme Court can rule Laws unconstitutional

Sojourner Truth

 Former slave  Fought for abolition (end slavery) and women’s rights  Famous speech – “Ain’t I a women?”

Archduke Francis Ferdinand

 His assassination starts World War I

4th Amendment

 No unlawful search and seizure

5th Amendment

 Right to remain silent

Renaissance

 Rebirth  Arts and Sciences  Desire (enthusiasm) to learn  Renewed interest in the cultures of ancient Rome and Greece  Examples – Prince Henry’s school of Navigation, the Astrolabe, improved maps

George Washington Carver

 Scientist/researcher at Tuskegee Institute  Developed numerous uses and application for the peanut

Bleeding Kansas

 Pro-Slavery and anti-slavery forced killed each other in Kansas  Popular Sovereignty – the people who lived in Kansas would decide if it was to be free or a slave state