Key Terms and People: The to WWI (unit 7) Study online at quizlet.com/_2201t3

1. Assembly Line: 4. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC):

In a factory, an arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product. Created and perfected by Henry Ford planted trees and created National Parks 2. Big Stick policy: 5. Credit:

Roosevelt's philosophy - In international affairs, ask first but An agreement in which a buyer is allowed to pay over a period bring along a big army to help convince them. Threaten to use of time, usually with interest or fees added force, act as international policemen 6. Dust Bowl: 3. Black Tuesday:

Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or American history and beginning of the Great Depression. substantial wages. 7. Electricity: 10. Great Depression:

(1929-1939) The dramatic decline in the world's economy due to the United State's stock market crash of 1929, the overproduction of goods from World War I, and decline in the A form of energy used in telegraphy from the 1840s on and for need for raw materials from non industrialized nations. Results lighting, industrial motors, and railroads beginning in the 1880s. in millions of people losing their jobs as banks and businesses 8. Franklin D. Roosevelt: closed around the world. Many people were reduced to homelessness, and had to rely on government sponsored soup kitchens to eat. World trade also declined as many countries imposed protective tariffs in an attempt to restore their economies. 11. Hepburn Act:

President of the United States during the Great Depression and World War II, Responsible for the "New Deal" and America entering WWII in 1941 9. GNP:

This 1906 law used the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the maximum charge that railroads to place on shipping goods. 12. Herbert Hoover:

Gross National Product - the sum of all goods and services produced in a nation in a year

President of the United States at the beginning of the Great Depression, blamed by some for the depression 13. Hoovervilles: 16. New Deal:

Shanty towns that the unemployed built in the cities during the early years of the Depression; the name given to them shows that the people blamed Hoover directly for the Depression. 14. Income Tax: A program created by President Roosevelt to put Americans back to work during the Great Depression 17. Nicholas Tesla:

Tax paid to the state, federal, and local governments based on income earned over the past year. 15. Monopoly:

a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system 18. Progressive Era:

Complete control of a product or business by one person or group

The direct election of US senators, women's suffrage, and greater government regulation of large industries were all issues importance in the early 1900s in large urban areas 19. Robber Barons: 22. Stock Market:

Negative term used to describe large businessmen of the late 1800's because of the fact that they used ruthless practices to destroy competition and took advantage of workers. This A system for buying and selling shares of companies included Tesla, Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and more 23. Temperance Movement: 20. Social Security:

(FDR) 1935, guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems 21. : created by it. This was led predominately by women. This will cause the passing of the 18th amendment which prohibits the sale, production, and consumption of alcohol. Began in 1820s 24. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA):

Progressive concept by Roosevelt that would help capital, labor, built dams for hydroelectric power in the Tennessee Valley and the public. It called for control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources. It denounced special treatment for the large capitalists and is the essential element to his trust-busting attitude. This deal embodied the belief that all corporations must serve the general public good. 25. : 28. Trust Busting:

Government activities aimed at breaking up monopolies and trusts. 29. Unions:

1858-1919. 26th President.Known for trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," creating the , increasing the navy, received a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War. "Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick" policy 26. Thomas Edison:

An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages. 30. US Imperialism:

American inventor who developed many devices such as the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb 27. Trench Warfare:

U.S. gains interest in imperialism to grow the nation. Many U.S. imperialist supported Social Darwinism. U.S. sets their eyes on Hawaii and overthrew their queen to annex the land, which McKinley accepts. Treaty of Paris was signed and Spain lost Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Pacific island of Guam. United States The strategy of fighting with trenches with mines, and barbed also gained Philippines. McKinley wants to gain control of wire. Horrible living conditions, great slaughter, no gains, Philippines and civilize them because he fears of losing stalemate, used in WWI. Philippines to Spain and it would be "cowardly and dishonorable." 31. Woman's Suffrage:

1840s, women challenged traditional role of women (life of mother and caretaker) as they gathered at SENECA FALLS CONVENTION which was beginning of 1st wave feminism. Women continued to fight for the right to vote after the Seneca Falls Convention until the 19th amendment was passed in 1920. 32. Works Progress Adminstration (WPA):

built buildings, roads, airports, and schools during the Great Depression 33. World War 1:

(1914-1918) First time all European Countries are engulfed in one war (Italy, Austria-Hungry, and Germany, against France, Russia, Great Britain) as a result of industrial revolution, scramble for Africa, and alliance system, and at least 20 million people die, the assignation of Archduke Ferdinand was the breaking point, end of empire system. Easily identifiable by Trench Warfare