#7: An increasingly diverse nation faced profound domestic and global challenges, debated the proper degree of
government activism and sought to define its international role.
(1890-1945)
Kevin, Max, Pearl, Jenna 5th
1900
Guide:
Political
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- World War I (1914-1918)
- Wilson’s 14 Points
- 19th Amendment (1919)
-Teapot Dome Scandal (1921-1922)
--------------------------------------------------------- British Naval Blockade (1914)
- Dollar Diplomacy (1924)
- Colorado Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers
(1925)
- Credit/Consumer Growth (1925)
---------------------------------------------------------- Great Migration(1910-1970)
- Red Scare (1919-1920)
- Prohibition (1920-1933)
1929
- “Alphabet Soup” Agencies
(1933-1940)
- Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt
- Court Packing Controversy
(1937)
-------------------------------------------- New Deal (1933-1948)
- Wagner Act (1935)
- Indian Reorganization Act
(1934)
-------------------------------------------- The Dust Bowl (1934-1939)
- Federal Arts Project (1935)
- Films and Radio (1930-1939)
1945
Economic
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Social
- Scopes “Monkey” Trial (1925)
- Spanish-American War (1898)
-Philippine American War (1899-1902)
-US & Panama Canal (1902)
-Implementation of Direct Primaries
--------------------------------------Federal Reserve Act (1913)
-16th Amendment (1913)
-Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
-------------------------------------- 100% Americanism (~1914)
-NAACP (1909)
-Jim Crow Laws (1877-1954)
-Literacy Tests ( 1850s-1960s)
- Hardin Return to “Normalcy
Speech (1920)
- St. Louis & Chicago Race Riots
(1917, 1919)
-------------------------------------------- 18th Amendment (1919)
1914
- National Origins Act (1924)
- Stock Market Speculation (1920’
s)
-------------------------------------------- Automobiles & Technology
(1920-1929)
- Lost Generation (1920)
- Great Depression (1929-1939)
1937
- Atlantic Charter (1939-1945)
- “Four Freedoms” Speech (1941)
- Use of Atomic Bomb (1945)
- WWII Ends (1945)
------------------------------------------ Lend Lease Act (1941)
- War Production Board (1942)
- Rationing and Internal Migration
(1942-1946)
- GI Bill of Rights (1944)
----------------------------------------------- Rosie the Riveter (1940)
- Double V Campaign (1942)
- Japanese Internment (1942 - 1946)