Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Some terms and concepts for midterm exam

Essay Topics

- Successes and failures of the Labor Movement

- Successes and limitations of the Birth Control Movement

Terms/Concepts

Joseph McCarthy
Edgar R Murrow
Monroe Doctrine
Panama Canal
Spanish American War
imperialism
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Alice Paul
Sherman Antitrust Act
Seneca Falls
Carrie Chapman Catt
NAWSA, NWP
Triangle Shirt Waist Fire
16, 17, 18, 19th amendments
Federal/State gov’t
Progressive era
Settlement houses, Jane Adams
Unions, AFL, IWW, CIO
John Lewis
Hepburn Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Samuel Gompers
Eugene Debs
Socialism
Strikes
Taylorism
Schenk v. U. S.
Conscription act
Ema Goldman
Helen Keller
WWI, Allies, Central Powers, basic geography of War
Woodrow Wilson, 14pts , Treaty of Versailles
Spanish American War
Industrialization
Immigration
1920s, economy of
Calvin Coolidge
Warren Harding
Herbert Hoover
Taft-Hartley Act
Margaret Sanger/Birth Control Movement
Anthony Comstock
Griswold v. Connecticut
Roe v. Wade
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Dust Bowl
Great Depression
Grapes of Wrath
Motherhood, types of
WWI Bonus Army
Sacco and Vanzetti
Palmer Raids
Red Scare’
Bolshevik Revolution
J. D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
W. E. B. DuBois
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mellon Plan
Flint Sit-Down Strike
Seattle General Strike
Gov't, Economic Systems
New Deal
Women and the New Deal
Social Security Act
CCC
TVA
WPA
Wagner Act
NIRA
Political/Cultural/Economic Spectrum
types of government and economic systems
muckraker
Silent Sentinel
Marxist
scab labor
collective bargaining
Taylorism
AAA



Readings:
Zinn-Socialist Challenge, War is the Health, Self Help in Hard Times
Battle for Suffrage, Birth Control Packet, Who Built America

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