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Woodrow Wilson | President of the United States during World War I |
Black Tuesday | the day the Stock Market Crashed; October 29, 1929 |
Franklin D Roosevelt | President of the United States that wrote the New Deal |
hoovervilles | nickname for homeless shacks where poor people lived during the Depression |
Spanish American War | war against Spain to help Cuba gain independence |
Open Door Policy | U.S. foreign policy, trying to create open trade in China |
Dollar Diplomacy | U.S. foreign policy, attempting to grow markets in Latin America by investing in banks and businesses |
William Howard Taft | U.S. President responsible for Dollar Diplomacy |
Theodore Roosevelt | U.S. President responsible for the acquisition of the Panama Canal |
Rough Riders | military group that Theodore Roosevelt led during the Spanish American War; victory at the Battle of San Juan Hill |
Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace at the end of World War I |
League of Nations | Part of the Fourteen Points, a plan for an organization that would help countries work out problems |
Treaty of Versailles | Treaty that ended World War I; assigns blame and reparations to Germany |
fireside chats | President Franklin Roosevelt's address to American people during his presidency; broadcast over radio |
18th amendment | amendment to the U.S. Constitution that banned the production and sale of alcohol |
19th amendment | amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave women the right to vote |
21st amendment | amendment to the U.S. Constitution that repealed Prohibition |
Herbert Hoover | President of the United States during the Great Depression |