Unit 9 Vocabulary REVIEW

A British passenger ship that was sunk by the German U-boats; made America consider entering WWI.

• Lusitania

• Zimmerman Note

• Blue Laws

• Mass Media

1917 - Germany sent this to Mexico instructing an ambassador to convince Mexico to go to war with the U.S; intercepted and caused the U.S. to mobilized against Germany

• Mass Media

• Zimmerman Note

• Southern Literary Renaissance

• Blue Laws

A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I

• Fourteen Points

• Langston Hughes

• Blue Laws

• Harlem Renaissance

Regulation that prohibited certain private activities people considered immoral, such as drinking alcohol on Sundays

• Mass Media

• Blue Laws

• Stock Market Crash of 1929

• James F. Byrnes

Forms of communication, such as newspapers and radio, that reach millions of people.

• Harlem Renaissance

• Mass Media

• Langston Hughes

• Santee Cooper Electricity Project

a response to those who claimed South Carolina was a cultural wasteland, celebrated South Carolina heritage and literature

• Langston Hughes

• James F. Byrnes

• Southern Literary Renaissance

• Doolittle Raid

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

• Harlem Renaissance

• Stock Market Crash of 1929

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Santee Cooper Electricity Project

African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music.

• Langston Hughes

• James F. Byrnes

• Doolittle Raid

• Tuskegee Airmen

Plunge in stock market prices that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.

• Southern Literary Renaissance

• Stock Market Crash of 1929

• James F. Byrnes

• Mary McLeod Bethune

This man ran FDR's Office of Economic Stabilization. Under his rule from 1942 to 1946, the US was an absolute socialist model run off of this department.

• James F. Byrnes

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Pearl Harbor

• Tuskegee Airmen