Vocab
This economic process involves shifting from hand tools to machinery, leading to the rapid growth of urban areas and the mass production of goods.
What is industrialization?
This term describes Progressive Era investigative journalists who used writing and photography to expose corruption and social injustice.
What is a muckraker?
The letter "N" in the acronym M.A.I.N. represents this long-term cause of World War I, defined as intense pride in one's own nation.
What is nationalism?
This foreign policy strategy was adopted by the U.S. during the Cold War to stop the geopolitical spread of communism.
What is Containment?
This president faced severe public backlash and criticism when he granted a full presidential pardon to former President Richard Nixon.
Who is Gerald Ford?
Ratified in 1920, the 19th Amendment granted this long-fought right to American women
What is Suffrage (the right to vote)?
This famous muckraker wrote a scathing exposé targeting the ruthless monopoly tactics of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
The mysterious explosion of this U.S. battleship in Havana, Cuba, served as a primary spark for the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
Winston Churchill coined this term to describe the imaginary boundary dividing democratic Western Europe from communist Eastern Europe.
What is the Iron curtain?
In response to the tragic terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush established this brand-new Cabinet department.
What is the department of Homeland Security?
Severe drought, over-farming, and heavy winds caused this devastating environmental crisis in the Great Plains during the 1930s.
What is the dust bowl?
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision completely overturned Plessy v. Ferguson by declaring that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional
What is Brown vs Board of Education?
Sensationalized, exaggerated, and biased news reporting used by publishers like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst to sway public opinion.
What is yellow journalism?
This terrifying 13-day standoff in 1962 brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the literal brink of nuclear war over Soviet missiles placed near Florida
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The election of 2008 was a historic milestone because this candidate was elected as the first African American President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This President introduced the "New Deal" domestic package to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.
Who is FDR?
Martin Luther King Jr. heavily relied on this tactic, which involves a peaceful, deliberate refusal to obey unjust laws.
What is civil disobedience ?
A surprise military strike on this Hawaiian naval base on December 7, 1941, directly prompted the United States to enter World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
During the Vietnam War, anti-war protesters were known as "doves," while those who pushed for aggressive military victory were called this.
What are hawks?
Bill Clinton became the second president in U.S. history to undergo this process, which means to be formally charged with misconduct while in office.
What is impeachment?
This 1920s cultural movement in New York celebrated African American literature, music, and art, famously featuring poet Langston Hughes.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
These were the two immigration processing centers that were used to evaluate new arrivals to America.
What is Ellis ISland and Angel Island?
Fueled by wartime fear and prejudice, Executive Order 9066 forced thousands of Japanese-Americans into these isolated relocation facilities.
What is Japanese Internment Camps?
President Richard Nixon utilized this policy, a French word meaning the easing or relaxation of Cold War tensions.
what is detente?
President Lyndon B. Johnson sweeping domestic reform program, which introduced massive anti-poverty programs like Medicare and Medicaid
What is the Great Society?