The Spanish-American War
Conflict came between the United States and Spain over this Spanish colony.
What is Cuba?
This German message, intercepted by Britain, was the final straw for pushing America into World War I
This era of American history was characterized by making the manufacture and sale of alcohol illegal
What is Prohibition?
This economic event was a primary cause for the Great Depression, due to numerous people selling stocks and being unable to pay off stocks they bought on loan.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929? (or Black Tuesday)
President Roosevelt passed fifteen new laws and numerous New Deal programs during this period of his presidency.
What is the First Hundred Days?
This boat was destroyed on the coast of Havana, plunging America into war with Spain.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
Wilson's Fourteen Points were designed for this reason.
What is to create peace and prevent another world war?
This modern woman broke from traditions by having short hair, short dresses, smoking and drinking
What is a flapper?
Name two effects of the Great Depression on the American people.
Accepted answers: bread lines, soup lines, Hoovervilles, unemployment, child labor, loss of savings, etc.
This program gave unemployed men jobs helping to build public institutions like highways, schools, and hospitals. It also gave artists work on national projects.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
The United States was hesitant to get into a war with Spain because of this foreign policy.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This union of countries and world powers was meant to prevent future world wars, but the United States did not join in.
What is the League of Nations?
This was an explosion of artistic expression, culture, and music from the African American community.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This period of drought in the American plains caused dust storms and forced many to move to the West Coast for work.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This program encouraged farmers to cut surplus crops to raise prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
This type of media focuses on sensationalist stories that often bend the truth to get more attention.
What is yellow journalism?
This treaty to end World War I was never ratified by the US, but required Germany to shoulder the blame for the war, lowered their military, and pay huge reparations to the Allied nations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This court case not only debated whether evolution should be taught in schools, but whether America should stick to traditional or modern values.
What is the Scopes Trial (or the Monkey Trial)?
These "migrant camps" or "shanty towns" were where many unemployed Americans were forced to live, making homes out of scrap materials.
This program insures the unemployed and gives the elderly pensions for retirement. It is still used today.
What is social security?
These places were initially set up for Cubans' "protection" but ended up creating terrible conditions for Cubans who rebelled against Spain's misrule.
What are reconcentration camps?
This speech was made by the President to convince Congress that the US should enter World War I in 1917
What is "a world made safe for democracy"?
This was the name of the movement of African Americans up to the North away from the harsh Jim Crow laws of the South.
What was The Great Migration?
This is the year the Great Depression ended in America.
What is 1941?
This law allowed for collective bargaining between employees and managers, allowing for negotiation before strikes are necessary.
What is the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)?