The Gilded Age
This muckraker wrote The Jungle, exposing unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This policy promoted equal trade access in China for foreign nations.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This law gave settlers 160 acres of western land.
What is the Homestead Act?
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This 1941 attack led the United States to enter the Second World War.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This business leader promoted the “Gospel of Wealth,” arguing that the rich should help society through philanthropy.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This war in 1898 marked the emergence of the United States as a world power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This law banned most Chinese immigration to the United States in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This policy in the 1920s banned the production and sale of alcohol.
What is Prohibition? (18th Amendment)
This telegram encouraged Mexico to ally with Germany against the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This settlement house founded by Jane Addams helped immigrants and the urban poor in Chicago.
What is Hull House?
This Pacific island territory was annexed by the United States in 1898.
What is Hawaii?
This act divided Native American tribal lands in an attempt to force assimilation.
What is the Dawes Act?
This 1929 event triggered the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash? (Black Tuesday)
This U.S. policy after the First World War avoided alliances and foreign conflicts.
What is isolationism?
This system controlled all aspects of production, from raw materials to distribution.
What is vertical integration?
This amendment allowed the United States to intervene in Cuban affairs.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War and gave the United States land in the Southwest.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This series of programs and reforms was created to help Americans during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This treaty blamed Germany for the First World War and imposed harsh penalties.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This 1894 strike disrupted railroad traffic nationwide and involved Eugene V. Debs.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This foreign policy under Theodore Roosevelt justified U.S. intervention in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This 1890 massacre marked the end of major Native American resistance on the Plains.
What is Wounded Knee?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, literature, and music in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This program allowed the U.S. to send aid to Allied nations before officially entering World War II.
What is Lend-Lease?