Big Business & Progressivism
Potpourri
Imperialism
WWI/20s
Great Depression
100
A company that desires to own all the means of production, from raw material to finished product, is trying to achieve this.
What is vertical integration?
100
This is a summary statement of an argument that includes the major supporting arguments.
Who is the thesis?
100
This ship was destroyed in the port of Havana, triggering the Spanish-American War.
What is the Maine?
100
These two Italian-born immigrants were arrested and executed in the 1920s.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
100
This president had a policy of little intervention regarding the Great Depression.
Who is Hoover?
200
This group of journalists earned their name by showing the dirty underside of American cities to the public.
Who are the Muckrakers?
200
Historical Significance can best be described as having these two features:
What are a large impact on lots of people and reveals something unique about the time period?
200
This type of newspaper publication featured exaggerated stories and sensational headlines in order to grab the audience's attention.
What is yellow journalism?
200
This New York neighborhood became a hotspot for black culture in the 1920s.
What is Harlem?
200
The Stock Market Crash that ushered in the Great Depression occurred in this year.
What is 1929?
300
Laissez-faire economics would see this type of relationship between the government and an economy.
What is hands off, or little involvement?
300
This pop music artist has recently removed her latest album from services such as Spotify, stating that she doesn't want to dismiss her fans who actually went out and bought her album.
Who is Taylor Swift?
300
American exceptionalism was sold to the American public at this World Fair.
What is the 1904 St. Louis World Fair?
300
President Wilson thought this was the most important part of his 14 Points.
What is the establishment of a League of Nations?
300
This term refers to President Roosevelt's first 3 months in office where he passed a number of laws to provide relief to those suffering.
What is the Hundred Days?
400
The Haymarket Riot in Chicago saw the execution of 8 people who were led by this man.
Who is Albert Speers?
400
In 2008, this former First Lady ran for the Democratic nomination in the presidential campaign, losing to Barack Obama.
Who is Hillary Clinton?
400
This document warned European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
In the Supreme Court Case, Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that there were certain limits to free speech: for instance, one cannot yell "Fire!" in a packed auditorium. This limit on free speech is known more popularly as...
What is Clear and Present Danger?
400
Programs such as the CCC and WPA were primarily intended to help this group of people...
What is the unemployed?
500
Upton Sinclair is best known for his expose of the meat packing industry in Chicago. This expose was called...
What is The Jungle?
500
In the TV series Battlestar Galactica, humanity was almost brought to extinction by this cybernetic civilization.
What are the Cylons?
500
This freedom fighter led the resistance against both Spanish and later American forces in the Philippines.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
500
American foreign policy during the 1920s can best be described as this...
What is isolationist?
500
The buying and selling of investments in order to profit is called...
What is share trading?
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