Labor, Industry, & the Gilded Age
This 1930s program expanded workers’ rights and helped increase union membership.
What is The New Deal
This territory became a U.S. possession after the Spanish-American War.
What are the Philippines?
This major conflict or era is most directly connected to the anti-war document in the reading section.
What is The Vietnam War?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism during the Cold War.
What is containment?
This period attempted to rebuild the South and define rights for formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This historical era is most associated with monopolies, big business, and powerful industrialists like Carnegie and Rockefeller.
What is the Gilded Age?
This canal connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, improving trade and military movement.
What is the Panama Canal?
This American organization blended Marxist-Leninism with Black Nationalism.
Who are the Black Panthers?
This agreement officially ended World War I and placed blame and heavy penalties on Germany.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
This war expanded government power, increased industrial production, and restricted some civil liberties in the U.S.
What is World War 1?
These workers most strongly supported labor unions in the early 1900s.
Who are industrial factory workers?
OR
Industrial Proletariat
This late-1800s belief encouraged expansion through economic opportunity and American growth.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This war was the first fought in line with The Cold War "domino theory" and resulted in a humiliating defeat for the The United States.
What is The Korean War?
This reform movement sought to address political corruption, unsafe working conditions, and monopolies in the early 1900s.
What is Progressivism?
This global conflict most directly helped end the Great Depression through military production and jobs.
What is World War II?
One major goal of labor unions was to improve these two things for workers.
What are wages and working conditions?
This war most directly marked the United States becoming a world power.
What is The Spanish-American War?
This period of anti-communist fear in the 1950s included blacklists, investigations, and accusations led by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
What is McCarthyism / The Red Scare?
This period of anti-communist fear led to political crackdowns and suspicion of radicals in the U.S.
What is the Red Scare?
Fear of this ideology shaped both U.S. foreign policy and domestic policy from 1945–1980.
What is Communism?
This president’s policies and deregulation efforts are often connected to the decline in union membership after 1980.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
These two regions best reflect U.S. imperialism during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What are The Caribbean and The Pacific?
This 1960s–1970s movement included protests against war, demands for civil rights, and challenges to traditional authority.
What is The New Left?
OR
The Counterculture movements
This type of Marxism developed in emerging capitalist countries, includes the peasantry as a revolutionary class and operates based on the idea of a vanguard party.
What is Leninism?
This labor leader and socialist ran for president multiple times and opposed U.S. involvement in World War I.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?