Gilded Age and Imperialism
Significance of Spindletop in Texas
oil was discovered here, making the oil industry grow
Which party looked for reforms such as silver coinage, nationalization of the railroads, and graduated income tax?
Populist Party
Unrestricted _____________________ led to Wilson asking congress to declare war on April 2nd, 1917.
Submarine warfare
Better pay and more job opportunities, less discrimination, more education, and a sense of citizenship in the northern states caused many African Americans in the south to move north. This was known as the…
Great Migration
Great Britain used the _____ to avoid war with Hitler, by giving in to his demands.
Appeasement Policy
Business giant who started as a telegraph operator
Andrew Carnegie
Upton Sinclair wrote which book that prompted the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to be passed?
The Jungle
How did total war change the workforce in the US?
African American men from the south found job opportunities in the northern factories
Women entered the workforce to help with the war effort
October 29, 1929 became known as _______. A group of veterans known as the _______ marched to Washington to get the payments they were due from the war.
Black Tuesday
Bonus Army
First, Germany and Italy joined forces under the _______, and because Japan was against communism, they joined Germany under the _____.
Rome-Berlin Axis
Anti-Comintern Pact
How did Americans justify imperialism
Civilizing and spreading Christianity
The 16th Amendment established the _____.
Federal Income Tax
Explain why Austria-Hungary went to war with Serbia?
Control of Bosnia
President ________ responded to the Great Depression by keeping the government out of the economy and letting the business cycle work itself out. He signed the ______ Act to raise tariffs on goods going to Europe.
Hoover
Hawley Smoot
In June of 1940, _______ was forced to surrender to Germany, and Great Britain was all alone in the war.
France
What was the advantage of having the Philippines as a US territory?
strategic location near Asia
President _____ paid attention to the Muckrakers.
Theodore Roosevelt
Why did the US Congress decide not to join the League of Nations after WWI?
They wanted to avoid being pulled into another war.
President Roosevelt created the _______ to help the American economy recover from the Great Depression and started______ to help Americans have more confidence about the future of the economy and the country as a whole.
New Deal
Fireside Chats
Prime Minister _____ gave a number of speeches telling Britains to “hold the line” and stay strong during the Battle of Britain.
Winston Churchill
What was the Jones Act of 1917?
granted citizenship to Puerto Ricans
The right to vote for women was established with which amendment?
19
Under the leadership of the Bolshevik leader named ______, Russia’s government changed to ______.
Vladimir Lenin
communism
_______ was the historical name given to all of the agencies that were created as a part of the New Deal to provide relief, recovery, and reform in the United States.
Alphabet Soup
The African American campaign for “victory abroad and victory at home” meant winning the war and also…
Having civil rights at home in the United States.