First Trimester
____________ was the period after the Civil War in which the South was rebuilt.
What was Reconstruction?
What was the explosion of the USS Maine?
In World War I the US fought against Germany, Italy and the Ottoman Empire, known as the ______ Powers
What is Central?
What are the 14 points?
This program, still in effect today, was designed to safeguard savings in banks.
What is the FDIC?
A _____________required that a voter pay a fine to vote.
What is a poll tax?
A long-term cause of the Spanish-American War.
What was American business expansion into sugar plantations and/or trade?
The immediate cause of World War I
What was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
After World War I the Germans were forced to pay this to the allies. This led to economic devastation.
What are reparations?
This program paid Senior Citizens to stop work; which opened up jobs for younger Americans and infused money back into the economy.
What is Social Security?
_____________________ worked an owner’s land in exchange for part of the crops.
What is a sharecropper?
These bugs were a major problem when the Panama Canal was built.
What are mosquitoes?
The United States joined World War I after the decoding of the Zimmerman Telegram in which our ______ were threatened.
What are ships? (Unrestricted submarine warfare)
In the 1920s, the 18th amendment prohibited sale and/or distribution of this.
What is alcohol?
In the American west, farmers faced this terrible climate change that destroyed their crops and livelihood.
What was the dust bowl?
Immigrants came to the United States for pull factors, like jobs, and ________, like war.
What are push factors?
America became an imperial nation when we kept colonies here after the Spanish-American War.
What are the Philippines and/or Puerto Rico?
During World War I, Americans fought mostly in this country.
What is France?
The American economy in the 1920s seemed strong, so many individuals did this to purchase more than they could afford
What is shopping on credit?
This is the practice started by FDR, and continued even today, where the federal govenment spends more money than it has.
What is defecit spending?
In the late 1800s, these places were popular because of easy access to jobs, as well as amusements and shopping. Many people lived in tenement buildings.
What are cities?
The four causes of World War I include militarism, imperialism, nationalism and this.
What are alliances?
World War I was known for terrifying warfare including u-boats, airplanes, mustard gas and the muddy area most soldiers lived and worked in.
What are trenches?
During the 1930s, Americans lost jobs, and could not afford to buy things, which caused businesses to cut back on workers, increasing what.
What is economic depression.
FDR's collection of programs designed to help Americans through the 1930s.
What was the New Deal?