Progressive Era
Imperialism
WWI
The Jazz Age
The Great Depression
100
What are the four components of any successful economy?
capital, land, labor, technology
100

Which of the following states that it limits Cuba's right to make treaties, and permits the United States to send troops into Cuba to keep order? *

Platt Amendment

100
The assassination of this man triggered or started World War I. *
Francis Ferdinand
100
What did bootleggers provid
illegal alcohal
100
What does it mean to buy on the margin?
The investor would pay a small down payment, and then borrow the money for the rest of the purchase.
200
Which of the following does a country always choose first when becoming a country? *
an economy
200
Who negotiated to gain Alaska as a United States territory? *
William Seward
200
What are three countries that belonged to the Allies Powers?
France, Britain, Russia, USA, Italy, Serbia
200
What was the KKK and who do they hate
A all white male organization that hates all non white protestant males.
200
Describe what a bank run is
When too many people attempt to withdraw their money from a bank in fear that the bank will collapse
300
When a country chooses an economic system what keeps it in place? *
a government
300
22. The Peace Treaty signed at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War stated that the United States took control of what three territories
Phillippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba
300
What countries belonged to the Central Powers? *
Germany, Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungry
300
What were flappers
young, independent women who wore short skirts and cut their hair short
300
What principle did President Hoover originally cling to as the solution to the nation's economic troubles? *
rugged individualism
400
What did a muckraker do? *
wrote about the poor conditions of industries and cities
400
The term yellow journalism refers to *
the printing sensational stories designed to sell newspapers.
400

What position did America take in the beginning of World War One? *

a neutral position

400
The explosion of African American arts, music, and political activity in the 1920s became known as *
The Harlem Renaissance
400
How did the government respond to the call for direct relief to families under Hoover? *
It told the states to continue spending their own money as well as for communities to aid each other
500
Who are the three progressive presidents? *
Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
500
Admiral Alfred T. Mahan's attempt to expand United States military strength did not include *
form an alliance with Spain
500
What are the four causes of World War I *
nationalism, imperialism, militarism, secret alliances
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Which social movement pushed for the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment that banned alcohol? *
Prohibition
500
How did the Second New Deal differ from the First?
It focused more on recovery or providing jobs
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