This word means to "blend in" or adopt the ways of the majority culture.
What is assimilation?
100
This is a view of society based on the idea of “survival of the fittest,” or the view that the most deserving human beings will succeed in business and in life in general.
What is social Darwinism?
100
This is the difference between isolationism and imperialism.
What is that isolationism is a policy of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nation, while imperialism is a policy of empire-building and expanding territory?
100
This was the nickname for the day the stock market crashed in 1929.
What is "Black Tuesday"?
100
This was the immediate reason for the U.S.'s entry into World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese military?
200
This man led African Americans out West to new territories like Kansas to help them start new lives with better opportunities during the late 1800s.
Who is Benjamin "Pap" Singleton?
200
This is the main goal in both a capitalistic economy and in an imperialistic system.
What is to maximize profit and to gain wealth/resources?
200
These are the two groups of alliances involved in World War I.
What is the Allied Powers and the Central Powers?
200
This was the name of the flourishing of culture in the African American community, especially in New York, that began in the 1920s. It led to great literary and musical achievements by people like Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
These were the three main groups of people held in internment camps in the U.S. during World War II because we were at war with their ancestor countries.
What are the Japanese Americans, German Americans, and Italian Americans?
300
This was the 1864 deportation of the Navajo people by the U.S. government, where Navajos were forced to walk at gunpoint from their reservation in the West.
What is the Long Walk?
300
This was the name of the 1892 strike against Andrew Carnegie's steel company, in which unskilled workers united with unionized skilled workers to fight for better working conditions. It ended with a lockout by the factory manager, Henry Frick.
What is the Homestead Strike?
300
This was the name of the executive organization that tried to drum up popular support for World War I by encouraging conservation, enlistment in the military, etc.
What is (President Woodrow Wilson's) Committee on Public Information (CPI)?
300
This is the name of the New Deal law that provided aid to the elderly and poor by creating a new payroll tax.
What is the Social Security Act?
300
The harsh terms of this treaty is what led to the rise of militant and dangerous German leaders like Hitler, who wanted to bring Germany back to glory and scapegoat another group of people.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
This spiritual movement practiced by the Sioux Indians was outlawed by the U.S. government when they saw it as some kind of preparation for war.
What is the Ghost Dance?
400
This is the name of an economic system in which businesses are free from government regulation or intervention.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
400
This is the official name for the political status of Puerto Rico in relation to the U.S. government.
What is a commonwealth?
400
This was the main difference between President Hoover's and President Roosevelt's reactions to the Great Depression.
What is that Hoover promoted independence, self-support and freedom from government intervention, while Roosevelt promoted federal welfare programs and heavy government involvement in the economy?
400
This is the name of the political system in which the "state" or national government is considered to be more important than the individuals living in it. It describes Italy during the WWII era.
What is fascism?
500
This event was the turning point in U.S. government-Indian relations, according to photographer Aaron Huey.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
500
This is what the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 did and to which kinds of Chinese people it did it to.
What is banned Chinese laborers (except for business owners and students) from immigrating to America for 10 years?
500
This is the name of the Amendment that stated the U.S. policy of not interfering with Cuba; this policy was revoked in a later amendment that said the U.S. has the right to intervene in Cuba's affairs.
What is the Teller Amendment?
500
These are the names of the three people (a singer, a writer, and a photographer) who documented and spread awareness of Dust Bowl migrants/refugees.
Who are Dorothea Lange, John Steinbeck, and Woody Guthrie?
500
This is the document that provided Japan with an ultimatum for unconditional surrender.