Industrialization
US Imperialism and WWI
1920
The Great Depression
WWII
100
An industrialist that pays worker low wages, runs competition out of business and exploits public resources .
What is a Robber Baron
100
This gave the US access to the millions of consumers in China.
What is Open Door Policy
100
Music that had a new beat and was improvisational.
What is Jazz
100
This was a major cause of unemployment in many factories.
What is overproduction
100
This was the US foreign policy in the 1920S and 30s before WWII.
What is isolationism
200
A form of monopoly that owns all the phases of production.
What is vertical monopoly
200
This war gave the US territory in the Caribbean and Pacific as well as freeing Cuba.
What is the Spanish-American War
200
He did not invent the assembly line but he did improve its efficiency.
Who is Henry Ford
200
This was an environmental disaster in the Great Plains where drought and high winds caused many farmers to leave and move west.
What is the Dust Bowl
200
This was how the United States sold goods to European nations right before and at the start of the war.
What is cash and carry
300
Cheap apartments for low wage earners and immigrants.
What is tenements
300
These were the MAIN cause to World War I.
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism
300
A racists group that followed African American to the north during the Great Migration
What is the Ku Klux Klan
300
This allowed investors to buy stocks for a percentage of the price and borrowed the rest from brokers.
What is buying on margin
300
"A day that will live in infamy"
What is December 7, 1941 - attack on Pearl Harbor
400
This was the port of entry for most immigrants coming from Europe.
What is Ellis Island
400
Woodrow Wilsons plans and post war goals that were denied by the French and British leaders at Versailles.
What is the fourteen points
400
This led to organized crime and illegal bars called speakeasies.
What is prohibition
400
The name places where people lived in shacks when they lost their homes
What is Hooverville
400
In order to buy goods civilians needed this as well as money
What is ration books
500
This led to more goods being sold at a cheaper price because of an increase in manufacturing.
What is mass production
500
Germany was forced to sign this even though it left them in economic ruin and forced admission of guilt for starting WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles
500
This invention sent the same information to everyone and created a new national culture
What is the radio
500
This was FDRs plan to get the country out of the depression
What is the New Deal
500
This was the Allied code name for storming the occupied French beaches at Normandy
What is D-Day
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