Presidents
Four-term Democrat who battled the Great Depression with New Deal economic policies.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Landmark case that established separate but equal segregation in schools and public places.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
This construction project cost the lives of thousands of workers to malaria and yellow fever, but dramatically reduced travel times from port cities in the U.S.
What is the Panama Canal?
The term given to journalists who exposed underhanded practices of politicians and unethical or dangerous abuses by corporations.
What is a muckraker?
These were densely populated apartment buildings with little sanitation. They served as housing for many immigrant families in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What are tenement buildings?
Democratic heir to FDR whose decision to use atomic weapons and fight communism abroad led to the Cold War.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This amendment guarantees women's right to vote, and was earned partially due to their participation in the First World War.
Alfred Mahan suggested the U.S. develop this branch of the military in order to increase American influence and power abroad.
What is the Navy?
The title of Upton Sinclair's novel about the disturbing and unsanitary practices he discovered in the Chicago meat-packing industry.
What is the Jungle?
The Bessemer steel process and the invention of elevators made these structures possible, and they came to symbolize cities like New York.
What are skyscrapers?
Unconventional Republican who favored progressive, trust-busting reforms and conservationist environmental policies.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This amendment was passed to limit the number of terms a president may hold office after FDR was elected four times.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
Name given to Teddy Roosevelt's cavalry unit that stormed San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898.
Who were the Rough Riders?
Founder of the Hull House settlement organization that aimed to alleviate poverty and educate immigrant families.
Who is Jane Addams?
Places in the city people would go to drink and cut loose during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
Laissez-faire Republican whose inaction following the 1929 stock market crash condemned his presidency.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The first of this pair of amendments outlawed the sale and consumption of alcohol. The second reversed this policy.
What are the 18th and 21st Amendments?
The name given to Teddy Roosevelt's addendum to the Monroe Doctrine that asserted U.S. control over Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This disaster occurred in New York (1911), involved the deaths of 146 people, and drew attention to unsafe working conditions.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Sometimes called the "Monkey Trial," the Scopes Trial (1925) marked a growing difference between urban and rural values, particularly concerning this issue.
What is the teaching of evolution in public schools?
Progressive Democrat who championed cooperation between free nations and involved the U.S. in WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Free speech case during WWI that determined some civil liberties may be curtailed if there is a "clear and present danger."
What is Schenck v. United States (1919)
Failed attempt by Woodrow Wilson to establish an international peace-keeping organization and halt imperialist goals.
What is the League of Nations?
This movement was led primarily by middle-class female reformers who sought to spread Christianity through aid to immigrants and the urban poor.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
White and blue-color workers alike who felt emasculated by the tedium and mindlessness of the urban workplace increasingly sought exercise and escape at this establishment.
What is the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)?