Progressives or Imperialism
World War I Era
The 1920s
The 1930s
World War II
100
Upton Sinclair was the muckraker who wrote this book which exposed the meatpacking industry and the troubles associated with it.  

The Jungle

100
The British passenger ship destroyed by a German u-boat submarine.  This event contributed to Americans wanting to get involved in WWI.  
The Lusitania
100

Began with the 18th Amendment and ended with the 21st Amendment

Prohibition
100

Economic ideology where the government gets involved when times are tough and cuts back when the economy is doing better.

Keynesian Economics

100
Japan bombed this US naval and air force base.  The US responded by declaring war on Japan and officially entering WWI on the side of the Allies.
Pearl Harbor
200

The name of the ship that blew up in Havana Harbor just before the U.S. declared war on Spain in 1898.

The U.S.S. Maine

200

The discovery of this disclosed Germany's promise to help Mexico attack the US if the US declared war on Germany.

Zimmermann Telegram

200
The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.  
The Great Migration
200

Provides financial help to the elderly, unemployed, disabled.  This program still exists today.

Social Security Administration

200
Symbol of the American female factory worker who went to work during WWII.  
Rosie the Riveter
300
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.  
Jane Addams
300

Name of the couple assassinated on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo.

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg 

300

These were passed to reduce the number of immigrants from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Quota Acts / Immigration Act of 1924

300

Name for the action of using a loan to buy stock

Stocks on Margin

300

The name given to the work of creating the atomic bombs that were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 

The Manhattan Project

400
This US president helped to create the Panama Canal, was known as being a trust buster and a conservationist.  
Teddy Roosevelt
400
This Supreme Court decision declared that the federal government could limit the 1st Amendment right of "freedom of speech" in time of war and if there was a "clear and present danger."
Schenck v. US
400

The trial of a high school teacher in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law.  The teacher was found guilty and the trial was closely followed by the public.    

The Scopes Trial

400

This employed about 3 million men to work on projects that benefitted the public, especially in natural areas.  Was a part of FDR's First New Deal.  

Civilian Conservation Corps

400
Supreme Court decision that said Japanese internment during WWII was in fact constitutional because it was during a time of war.  
Korematsu v. US
500

He led the Philippines in the American-Philippine War

Emilio Aguinaldo

500
This was triggered by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.  Americans were very paranoid and scared that Communism would overtake America.  
The Red Scare
500

Name of a famous poet and activist during the Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes

500
The informal radio talks President FDR had with Americans during the Great Depression
Fireside Chats
500

Name of the campaign that fought for victory against fascism abroad and victory against racism at home.

The Double V Campaign

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