Imperialism
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.
The Panama Canal
The term given to journalists who exposed underhanded practices of politicians and unethical or dangerous abuses by corporations.
Muckrakers
This started WW1
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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.
Scopes Monkey Trial
A example of the transition from Isolation to Intervention that allowed the US to loan weapons and war supplies to Great Britain.
The Lend-Lease Act
Alfred Mahan suggested the U.S. develop this branch of the military in order to increase American influence and power abroad.
Navy
The title of Upton Sinclair's novel about the disturbing and unsanitary practices he discovered in the Chicago meat-packing industry.
The Jungle
One Reason the US entered WW1
Zimmerman Telegram
Sinking of the Lusitania
Unrestricted German Submarine Warfare
What were women called if they went against social norms?
Flappers
Symbol of the American female factory worker who went to work during WWII.
Rosie the Riveter
The name given to Teddy Roosevelt's addendum to the Monroe Doctrine that asserted U.S. control over Latin America.
Roosevelt Corollary
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.
Jane Addams
Movement of nearly 2 million African-Americans from the South to the North for industrial jobs.
The Great Migration
What was Roosevelt's Three R's
Relief
Recovery
Reform
The name given to the creation of the atomic bombs that were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Manhattan Project
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
* Year that we become an Empire
* War that we win that gives us an Empire
* Name 3 (of 4) "nations" we acquire
This movement was led primarily by middle-class female reformers who sought to spread Christianity through aid to immigrants and the urban poor.
The Social Gospel Movement
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 vs US
Franklin Roosevelt tried to do this to get some new ideas in the Supreme Court
"Packing" the Court
The Supreme Court case the ruled the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII was legal.
Korematsu vs the US
Called for equal protection and privileges for (all) countries trading with China. Written by US - China not consulted.
Open Door Policy
This disaster occurred in New York (1911), involved the deaths of 146 people, and drew attention to unsafe working conditions.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
A) Wilson's Plan Post-WW1
B) Name of Treaty
C) Organization formed Post-WW1
What was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in NYC and influenced by African Americans.
Harlem Renaissance
Provided WWII veterans with low interest mortgages, college tuition, and vocational training.
G. I. Bill