Becoming a World Power (7.2, 7.3)
This president said that it was important to "speak softly and carry a big stick"
Theodore Roosevelt
This was the nickname for journalists who specialized in investigative stories and uncovering scandalous information
muckrakers
This British passenger ship was sunk by the Germans in 1915, killing over 100 American civilians
Lusitania
What was the name for the natural disaster that blew away the farms of millions of people in the Great Plains ?
Dust Bowl storms
What laws did Congress pass in the 1930s to keep the US out of foreign conflicts?
Neutrality Acts
The sinking of the USS Maine is considered a primary cause of this war
Spanish-American War
This photojournalist exposed life in tenements and slums in his book How the Other Half Lives (1890)
Jabob Riis
Which famous trial of the 1920s focused on the teaching of evolution in schools
Scopes Monkey Trial
This specific New Deal government program created millions of government jobs for people during the Great Depression, even hiring artists to paint murals on government buildings
Works Progress Administration
What idea did African-American leaders and publications promote to encourage African-Americans to sign up to serve in WWII?
Double V Campaign
Cuba was forced to include the _______ ___________ in their new Constitution which in effect made Cuba a protectorate of the United States
Platt Amendment (1901)
As a result of the temperance movement, the ____ Amendment was passed which began Prohibition, but was it later repealed by the _____ Amendment
18th Amendment
21st Amendment
This was one of the worst race massacres of all time, it occurred in 1921 after an African-American teenager was accused of assaulting a white female teenager
Tulsa Race Massacre
This highly influential act was passed in 1935 to provide economic benefits to retired people, unemployed people, and others
Social Security Act
What law was passed in 1941 in order to keep supplying the Allies with war goods even though they couldn't pay for them anymore?
Lend-Lease Act
This Secretary of State was derided (made fun of) for purchasing Alaska from Russia in 1867
William H. Seward
This black leader believed in a more patient approach to Civil Rights - first earning white respect in the economic sphere
Booker T. Washington
What was the event called that saw the US government arrest thousands of suspected communists and radicals after WWI? (the answer is not the Red Scare, but it is a part of the Red Scare)
Palmer Raids
Which political party was reshaped in the 1930s to include African-Americans and other minority groups who supported the programs of the New Deal?
Democratic Party
What government agency was created to oversee the transition of the economy to wartime production of tanks, planes, weaponry, etc.?
War Production Board
The US helped Panama gain its independence from this Latin country so that the US could finish building the Panama Canal
Columbia
Name one of the two laws that resulted from reaction to Upton Sinclair's horrifying book The Jungle
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Name one of the laws that was passed to limit anti-war speech during WWI
Espionage Act (1917)
Sedition Act (1918)
What controversial plan did FDR have to deal with some of his New Deal legislation being declared unconstitutional?
Court-packing plan
What program did the US government create to bring in more Mexican farmworkers during the War?
Bracero Program