Imperialism/WWI
The (accidental) explosion of the USS Maine in the harbor off Havana, Cuba in 1898 was the primary cause of this war
What is the Spanish-American War?
Upton Sinclair's famous 1905 book about the poor working conditions in Chicago meatpacking plants
What is The Jungle?
This alliterative president took over after Warren Harding's death in 1923 and famously said "the business of America is business"
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
Give the word that's missing from FDR's first inaugural address: "the only thing we have to _________ is __________ itself"
What is fear?
What is 1941?
The Spanish-American War took place in Cuba and these islands in Southeast Asia, which would become a US colony until World War II
What are the Philippines?
Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and other progressive writers and journalists were known by this term
What were the muckrakers?
This Tennessee teacher was the center of national attention in 1925 as the subject of the famous "Monkey trial" that ensued when he taught his biology students the theory of evolution
Who is John Scopes?
The 31st president, who was blamed for the first four years of the Depression, gave his name to these shantytowns where people who had lost their homes were forced to live
What are Hoovervilles?
Before WWII, FDR fought against American neutrality with this alliterative law to give weapons and equipment to Great Britain
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This president ran for reelection in 1916 under the campaign slogan "he kept us out of war;" the following year, we went to war
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
A fire at this NYC factory in 1921 that resulted in the deaths of 146 employees led to the passage of workplace safety legislation
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist factory?
Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, and Alain Locke were three of the key figures of this NYC-based movement, also known as the "New Negro Movement"
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This piece of legislation, arguably the most lasting legacy of the New Deal, created the social safety net in 1935
What is the Social Security Act?
FDR (and Truman) met many times during the war as part of the "Big Three," along with the two leaders of the US's chief allies; name them both
Who are Churchill and Stalin?
This chain of islands, which were highly valued by the US because of their strategic location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, officially became a US territory in 1900
What is Hawaii?
Progressive reformers were successful in pushing for four constitutional amendments during the 1910s and 1920s; this amendment, ratified in 1913, instituted a national income tax
What is the 16th Amendment?
This international agreement, signed by the US and many other nations in 1928, outlawed war (it was not effective)
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
This organization, created during the Second New Deal in 1935, employed millions for public works projects, as well as musicians, photographers, playwrights, and other artists
What is the WPA?
This secret project resulted in the creation of the atomic bombs eventually dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What is the Manhattan Project?
A "corollary" (or addition) to the Monroe Doctrine stated that the US could intervene in Latin American countries as a last resort; it was named after this v active president
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
These two African-American reformers advocated different tactics to achieve racial progress; the first one through improved education, the second one through more aggressive fights in the courts
Who were Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. du Bois?
The famous stock market crash of 1929 occurred in this month
What is October?
The original NRA was this fairly socialist organization, created during the New Deal to set prices and wages
What is the National Recovery Administration?
This famous general was the commander of US forces in the later part of the war, and oversaw the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?