Industrial Era
An area of land legally designated by the US government for a Native American tribe.
Susan B. Anthony and other "suffragettes" pushed for the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920 which did what?
Gave women the right to vote.
THIS president passed the "New Deal" which was a series of government economic reforms and welfare programs designed to help Americans overcome the Great Depression.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created in 1949, the US was primarily concerned with what enemy country?
The Soviet Union
From 2001-2021, the US kept its military in THIS country, initially to hunt down the organizers of the 9/11 attack.
Afghanistan
What is a "tenement"?
Tenements were narrow, low-rise apartment buildings. They were often cramped, poorly lit and lacked indoor plumbing and proper ventilation.
Groups such as the anti-Saloon league and the Women's Christian Temperance Movement pushed for the passage of the 18th Amendment which did what?
Prohibited the sale of alcohol
What started the Great Depression?
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
This meeting was where the US and Soviet Union agreed to divide Germany after the war and where the Soviets agreed to attack Japan.
Yalta Conference
What terrorist organization led the 9/11 attacks?
Al-Qaeda
Why were bison herds systematically killed off in the West in the late 1800s?
To cut off Native American food supplies. To force them to live in reservations and be dependent on agriculture.
The Palmer Raids, and the First Red Scare overall, primarily targeted who?
Communists
This period of sandstorms and drought led many farms across the Great Plains to fail. Many of the suffering farmers fled to California.
The Dust Bowl
The House Unamerican Activities Committee was a committee in Congress designed to target who?
Communists
The PATRIOT Act allows the government to do what in the name of fighting terrorism.
Gives government the power to monitor civilians through their personal devices.
The 1896 court case: Plessy v. Ferguson officially legalized what?
Segregation
The court said facilities had to be "separate but equal"
Poor working conditions and no health or safety standards became the cause for the activists and the government to call for social and economic reforms during THIS period between roughly 1900 and 1920.
The Progressive Era
This trade-related law was passed by Pres. Herbert Hoover as an attempt to reduce the impact of the Great Depression by protecting US business from foreign competition. Instead, it worsened the Depression by reducing global trade.
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff
What was the domino theory?
The belief among American politicians that if one country became communist, all the countries around it would inevitably become communist as well.
Starting in 1998, the US military intervened in THIS country to stop the the Serbian government from killing ethnic Albanians.
Kosovo
How did large scale European immigration affect cities in the late 1800s?
Lots of cheap labor, Culturally diverse cities, Increased population in cities
What kind of disagreements started the West Virginia Mine Wars?
Disagreements over working conditions and workers' right to unionize. Police, the national guard, and company security all brutally cracked down on the miners.
The Double V Campaign was a movement during WW2 for Black Americans to achieve WHAT two kinds of victory?
Victory against fascism abroad, and victory against racism at home.
What president organized the burglary of Watergate Hotel in 1972 to steal documents that would help him get re-elected?
Richard Nixon
How did the US justify its invasion of Iraq?
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein allegedly had "Weapons of Mass Destruction"