Westward Ex./Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Imperialism
WWI/Roaring 20's
Great Depression/WWII
100

Vocabulary word for one person controlling one industry. 

Monopoly

100

Journalists and writers who exposed the government are called...

Muckrakers

100

The name of the war that made the United States a world power.

Spanish American War

100

List one reason the United States joined WWI.

SUSSEX PLEDGE

LUSITANIA SINKING

UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE

TELEGRAM (ZIMMERMAN)

100

The reason the U.S. joined WWII.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

200

Vocabulary word for little to no government involvement.

laissez-faire

200

Author of the "Jungle"

Upton Sinclair

200

Describe the Open Door Policy in China

Equal trade with European countries and the United States in China.

200

Women in opposition of traditional women in the United States. 

Flapper

200

What year did the stock market crash?

1929

300

Old immigrants that dislike or mistreat new immigrants.

Nativists 

300

Name the act passed by the government to dissolve or stop monopolies.

Sherman Anti-trust Act

300

Who was President during the construction of the Panama Canal?

Theodore Roosevelt

300

The reason the U.S. did not sign the Treaty of Versailles

Punishment on Germany was too harsh.

300

Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?

The U.S. sanctions on Japan's oil, rubber, etc. 

400

What are the three reasons for westward expansion?

Homestead Act 1862

Gold Rush

Transcontinental Railroad

400

Jacob Riis is a muckraker who exposed how the __________ lived.

Immigrants

400

What two states were added to the United States as a result of imperialism?

Alaska and Hawaii

400

The reason the United States did not join the League of Nations

An isolated America did not want to be entangled in another war.

400

What event ended the Great Depression?

WWII

500

Name the four industrialists.

Carnegie

Rockefeller

Vanderbilt 

Morgan

500

Jane Addams started what type of houses for immigrants?

Settlement Houses

500

What country was blamed for the U.S.S. Maine explosion? 

Spain

500

Who was the president during WWI?

Woodrow Wilson

500

Name two presidents during the Great Depression.

Herbert Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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