United
Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy
The use of naval forces
People most negatively affected by westward expansion?
Native Americans
A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.
Ku Klux Klan
After WWII most items used in American homes were made in?
countries all over the world
December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor attack
Scandal in which Reagan was forced to admit arms were sold to terrorists
What is the Iran Contra affair
What was the result of the Compromise of 1850?
California becomes a state
What was FDR's talks to the nation called?
Fireside chats
Innovation that sped up the speed of production
Assembly line
To grant concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace.
Appeasement
The events of 9/11 were due to this
What is terrorism
Reason for the population increase in California?
Gold rush of 1849
Drinkers went underground to hidden saloons & nightclubs, what were they called?
Speakeasies
Amendment that allowed taxation of income?
16th Amendment
A government ban on trade with one or more other nations.
An embargo
Great Society medical insurance program that remains popular with seniors today
Medicare
Reason homes on the plains were built of sod
What is it was the only material they had
A period of African-American artistic creativity during the 1920’s?
Harlem Renaissance
A tax on imported goods that is intended to protect a nation’s businesses from foreign competition.
Protective Tariff
Turning point of World War II in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
Samuel Gompers was the leader of this labor union?
American Federation of Labor
The Italian immigrants charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Prior to WWII most items in American homes were made in this country?
U.S.A.
U.S. policy that allowed for the sale of non-military goods to any nation at war as long as they paid for the goods up front and moved the goods on their own ships.
Cash and Carry
June 6, 1944
D-Day, Normandy, France