Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Rise of a World Power
Roaring Twenties
Great Depression & New Deal
World War I
100
This word best explains the changes shown in these photographs.
What is assimilation?
100
This amendment expanded the democratic process by prohibiting discrimination in voting on the basis of gender.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
100
In the late 1800s, Sanford B. Dole contributed to the expansion of the U.S. by advocating the annexation of this current state.
What is Hawaii?
100
The establishment of speakeasies in the 1920s was an unintended consequence of the prohibition of this item.
What is alcoholic beverages?
100
This was a defining characteristic of the U.S. during the 1930s.
What was unemployment OR hunger OR poverty?
100
New military technology in the Great War.
What is machine guns or tanks or barbed wire or trench warfare or chemical warfare?
200
This law in 1882 was a response to the competition for jobs on the West Coast and the influx of immigrants from Asia.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
The publication of this book, read by Theodore Roosevelt, prompted government regulations requiring the inspection of food products.
What is The Jungle?
200
The cartoon image below is a commentary on the tactics used to obtain control of the Panama Canal Zone by this U.S. President.
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
200
This type of woman challenged traditional attitudes and social norms, often wearing bobbed hair, knee-length fringed skirts, and flat-heeled little-girl sandals.
What is a flapper?
200
An intense drought in the Great Plains created the Great Plains into this dirty dish.
What was the Dust Bowl?
200
The capture of this telegram lead to US involvement in WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
300
This group of people were against new immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe.
Who are nativists?
300
This policy of minimum governmental interference in the economy.
What is Laissez-faire?
300
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan influenced the growth of this military branch securing the U.S. as a world power through overseas expansion.
What is the U.S. Navy?
300
Most prominent trumpet musician of the Jazz Age.
Who is Louie Armstrong?
300
The federal government built this to provide resources for the growing population of the American West.
What is the Hoover Dam?
300
Worldwide organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson to maintain peace after WWI.
What is the League of Nations?
400
This type of person gained voter support by making improvements in urban infrastructure; leaders of political machines
Who are party bosses?
400
Her achievements include speaking out against lynching, writing and owning her own newspaper, and creating a suffrage club for African American women.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
400
The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor set off this war.
What is the Spanish-American War
400
This amendment repealed Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
400
President Roosevelt's plan to bring America out of the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
400
A monetary investment in the war effort.
What is a Liberty Bond?
500
This political party wanted free coinage of silver to increase the amount of money in circulation.
What is the Populist Party?
500
This founder of the NAACP, sociologist, and educator protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment.
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
500
Policy that stated that the US would as an international police power in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
500
The application of "survival of the fittest" to humans and societies
What is Social Darwinism?
500
Slums brought on by the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
500
This treaty forced the German government to pay reparations for the damages caused during the war
What is the Treaty of Versailles?