Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Rise of a World Power
World War I
Roaring Twenties
Great Depression & New Deal
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
New technology of the Great War used to cross No Man's Land and end the stalemate.
What are tanks?
100
The establishment of speakeasies in the 1920s was an unintended consequence of the prohibition of this item.
What is alcoholic beverages?
100
Year of the Stock Market Crash.
What is 1929?
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 prompted government regulations requiring the inspection of food products.
What is The Jungle?
200
President that used aggressive tactics to obtain control of the Panama Canal Zone.
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
200
The capture of this telegram lead to US involvement in WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
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
This was caused by drought and overfarming in the Great Plains.
What was the Dust Bowl?
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
Worldwide organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson to maintain peace after WWI.
What is the League of Nations?
300
African American cultural movement in New York City, establishing jazz as a musical form.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
The federal government built this to provide resources for the growing population of the American West.
What is the Hoover Dam?
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
Court case that said the government could limit free speech if it posed a danger to the country during wartime.
Schenck v. United States
400
Name for the movement of African Americans from the South to the North for job opportunities and to escape racism.
What is the Great Migration?
400
President Roosevelt's plan to bring America out of the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
500
Law that granted settlers free or cheap land in the west.
What is the Homestead Act?
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 act as an international police power in Latin America; addition to the Monroe Doctrine.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
500
This treaty forced the German government to pay reparations for the damages caused during the war
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
500
The application of "survival of the fittest" to humans and societies
What is Social Darwinism?
500
Slums/homeless camps brought on by the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?