Reconstruction/Westward Expansion
This Linked the nation economically from East to West.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
Journalists who tried to uncover corruption in American society.
Who are muckrakers?
This is where President Woodrow Wilson proposed a League of Nations. (Not a location)
What was Wilson's Fourteen Points?
This region of the United States most affected by the Dust Bowl.
What is the Great Plains (Midwest)?
This is the method of activism and protest used by Martin Luther King Jr.
What is Civil Disobedience?
Banned monopolies and bad trusts that interfered with free competition.
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Tragic event that happened in New York City where almost 150 works (mostly female) were killed because they could not escape the factory they worked in. Caused congress to pass laws that created safer working conditions.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What are the 4 underlying causes of World War I?
Militarism
Alliance Systems
Imperialism
Nationalism
This was a casual way that President Franklin Roosevelt reassured the American people about the future of the economy.
What were FDR's Firesaide Chats?
List 3 ways Americans helped the war effort at home during World War II.
- Rationing/Canning
- Planted Victory Gardens
- Purchased war bonds
- Women got factory jobs
Reconstruction amendments (3) that were added to the Constitution to give legal rights to African Americans.
What is the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
What was the message of Emma Lazarus' New Colossus Poem:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempt-tost, to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
To welcome new immigrants into the United States.
This was built to shorten the distance and time it would take for ships to travel between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This is a New Deal agency that was set up during the Great Depression that provides disability, unemployment, and retirement benefits to workers.
What is the Social Security Administration?
Nickname given to the African American students who tried to enter Central High School in Arkansas once segregation in the school systems was deemed unconstitutional.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
List 2 ways African Americans were disenfranchised after the 15th amendment was passed.
(Disenfranchise: keep someone from voting)
- Literacy Tests
-Poll taxes
-Grandfather Clause
-Intimidation from KKK members
What was the main reason for urbanization during the industrial revolution?
Increase in available jobs.
List 4 punishments forced on Germany in the Treaty of Versailles:
- Germany had to accept blame for the war
- Germany had to pay reparations for the damage done during the war
- Germany had to reduce the size of it's military
- Germany had to surrender it's colonies
During this period African Americans moved to Northern cities in large numbers to escape poverty and racial violence in the South.
What was the Great Migration?
This Supreme Court Case ruled that "Separate but Equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional.
List 2 ways Native Americans were forced to assimilate:
- The Dawes Act
-Sending Native American kids to white boarding schools
- Teaching Native Americans to speak English
This change to the constitution gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
As a result of American imperialism, list 4 areas of the world the United States expands to/takes over:
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
The Philippines
Panama Canal
Cuba (Guantanamo Bay)
Guam
List 4 causes of the Great Depression.
Stock Market Crash / Buying on Margin
Installment Buying / Overproduction
Bank Failures
Global Depression in Europe
Farming Problems (Dust Bowl)
List 4 causes of World War II (and be able to explain them).
Imperialism/Nationalism: Axis powers were expanding into other nations
The rise of dictators: European nations were damaged after WWI and saw dictators as a way out of their troubles
Militarism: Axis power nations began to increase their military power
The Treaty of Versailles: Blame put on Germany after WWI angered them. Weakened economies in Europe made it easy to Germany to invade.