Why did Southern States pass literacy tests and poll taxes after Reconstruction ended?
To keep African Americans from voting and exercising their rights
100
What statue welcomes immigrants in New York City's harbor?
Statue of Liberty
100
What term means expansion of territory by large powerful nations taking over smaller, weaker nations?
Imperialism
100
What event is credited with starting the Great Depression?
Stock Market Crash of 1929
100
What event caused the U.S. to enter World War II?
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
200
What was outlawed by the Eighteenth Amendment during Prohibition?
Alcohol
200
What term means manufacture of large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply?
Mass Production
200
What is Yellow Journalism?
Newspapers that use exaggeration and sensation
200
What did they call the shacks built by homeless people on the edges of cities during the Great Depression?
Hoovervilles
200
What was the name given to the Nazis' mass killing of Jews, Gypsies, and other minorities during World War II?
Holocaust
300
What were crusading journalists and authors who exposed corruption and problems in government and business?
Muckrakers
300
What new business organization of the late 1800s consisted of investors who bought shares of stock to share in profits of the business?
Corporation
300
What war was started by Yellow Journalism?
Spanish-American War
300
What was the rebirth of African American culture during the 1920s called?
Harlem Renaissance
300
What international organization was created after World War II to keep world peace?
United Nations
400
What was the title of the novel that exposed problems in the meatpacking industry?
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
400
What tragedy led to the passing of worker safety laws?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
400
Why did the U.S. join World War I?
German u-boat attacks on our shipping and the Zimmerman telegram
400
What term means the government spends more money than it receives in taxes?
Deficit Spending
400
What term means to limit the amount of goods an individual can purchase and was used during World War II to ensure our troops overseas were well-supplied?
Rationing
500
Identify two social reform movements that achieved reform by supporting a constitutional amendment.
Temperance Movement and Women's Suffrage Movement
500
What term means anti-immigrant feeling and why did it increase in the late 1800s?
Nativism, because new immigrants came from different cultures and held different religious beliefs
500
What caused the outbreak of World War I in Europe?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
500
Name two New Deal programs that still exist today.
Social Security and FDIC
500
Who was the wartime symbol of the importance of women's role in industry?