Great Depression
This 1929 event is widely seen as the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This nickname was given to the 1920s because of major cultural, musical, and economic growth.
What is the Roaring Twenties?
This term describes a stronger nation taking political or economic control over a weaker territory.
What is imperialism?
In 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This term refers to the shift from handmade goods to machine-produced goods that began in the late 1700s.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This U.S. president created the New Deal to combat the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
This famous trial in 1925 debated science vs. religion by challenging a Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution.
What was the Scopes “Monkey” Trial?
This 1898 conflict marked the beginning of America’s emergence as an overseas imperial power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine in 1776, argued that the colonies should break away from Britain and helped inspire support for independence.
What is Common Sense?
This power source-used in early factories-allowed machines to run faster and more efficiently than water wheels.
What is the steam engine?
This severe drought in the Great Plains forced thousands of families—called “Okies”—to migrate west to California.
What was the Dust Bowl?
This movement of African American artistic, musical, and literary creativity was centered in New York City.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
This future U.S. state was taken over after American sugar planters overthrew Queen Liliʻuokalani in 1893.
What is Hawaii?
Adopted in 1781, this first U.S. governing document created a weak national government with no power to tax.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This term describes the rapid movement of people from rural farms to cities for factory jobs.
What is urbanization?
This term refers to the burst of legislation passed during the beginning of FDR’s presidency to fight the Great Depression.
What are the First 100 Days?
This 1920s system of buying stocks with borrowed money contributed to the eventual stock market crash.
What is buying on credit? (Installment act)
Germany used this aggressive naval strategy during World War I, sinking ships without warning—including civilian vessels like the Lusitania.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and banned slavery north of 36°30′.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This 1882 law greatly restricted immigration from a specific Asian country, reflecting rising nativism during rapid industrial growth.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This piece of New Deal legislation created a government insurance program for retirement, unemployment, and disability benefits.
What is the Social Security Act of 1935?
This restriction limited immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and reflected growing nativist attitudes in the 1920s.
What was the Immigration Act of 1924
This policy announced by Secretary of State John Hay aimed to keep China open to all nations for trade, preventing any single power from controlling it.
What was the Open Door Policy?
This 1846–1848 conflict resulted in the U.S. acquiring vast territories in the Southwest through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, intensifying debates over the expansion of slavery.
What was the Mexican-American War?
Founded in Chicago in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, this settlement house provided services like childcare, education, and job training to help recent immigrants and the urban poor.
What is Hull House?