Gilded Age
What 2 immigrant groups worked on the transcontinental railroad?
Who are Chinese and Irish Immigrants?
Name for a reporter that exposes government corruption and the abuses of big businesses?
What is a muckracker?
Cause of the Spanish American War, exaggerated reporting. Reported that Spain was responsible for the explosion of the USS Maine.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This warfare helped caused the war to be a stalemate. No more head to head combat.
What is the trenches?
What is red scare?
Law that increased tariffs in the 1920s.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
Caused Britain and France to join the war.
What is Germany invading Poland?
First time the government prohibited immigration based on race or ethnicity. Wanted to limit unskilled workers and not compete for jobs.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What amendment calls for the direct election of Senators?
What is the 17th Amendment?
Why is the Spanish American War considered a turning point for the US in 1898?
What is US becomes a world power with an oversee empire?
Reason for US entry in WWI, Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico. If Mexico became an ally of Germany they would help them get back lost territory.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram/Note?
Name two effects/benefits of Henry Ford's assembly line method of producing cars.
What are increased production, lowered cost of cars, more Americans buy cars, economic boom of 1920s, and assembly lines methods used in other industries?
Caused by poor farming practices, high winds, and drought. Led to increased migration west to California. Depopulation of the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Battle in which the allies caused Germany to fight on multiple fronts.
What is the Battle of Normandy or D-Day?
What is the name for the type of business that takes over an entire industry by eliminating their competition?
What is a monopoly?
Passed during Wilson's Presidency, puts banks under federal government control.
Name 3 territories the US gained in the Pacific Ocean? Pacific acquisitions. Wanted for their strategic location to help military and commerce (business)
What are Guam, Philippines, and Hawaii?
Daily Double- When is the US History STAAR exam?
What is April 14th?
What did we see a rise in as a result of the ratification of the 18th Amendment?
What is organized crime/ the mafia?
Name for FDR's program to combat the Great Depression? Focused on 3 R's relief, recovery, reform.
The New Deal
Caused the US to enter the war.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
These were formed to fight for the rights of workers. Wanted better pay and working condition. Also wanted to end the use of child labor.
What are labor unions?
What are the effects of the local and state law making reforms initiative, referendum, and recall?
What is direct democracy? People participating in government. POWER to the people.
Foreign policy that ensured equal trading with China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
What legislation violated the 1st Amendment by limiting free speech?
What is the Espionage Act?
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
New Deal Agency that helped elderly and disabled people.
What is the Social Security Act?
Ended WWII in the Pacific Front
What is the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The name of Andrew Carnegie's book that encouraged philanthropy?
What is The Gospel of Wealth?
What legislation was passed as Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal to protect the food safety of Americans. Passed as a result of Upton Sinclair's the Jungle.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act
Foreign policy that made the US an international police power in Latin America. Addition to the Monroe Doctrine.
What is Roosevelt Corollary/Big Stick Policy?
Which government house opposed the US joining the League of Nations because it would take away US sovereignty in foreign affairs? Believed the US might get drawn into future conflicts.
What is the US Senate?
Presidential scandal that caused distrust in the government during the 1920s. Illegal oil leases of federal government land.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Name for FDR's attempt to weaken the Judicial Branch and strengthen the Executive Branch by adding 6 new justices to the Supreme Court?
What is the court-packing scheme?
After World War II, two countries entered the Cold War pitting communism and democracy against one another.
What is the USSR and the United States?