The Big Picture
"Lafayette, We Are Here"
Legal Eagles
America Overseas
Reforming Spirit
100

Between 1880 and 1920, the United States moved from an agricultural to THIS kind of nation.

industrial

100

In World War I American soldiers in France experienced this muddy and horrific kind of warfare.

trench warfare

100

This 1896 Supreme Court case made segregation of the races in public venues legal.

Plessy vs Ferguson

100

His foreign policy was "speak softly and carry a big stick." 

Theodore Roosevelt

100

She advocated birth control so that a woman could be "the absolute mistress of her own body."

Margaret Sanger

200

In the 1920s my assembly line technology dramatically increased production in many industries.

Henry Ford

200

In World War II, the D-Day invasion was launched from Britain to this part of France.

Normandy

200

In 1944, the Supreme Court ruling in Korematsu v the United States made THIS illegal. 

Interning Japanese Americans

200
This major construction project connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in 1914.

Panama Canal

200

FDR's "Alphabet Soup" agencies (CCC, TVA, WPA) were intended to provide jobs during this crisis.

The Great Depression

300
The United States moved from a debtor to a creditor nation as a result of this war.

World War I

300

Wilson's post World War I idealism was expressed in this document.  

Fourteen Points

300

FDR's frustration with the Supreme Court overturning his reform laws led to his attempt to DO THIS

Pack the Court

300

The United States gained Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam as a result of this war.

Spanish American War

300

Hull House was her attempt to improve the lives and chances of the immigrant community.

Jane Addams

400

The Square Deal, the New Nationalism, and THIS all expanded the role of the federal government in American life.

the New Deal

400

In August 1944, the liberation of this city triggered major celebrations worldwide.

Paris

400

This 1925 case put a high school teacher on trial for teaching evolution.

The Scopes Trial

400

In 1939, FDR said the US was not being asked to send troops to fight Hitler, but instead should act as THIS

arsenal for democracy

400

She wrote an expose about the evils of lynching.

Ida B. Wells

500

The US became a world power in the two world wars, but the American people's resistance to entry is known as

Isolationism

500

The Treaty that ended World War I, but which the US Senate did not ratify.

Versailles Treaty

500

This Amendment guaranteed woman's suffrage.

The Nineteenth Amendment

500

This top-secret program was responsible for V-J Day and ending World War II.

The Manhattan Project

500

His strategy for African American advancement was to cultivate "the talented tenth."

W.E.B. Dubois

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