It Has Been Said and Written (Terms and Documents in History)
The Builders (Industrial/Technological Advancements)
To War! To War! (Battles in History)
Back in My Decade (What Decade it Happened)
100
By the end of the 19th Century, immigrants of this nationality were shunned for their practices in the Catholic religion.
What are the Irish?
100
The 18th Amendment of the Constitution, made into effect in 1920, prohibited the sale, manufacture and distribution of this substance.
What is alcohol?
100
While this process has already existed, we credit Henry Ford for its perfection.
What is the assembly line?
100
"To the Congress of the United States: Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy...". Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered this speech urging the United States to participate in this worldwide conflict.
What is World War II?
100
The country's worst economic downturn in history.
What are the 1930s?
200
In 1942, fearing Japanese-American loyalty, executive order was passed which forced them to stay in these.
What are internment camps?
200
Written in 1906 by Upton Sinclair, this story exposed the scandal and neglect within the meat packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
200
Franklin D. Roosevelt often spoke to his citizens during the Great Depression through one of these.
What is the radio?
200
The media's "yellow journalism", creating controversy regarding the USS Maine's destruction in 1898, had the United States enter this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
200
Television became the primary household medium.
What is the 1950s?
300
This act was passed to assimilate Native Americans into Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture, offering them land and citizenship, so long as they did so as individuals and left their tribe.
What is the Dawes Act?
300
This French term defined the federal government's take of a "hands-off" approach towards business practices.
What is Laissez-faire?
300
This household electronic was first commercialized in the 1920s, but only started growing in popularity during the 1940s.
What is the television?
300
"The Forgotten War"
What is the Korean War?
300
Civil rights became society's primary movement.
What are the 1960s?
400
This political figure became widely popular in the 1950s, and accused a large amount of people of being communist spies or sympathizers.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
400
Made into effect by President Chester Arthur, this document required testing for hiring citizens into government positions through individual merit.
What is the Pendelton Act?
400
Chinese immigrants were the primary labor during the period of Manifest Destiny, when we built these.
What are railroads?
400
This war introduced a new, and more gruesome, face of war. Trenches were made to avoid advanced artillery, and no soldier could be salvaged from "no man's land".
What is World War I?
400
Women began breaking the public norm: working, dressing more loosely, and dancing without a man.
What are the 1920s?
500
This act, passed in 1882, prevented the migration of Asian immigrants into the United States, and prevented immigrants in the United States from obtaining citizenship.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
Popular in southern states, these attempted to restrain the rights of negros. Primarily, they legalized the segregation of the majority of facilities.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
500
To keep Jones Beach State Park as the "perfect vacation spot", Robert Moses built these so only the upper class could travel.
What are parkways?
500
The acquisition of Spanish territories at the end of the 19th Century forced the United States into this conflict in the Pacific.
What is the Philippine-American War?
500
Yellow journalism was put in every newspaper - pictures all over the pages, and language was "dumbed down" for the lower classes and immigrants to "understand" the articles.