This type of journalism lead to the outrage over the USS Maine, causing the Spanish American War
What is Yellow Press?
100
The attack on this luxury liner by German U-Boats was an example of the actions that turned the US against the Germans.
What is the Lusitania Sinking?
100
This was what ended WWI and created the conditions for WWII by its harsh treatment of Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
100
This act provided the enforcement for the 18th Amendment, but was ineffective at stopping the drinking culture of the 1920's.
What is the Volstead Act?
100
This is another name for a Shantytown.
What is a Hooverville?
200
This was the economic goal of the US as it engaged in imperialism
What are New Markets?
200
This act was the primary way the US increased the size of its army in preparation for WWI.
What is the Selective Service Act?
200
This plan from Woodrow Wilson was an attempt to keep future peace by preventing reasons for conflict.
What are the Fourteen Points?
200
This was the result of improved mass production and increased wages, plus the creation of new modern products.
What is a Consumer Revolution?
200
This is the name for the day when the stock market bubble burst and much wealth was lost.
What is Black Tuesday?
300
This part of the US's treaty with Cuba showed how the US would continue to influence countries in the America's
What is the Platte Amendment?
300
This government agency was responsible for getting US citizens behind the war effort and its sacrifices.
What is the Committee of Public Information?
300
This last point of the Fourteen was designed to allow for peaceful resolution of conflicts.
What is the League of Nations?
300
This African American leader differed from previous leaders like WEB Dubois in his opinion that blacks should create separate communities.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
300
This was the primary effect of the Depression that led to many losing all of their possessions, and was the main thing that New Deal programs tried to fix
What is Unemployment?
400
This foreign policy strategy from Teddy Roosevelt was best exemplified by the Great White Fleet.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
400
This act made it a crime to say negative things toward the war or the government.
What is the Espionage Act?
400
The US Senate voted against joining the League of Nations out of fear for becoming involved in this continent's political problems?
What is Europe?
400
This Harlem Renaissance writer is most famous for her folktales about growing up in rural Florida.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
400
This environmental catastrophe hurt farmers even more and force many to travel from the Plains to California to find work.
What is the Dust Bowl?
500
This foreign policy strategy by William Howard Taft used economic investment to influence other countries.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
500
These two Italian immigrants were a prime example of the Red Scare and the persecution of those who were different.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
500
This pact signed in the late 1920's was another attempt to end war as a way to settle disputes.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
500
This religious attitude was a reaction to the loosening of social morals that occurred during the 1920's
What is Fundamentalism?
500
This financing option allowed people to afford consumer goods that were not ordinarily available to most, but was a primary cause of the Great Depression.