EARLY AMERICA & EXPANSION
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
What is a company that controls an entire industry called?
Monopoly/Trust
What event helped bring the U.S. into WWI by encouraging Mexico to attack the U.S. by Germany?
Zimmermann Telegram
What event caused the Great Depression to begin?
Stock Market Crash 1929
What policy aimed to stop the spread of communism?
Containment
What purchase doubled the size of the United States under Thomas Jefferson?
The Louisiana Purchase
What are overcrowded city apartments called?
Tenements
What law punished people for speaking against the government during WWI?
Sedition Act
What was the name for makeshift housing for the homeless?
Hoovervilles/Shantytowns
What Supreme Court case ended school segregation?
Brown v. Board
What belief justified U.S. expansion across the continent?
Manifest Destiny
What was the purpose of labor unions?
Improve wages and working conditions
What cultural movement celebrated African American art in the 1920s?
Harlem Renaissance
What order led to Japanese American internment camps?
Executive Order 9066
What law protected African American voting rights?
Voting Rights Act 1965
What was the first governing document of the colonies?
The Mayflower Compact
What tragedy exposed unsafe factory conditions in 1911?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Which amendment banned alcohol in the 1920s?
18th
What was the Allied invasion of France called?
D- Day
What scandal led to President Nixon’s resignation?
Watergate Scandal
What law gave free land to settlers willing to move west?
Homestead Act
What law limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States in the 1920s?
Quota Act
What court case showed conflict between teaching of modern science and traditional religious beliefs in the 1920s?
Scopes Trial
What New Deal program created a system that provides financial support to the elderly and unemployed?
Social Security Act
What law was passed after 9/11 that expanded government surveillance to prevent terrorism?
Patriot Act