INDUSTRIALIZATION & URBANIZATION
The late-1800s growth of cities was largely caused by this economic change that created factory jobs.
What is industrialization?
Many immigrants arriving in the late 1800s and early 1900s settled in cities looking for this.
What are jobs?
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This economic crisis began after the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
Germany’s use of this naval policy/strategy helped push the U.S. into World War I.
What is unrestricted U-boat, or submarine, warfare?
What trend, or process, shows the increase of Americans living in cities increasing from 1830 to 1950.
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What is urbanization?
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe mainly because of fear of this.
What is cultural diversity, or loss of traditional "American" values?
A school like the Carlisle Indian School aimed to force Native American students to do this.
What is assimilate into American culture?
One major cause of the Great Depression was banks making these dangerous decisions.
What are risky loans?
The U.S. entered World War II largely to stop the spread of this political ideology.
What is fascism?
Crowded tenement housing in cities led reformers to push for these government actions during the Progressive Era.
What are housing and labor reforms?
African Americans moved north during the early 1900s in a movement known as this.
What is the Great Migration?
The Scopes Monkey Trial symbolized tension between modern science and this belief system.
What is religious fundamentalism?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to restore confidence through speeches known as these.
What are Fireside Chats?
This military strategy involved capturing islands as the U.S. advanced toward Japan in WWII.
What is island hopping?
Workers moved from rural farms to cities primarily to work in these workplaces.
What are factories?
The Red Summer of 1919 was caused in part by racial violence against African Americans returning from this global conflict.
What is World War I?
Despite reform efforts, this violent event shows that the 1920s were not equally prosperous for all Americans.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
Programs like the FDIC, SEC, and Social Security were created to do this.
What is reform the economy to prevent future economic crises?
Japanese American incarceration, or internment, during WWII forced families to give up this.
What are their homes, businesses, and freedom?
This era, or time period, of American history was marked by great wealth for industrialists alongside corruption and poor working conditions.
What is the Gilded Age?
Both the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and the Great Migration were responses to this ongoing issue in the South.
What is racial discrimination?
Women and minority groups during the Great Depression often experienced higher levels of this compared to other Americans.
What is unemployment and poverty?
The continued distribution of Social Security benefits today shows this lasting impact of the New Deal.
What is the continued influence of New Deal reform programs?
President Truman approved atomic bombs mainly because he feared this outcome of a land invasion of Japan.
What are massive American and Japanese casualties (dead and wounded)?