Gilded age and Industrialization
What innovation made national markets possible and connected rural and urban America?
What are railroads?
What type of journalist exposed corruption in politics and business?
What is a muckraker?
What event prompted U.S. entry into WWI?
What is the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmermann Telegram?
What caused the Great Depression?
What are overproduction, stock speculation, and bank failures?
What event led the U.S. to enter WWII?
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
What labor event turned public opinion against unions due to a bombing?
What is the Haymarket Riot?
What reform movement aimed to reduce alcohol abuse and crime?
What is the temperance movement?
What were Wilson’s goals in the Fourteen Points?
What is to promote peace and prevent future wars?
What was the purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
To provide jobs for young men doing environmental work.
What was the Double V campaign?
A campaign for victory against fascism abroad and racism at home.
Which law aimed to break up monopolies and promote fair competition?
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Who founded Hull House and what was its purpose?
Who is Jane Addams, and it was a settlement house for the urban poor?
What was the U.S. foreign policy approach after WWI but before WWII?
What is isolationism?
What program provided pensions to the elderly and unemployment benefits?
What is the Social Security Act?
What was the Manhattan Project?
The U.S. secret program to develop the atomic bomb.
What is the name of Carnegie's philosophy encouraging the wealthy to give back?
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
What was the purpose of the Meat Inspection Act?
To ensure sanitary conditions in meatpacking plants.
What did the Lend-Lease Act do?
What is provide military aid to Allied countries before WWII?
What was the court-packing plan?
FDR's proposal to add justices to the Supreme Court to support his policies.
What was one effect of WWII on the U.S. economy?
It ended the Great Depression by creating jobs and boosting industry.
Name two ways industrialists justified their wealth and power in the Gilded Age.
What are Social Darwinism and laissez-faire capitalism?
Which constitutional amendment allowed for the direct election of senators?
What is the 17th Amendment?
What was the significance of the “Iron Curtain” speech?
It symbolized the division between democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe.
How did the New Deal change the role of the federal government?
It expanded the government’s responsibility for economic welfare.
What were two major U.S. military strategies during WWII?
What are island hopping and the D-Day invasion?