Civics & American Ideals
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
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Writers who exposed corruption in American society, they showed people the "smelly" sides of America.
The name given to "colorful" journalism that exaggerates and sensationalizes stories.
What is Yellow Journalism?
America's stance on World War I at the beginning of the war.
What is Neutral?
This term described the liberated young women of the 1920s who bobbed their hair, wore short skirts, listened to jazz, and challenged traditional gender norms.
What is the flapper?
The first three words in the Preamble to the Constitution that explains that citizens hold the Government's power.
What is "We the people"?
Law passed by President Roosevelt after reading a "Beefy" book by Upton Sinclair, that was supposed to protect citizen's dinner plates.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This president who is the face of the 500 dollar bill asked Congress to declare war on Spain in 1898.
Who is William McKinley?
The use of submarines to sink without warning any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger lines) found in an enemy’s waters.
What is Unrestricted German Submarine Warfare?
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In 1925, this trial was about a high school teacher who was prosecuted in Tennessee for teaching evolution, it pitted lawyers William Jennings Bryan against Clarence Darrow.
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Considered the author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
The famous muckraker Upton Sinclair wrote this book about the Chicago meat packing industry that sparked the passing of the Meat Inspection Act and the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.
What is the Jungle?
This policy, articulated by Secretary of State John Hay around 1900, sought equal trading rights for all nations in China and helped establish America as a Pacific power.
What is the Open Door Policy?
The purpose of the Committee of Public Information, led by journalist George Creel, who used posters, films, and "Four Minute Men" speakers.
What was to produce propaganda in support of WWI?
This "colorful" term describes the intense fear of communism that gripped America in the 1900s, leading to widespread fear of immigrants from Russia.
What was the Red Scare?
This amendment guarantees citizens the right to a speedy trial, the right to a jury of their peers, the right to have a lawyer defend them.
What is the 6th Amendment?
This New York clothing factory accident led to more workers safety laws.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Filipino rebel leader who helped the US defeat the Spanish and later fought against the US attempting to free his people from foreign rule.
One of President Wilson's 14 points that was his highest priority that would hopefully prevent another World War.
What is the League of Nations?
This 1921 act limited immigration to 3% of each nationality present in the 1910 census, drastically reducing arrivals from Southern and Eastern Europe.
What was the Emergency Quota Act?
The basic belief outlined in the Declaration of Independence that states the main idea the founding fathers wanted the new Government to make sure happened in our country.
What is that all men are created equal?
The idea that the lessons of Christianity should be applied to fix the social problems of slums and poor factory conditions.
The statement that declared Cuba a U.S. protectorate which allowed the United States to hold influence there.
What is the Platt Amendment?
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This board, led by Bernard Baruch, coordinated American industrial production and set prices for war materials during WWI.
This 1920s "tea time" scandal involved Interior Secretary Albert Fall secretly leasing naval oil reserves in Wyoming to private companies in exchange for bribes.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?