Changing Ideas
Political & Economics Rollercoaster
Is This Constitutional?
Exposing American Secrets
Should We or Should We Not?
100
A musical innovation that influenced popular culture in the 1920s.
Development of jazz
100
Finish this statement: After World War I, immigrants were treated with hostility and nativism because _____________.
They were suspected of political disloyalty, including spreading anarchist and communist ideas.
100
The battle of the American Revolution, which was known as "the turning point"
Battle of Saratoga
100
A way for factory owners to pay workers less money and to work in dangerous conditions and smaller spaces.
Child labor.
100
This 1898 action brought a series of Pacific islands under U.S. control after American business interests, such as sugar crops, and building a strategic harbor on the route to Asia.
Annexation of Hawaii
200
A woman who dressed with shorter dressed with a bobbed haircut.
Flapper
200
Various Americans, including immigrants, were arrested for suspicion of communist activities despite finding no evidence.
Palmer Raids
200
The five founding ideals that were sourced from the Mayflower Compact. (Name all five to get points).
Opportunity, Liberty, Democracy, Equality, & Rights
200
Many factory owners justified low wages, long hours, and poor working conditions during the Industrial Revolution as necessary to achieve this economic goal.
Maximizing profits.
200
This early 20th-century engineering project connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, greatly improving global trade routes but requiring major U.S. intervention in Panama and overcoming tropical disease and difficult terrain.
Building of the Panama Canal.
300
The court case that challenged traditionalism versus modernism by taking about teaching evolution in schools.
Scopes Trial
300
This action of many Americans contributed to the stock market crash in October 1929 leading to the Great Depression.
Investing in stocks with borrowed money/credit
300
Before the Civil War, the North was industrialized while the South relied on this to make money.
Agriculture and enslaved labor.
300
The act signed in 1830 to forcibly relocate Native Americans from the Southeast to Oklahoma resulting in the Trail of Tears.
Indian Removal Act.
300
One event that led the US to join World War I after being neutral.
Sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram.
400
A book by F. Scott Fitzgerald that is considered a significant portrayal of the Jazz Age, highlighting themes of wealth, social class, and the American Dream in post–World War I America.
The Great Gatsby.
400
In the 1920s, Presidents Harding and Coolidge biggest priority for the United States was this.
To be economically successful.
400
These two political groups debated the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, with one supporting a stronger national government and the other fearing it would threaten states' rights and individual liberties. (Hint: Two answers are needed.)
Federalists & Anti-Federalists
400
A 1906 book by Upton Sinclair that exposed the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
The Jungle.
400
This approach to politics and foreign policy focuses on practical national interests and power rather than moral goals or ideals.
Realism.
500
One way the 1920s transformed American popular culture.
1. Rise of consumerism; rise of the use of radio and advertising.
2. Changing social norms.
3. Questioning of traditional values.
4. Women gaining greater independence.
500
The true reason why Sacco & Vanzetti were convicted of murder in 1920 and executed in 1927.
1. Bias against their political views.
2. Being Italian immigrants.
500
This series of events in 1860–1861 saw Southern states do this following the election of Abraham Lincoln, ultimately leading to the formation of the Confederacy and the Civil War.
Seceding from the Union.
500
This 1850 agreement tried to settle arguments between the North and South over slavery by allowing California to enter as a free state and strengthening the Fugitive Slave Law.
Compromise of 1850.
500
This belief in pursuing high moral principles and promoting democratic values influences how individuals and governments make decisions about right and wrong.
Idealism.