Economic Highs to Lows
This is the event that kickstarted the Great Depression.
What is the Wall Street Stock Market Crash?
The Gilded Age/Industrial Age brought about this right for workers to bargain for better wages.
What is unionizing?
The belief that powered the US to begin taking over the western part of the US and become an imperialist power.
What is Manifest Destiny? (God-Given Destiny)
The major economic systems at the heart of the Cold War.
What are Capitalism and Communism?
Who was Lucy Mercer to Franklin D. Roosevelt?
What is his mistress?
This president did such a bad job handling the Great Depression that the shanty towns formed during the Great Depression were named after him.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Indigenous Americans suffered a major blow to their civil rights thanks to Andrew Jackson, who forced them on this trail, forcing them out of their homes and into reservations out west.
What is the Trail of Tears?
True or False: After WW1, the US began to isolate itself from foreign affairs, even signing a pact that "outlawed" war.
True. The policy was called Isolationism.
The US and Soviet Union both kept creating nuclear weapons in an attempt to gain more than each other. What is this called?
What is the Arms Race?
The 1918 Flu mirrors this event from your lives.
What is the Coronavirus Pandemic?
Speakeasies were responses to this policy. They were hidden places that indulged in what was now outlawed.
What is Prohibition/18th Amendment?
During WW2, the US committed a huge infringement on Japanese Americans' civil rights, forcing them into these in the name of "protecting America from spies".
What is internment camps?
Teddy Roosevelt as president practiced Big Stick diplomacy, which utilized this to intimidate other countries into negotiations.
What is the military?
During the war, fears of communism led to this, a time when people reported each other for suspected Soviet sympathizing.
What is McCarthyism and the Red Scare?
Name one way African Americans were prevented from voting in the south.
What are Grandfather Clauses, Poll Taxes, and Literacy Tests?
While the New Deal helped take us out of the Great Depression, this worldwide event brought in a huge demand for workers and able-bodied people.
What is WW2?
Starting in the 1910s, African Americans moved out of the South looking for economic opportunities and better rights in what became known as this.
What is the Great Migration?
After WW1, Woodrow Wilson led the effort to make this organization. However, it failed and fell apart because the US did not join it.
What is the League of Nations?
18 year olds have the right to vote because they protested the fact that they were drafted to fight in this war but could not vote to end the unpopular war.
What is the Vietnam War?
These two states are the only ones to have fought a conflict between states before the Civil War. Their conflict was in 1835. This mutual dislike continues into a huge sports rivalry nowadays.
Who are Ohio and Michigan?
At the worst point in the depression, the unemployment rate reached this all time high.
What is 25%?
Prohibition was directly tied to this civil right gained in 1920. Those fighting for that civil right also fought for prohibition, as alcohol consumption was a big issue for them because they felt the consequences even though they didn't drink.
What is voting rights for women?
Name one territory that the US gained through its imperialist conquests.
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, or the Philippines?
How many communist countries exist today?
What is 5? (Vietnam, China, North Korea, Laos, and Cuba.)
He is the only president to have resigned from the presidency.
Who is Richard Nixon?