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100

What development connected the east and west, and fulfilled Manifest Destiny?

Transcontinental Railroad

100

Name given to investigative journalist during the progressive era who exposed corruption in society. 

Muckrakers

100

What was the MAIN reason that the United States joined World War 1?

German Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

100

What were the homeless villages that developed during the Great Depression called?

Hoovervilles

100

What were the 3 goals of the New Deal? (The three R's)

Relief, Recovery, Reform

200

Who controlled oil production and prices?

John Rockefeller

200

What was the name for the segregation laws in the south?

Jim Crow Laws

200

What act was passed by congress during World War 1 to silence critics of the war?

Espionage Act

200

Who was the Social Security Act intended to help?

The Elderly

200

What group was created by Wilson to prevent future wars from happening? (The US never joined)

The League of Nations

300

What did Thomas Edison begin building after his invention of the light bulb?

The electrical grid

300

What amendment gave citizens the right to directly elect their senators?

17th Amendment 

300

What was the era called in which Americans were afraid that communism would take over?

Red Scare

300

What New Deal program built dams to provide electricity to rural areas? Also benefitted Georgia.

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

300

Which president led the conservation movement?

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt 

400

Immigrants who came through Ellis Island typically came from where? (BE SPECIFIC)

Southern and Eastern Europe

400

Sensationalist journalism that led the United States into the Spanish-American war.

Yellow Journalism 

400

What promoted a national culture during the 1920's?

Mass media

400

What were the three main causes of the Great Depression?

O,U,S

Overproduction, Underconsumption, Speculation

400

Where did Immigrants who came through Angel Island Come from? Where did Immigrants who came through Ellis Island Come from?

Angel Island- Asia 

Ellis Island- Europe

500

What group organized peaceful collective bargaining for workers and businesses?

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

500

What was the name of the addition to the Monroe Doctrine by Teddy Roosevelt? It stated that if Europe intervened in Latin America, the US military would get involved.

Roosevelt Corollary

500

What did the following amendments do?

18th,19th,21st

18th- Banned alcohol

19th- Gave women the right to vote

21st- Ended prohibition 

500

What two groups did Eleanor Roosevelt advocate for?

African Americans and Women 

500

Economic expansion, spreading democracy, and spreading Christianity were the main arguments by Americans for what?

US Imperialism

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