Reconstruction
Western Expansion
Industrial America
1920s/1930s
WWII
Progressive Era
Imperialism
WWI
100

This Amendment Ended Slavery in the U.S. making it illegal to own another human being. (Hint: Which amendment?)

What is the 13th Amendment?

100

Promised settlers 160 acres for free if they farmed it for five years.

What is The Homestead Act?

100

Located in New York Harbor, it was the main point of entry into the U.S. for immigrants (mainly from Europe) from 1892 to 1954. 

What is Ellis Island?

100

The President who created the New Deal 

FDR

100

The event that directly led the U.S. to enter WWII.

Pearl Harbor 


100

The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act were passed by Congress after President Teddy Roosevelt read_________ by ________

What is THE JUNGLE by UPTON SINCLAIR?


100

American naval vessel that was sunk by the Spanish in Havana Harbor Cuba; started the Spanish American War.

What is USS Maine?


100

The two alliances to start WWI.

What is the Central Powers, (Germany and Austria-Hungary, joined by Ottoman Turkey) and Entente Powers, (Britain, France, Russia and later Italy)?


200

The ______________  __________plan wanted to give freed slaves homesteads, economic independence, and the right to vote. (Hint: This plan wanted to punish the South.)

Who were the Radical Republicans?


200

Changed life on the Great Plains by fencing off land which impacted the nomadic life of the Plains Indians.

What is Barbed Wire?


200

Reduced the cost of making steel by more than 80% while also making it stronger and more durable. 

What is Bessemer Process?


200

The nickname for shantytowns that emerged during the Great Depression.

Hoovervilles

200

The U.S. response act that allowed sending weapons to Allied nations before joining the war.

Lend-Lease Act

200

Journalists, photographers, and authors who published their work in order to raise awareness of social issues and injustices.

What is a muckraker?

200

A technique for selling more newspapers by sensationalizing and distorting the facts in stories written.

What is Yellow Journalism?


200

A policy of not choosing sides in a conflict; it was the reason the U.S. was slow to enter World War I.

What is neutrality?

300

All people born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens; all citizens have equal protection under the law. (Hint: Which amendment?)

What is the 14th Amendment?

300

Crazy Horse fought General Custer killing him and 300 soldiers. It was one of the last Native American victories over U.S. troops.

What is the Battle of Little Big Horn? 


300

Thomas Edison invented ________

Henry Ford invented _____


What is commercially available incandescent Light Bulb?

What is the Model T


300

The environmental disaster that forced many farmers to migrate westward.

Dust Bowl 


300

The axis powers in WWII and their leaders

Adolf Hitler-Germany 

Benito Mussolini- Italy

Hideki Tojo - Japan 


300

This amendment provided for the direct election of Senators.

What is the 17th amendment?


300

Spanish Ambassador wrote that the President of the United States was ,"weak" indicating that the Spanish were not being truthful with Cuba of the U.S. 

What is The De Lome Letter?

300

A coded message sent by the German Foreign Minister to Mexico proposing a military alliance against the U.S.

What is the Zimmerman Note, (Telegram).


400

A welfare agency created to provide aid, school, healthcare, and clothing to poor whites and newly freed slaves

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

400

Threatened the survival of Indian culture.

A law that let the federal government divide up reservations (land that belonged to Native American tribes), and give pieces of them to individual Native Americans instead.

What is the Dawes Act?

400

A Captain of Industry who wrote the book, "The Gospel of Wealth" and made his fortune in the steel industry.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?


400

A cultural and artistic explosion of African American talent in Harlem, New York.

Harlem Rennaissance 

400

The project that developed the atomic bomb in the U.S.

Manhattan Project 


400

Taken together, these increased the power of voters in the political process.

What is initiative, recall, and referendum?

400

Built to shorten the distance that ships had to travel to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

What is the Panama Canal?

400

The widespread migration of millions of African Americans from the South to the North and West during the 20th century.

What is the Great Migration?


500

Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War intended to deny former slaves their full civil rights.

What are Black Codes?


500

The last major conflict between the U.S. Army and Native Americans in which an overwhelming force of U.S. soldiers killed over 200 men, women, and children of the Lakota Indians. (Hint: Ghost Dance)

What is Wounded Knee?

500

Banned this group of laborers from immigrating to the U.S. for ten years because their efforts to build the railroad in the West created anger in white laborers.

What led to the Chinese Exclusion Act?

500

The controversial trial that debated evolution vs. creationism in schools.

Scopes Trial 


500

The name of the day Allied troops invaded Normandy, France.

D-Day 

500

Civil rights group founded in 1909 that works to end racial discrimination.

What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

500

A one-sided deal between the U.S. and Cuba that gave the U.S. legal control over the island's economic and foreign policy in order to protect U.S. interests in the Caribbean.

What is the Platt Amendment?

500

Brought an end to WWI. 

Imposed harsh penalties on Germany including losing much of its territory, signing a War Guilt Clause and required to pay large reparations.

What is The Treaty of Versailles?


600

President Johnson was impeached because he violated __________.

What was the Tenure of Office Act.


600

Transported raw materials used in industrial production, such as coal and iron ore

Were also one of the largest consumers of raw materials in their own

Connected the East Coast with the West Coast 

What is the railroad industry?


600

This California based immigration center processed immigrants arriving mainly from Asia.

What is Angel Island?

600

The program that established retirement pensions and unemployment benefits.

Social Security 

600

Executive Order that allowed for Japanese Internment Camps in the U.S.

9066

600

Laws in the South based on race. They enforced segregation between white people and colored (predominantly black) people in public places such as schools.

What are Jim Crow laws?


600

A foreign policy statement by Teddy Roosevelt in 1904 that claimed the right of the United States to intervene in the domestic affairs of Western Hemisphere nations to maintain stability.

What is the Roosevelt Corollary?

600

An international peacekeeping organization that was part of President Wilson Fourteen Points.

It would be rejected by the U.S. Senate 

What is The League of Nations?

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