Gilded Age
Jim Crow
Name given to the journalists, cartoonists, and photographers who exposed the corruption of corporations and political machines
Muckrakers
The ______ constitutional amendment ushered in Prohibition, which came to be associated with the culture of the 1920s.
18th
Attack on this naval base led to the U.S. entry into WWII
Pearl Harbor
Name of the generation of Americans born between 1946-1964
Baby Boomers
Robber Baron who controlled the oil industry in the U.S.
John Rockefeller
Author of The Jungle, which exposed disturbing conditions in meat packing facilities
Upton Sinclair
The Great Depression began in 1929 with a _________________ crash.
stock market
The U.S. interned ___________-Americans during World War II, placing them in camps for the duration of the war.
Japanese
Grand strategy adopted by President Truman and utilized throughout the Cold War by the U.S.
Containment
Railroad that led to the eradication of many Native American tribes, forcing them on to reservations.
Transcontinental Railroad
Theodore Roosevelt
The Immigration Act of 1924 created ___________ to restrict the number of immigrants entering the U.S., based on country of origin.
quotas
A Phillip Randolph led the March on ______________ Movement to demand an end to racial discrimination in the defense industry.
Washington
President associated with the Great Society and "War on Poverty"
Lyndon B. Johnson
The ______________ Exclusion Act is an example of a xenophobic (or nativist) law passed in the late 19th century.
Chinese
African American woman who led the antilynching campaign
Ida B. Wells
The ___________ was characterized by drought, high wind velocity, and the forced relocation of people to the west in the 1930s.
Dust Bowl
International organization that replaced the League of Nations at the end of World War II.
United Nations
1980s president who enacted major tax cuts and increased defense spending
Philosophy that justified a some portion of Americans controlling most of the countries wealth, while millions of others lived in poverty was called Social ___________________.
Darwinism
Asian country the U.S. colonized after defeating Spain in the Spanish-American War.
Phillippines
The _________________ was a period of intense fear and hysteria related to communism and anarchism, leading to nativist laws and raids after World War I.
Red Scare
Major battle where the Allies landed troops in Normandy, France. Largest amphibious invasion in history.
D-Day or Operation Overlord
The Mexican-American movement demanding equality that began in the 1960s.
Chicano Movement