Industrial leaders often eliminated competition by creating this business model that controls an entire business segment
What is a monopoly?
100
Colorful term for sensational headlines, graphic pictures, and and exaggerated stories to persuade readers:
What is Yellow Journalism?
100
This aspect of the 1920s was a result of passage of the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act:
What is Prohibition?
100
FDR's plan for job relief, economic recovery, and reform
What is the New Deal?
200
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution
What is increased legal protection for former slaves?
200
To combat unfair business practices like monopolies, the U.S. government passed this law.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
200
In which war did the United States acquire Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
What is the Spanish-American War?
200
If you were a young woman in the 1920s, you might have worn your dress short, your hair shorter, and likely partied at speakeasies and would be known as a
What is a flapper?
200
This is what the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation intended to do:
What is protect bank deposits for consumers
300
These rules in Mississippi continued the economic and social restrictions previously placed on slaves
What is the Black Codes?
300
Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Jacob Riis were all activist journalists known by this "stable" term:
What are muckrakers?
300
The United States finally joined World War I because of the interception of this document.
What is the Zimermann Telegram?
300
The prevailing economic theory of the 1920s was to remain less involved in the market. This "hands-off" approach is often referred to as
What is laissez-faire economics?
300
FDR's New Deal cost a lot of money, this required spending more money than the government brought in called:
What is deficit spending?
400
This General Allotment Act in 1887 was an attempt to assimilate native Americans by turning them into farmers
What is the Dawes Act?
400
Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul were among leaders of this movement to get the 19th Amendment passed.
What is Women's Suffrage?
400
Around the time of World War I, African-Americans and Mexicans moved North looking for jobs and better opportunities
What is the Great Migration?
400
Buy now and pay later is the idea behind this method for buying consumer goods:
What is installment buying?
400
FDR's plan to upset the balance of federal power with 15 Supreme Court Justices
What is Packing the Court?
500
This group provided the workforce that allowed the United States to become an industrialized nation?
What are immigrants?
500
This President is known for his fondness of the phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick. You will go far."
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
500
This U.S. President drafted a list of 14 Points as a plan for world peace
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
500
Many workers were lured to labor unions and organized movements through the principles of:
What are communism and socialism?
500
Which law was intended to reverse the effects of the Dust Bowl?