Westward Expansion
This 1862 act encouraged westward migration by granting settlers 160 acres of public land.
What is the Homestead Act?
This era gets its name from a Mark Twain book suggesting a thin gold layer covering societal problems.
What is the Gilded Age?
This treaty officially ended WWI but imposed harsh penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The 18th Amendment prohibited alcohol, leading to secret bars known as these.
What are speakeasies?
This president is associated with the New Deal, which aimed to address the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
This term describes the belief that Americans were destined to expand westward to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This harsh name for leaders of industry, like Carnegie and Rockefeller, implies that they were exploitative or unfair.
What are Robber Barons?
The assassination of this archduke sparked the beginning of WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
These women challenged social norms by wearing short dresses and cutting their hair.
What are flappers?
This environmental disaster caused massive migration out of the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This major transportation project connected the eastern and western United States in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
These cramped and poorly maintained urban housing units were common for immigrants and the poor.
What are tenements?
These four trends that led to WWI's beginning are sometimes called "MAIN".
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This caused Germany to have many social and economic issues after WW1 (multiple answers).
These towns rapidly grew due to mining and were known for lawlessness and harsh living conditions.
What are boom towns?
This type of economics argues for minimal government interference in business.
What is Laissez-Faire economics?
This intercepted telegram proposed a German alliance with Mexico against the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
The increase in this led to more people moving up social classes in the 1920s.
This political ideology emphasizes authoritarian leadership, nationalism, and state control of industry.
These two groups often clashed over land use on the frontier, with one seeking grazing land for livestock and the other looking to extract resources from the earth.
What are cowboys and miners?
This movement aimed to address urban and industrial problems through social reform. (2 options)
What is Progressivism or the Social Gospel Movement?
These two alliances were the main opposing forces during WWI. Hint: the ______ Powers and the _______ Powers
What are the Allied Powers and the Central Powers?
The Stock Market Crash of October 29, 1929, is known as this.
What is Black Tuesday?
This Italian dictator led the fascist movement in Europe during the 1930s.
Who is (Benito) Mussolini?