Presidents
Political Changes
Social Changes
Economic Changes
Cause and Effect
100
The South seceded after this president was elected.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
This piece of legislation was passed after the book THE JUNGLE showed the U.S. the horrors of meat packing factories.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
100
Due to unfair wages and unhealthy working conditions, labor unions started encourage this sort of protest.
What is a strike?
100
During the U.S.'s Great Depression, the world economy suffered because this country could not pay its war debts.
What is Germany?
100
Due to this event, unemployment was the lowest it had ever been in U.S. history.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
200
This president was blamed for the Great Depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
200
Following the Civil War, these laws were put in place to make black and white society "separate, but equal".
What are Jim Crow Laws?
200
She was the most popular movie star of the Great Depression.
Who is Shirley Temple?
200
Big business men of the industrial age who helped the economy and gave to charity were called this.
What are captains of industry?
200
Due to Kennedy's interference with Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, this event occurred.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
This president started the New Deal, Manhattan Project, and Atlantic Charter.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
300
This was the name of Teddy Roosevelt’s imperialistic foreign policy which he used on Latin American Countries.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
300
This was the name of the event when thousands of mistreated African Americans moved from the southern states to the northern states.
What is the Great Migration?
300
During this era, people used too much credit which became one cause of the Great Depression.
What is the 1920s or Jazz Age?
300
Due to growing fears of immigrants and African Americans taking jobs, this group was able to grow in the 1920s.
What is the KKK?
400
This progressive president was a reformer who built national parks and broke up business trusts.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
Due to child labor and poor welfare, the government established this political office in 1912
What is the Children's Bureau?
400
During the industrial age, these poorly ventilated city buildings often housed multiple families in one room.
What are tenements?
400
This Amendment gave Congress the right to levy a progressive income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
400
Due to this invention, people started to move west more easily and spread throughout the territories.
What is the steam engine or railroad?
500
This president made a deal with Napoleon in order grow the U.S. territories.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
This is another name for FDR’s plan to replace all of the Supreme Court Judges who did not agree with him.
What is court packing?
500
This kind of newspaper propaganda was intended to create interest in the Spanish American War.
What is yellow journalism?
500
The want of raw materials for industrialization was one of the main causes of this period in history.
What is imperialism?
500
The succession of the South, the Civil War, and the poor treatment of African Americans post-Civil War could all have been avoided if this topic had been addressed by the writers of the Constitution.
What is slavery?
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