Industrial Revolution
In the 19th Century the United States was being transformed into what sort of power?
Political machines provided people in the cities with necessities like jobs, housing and police protection in exchange for what?
Votes
The Scopes "Monkey" Trial was centered around the teaching of what in the classroom?
Progressives believed that this institution could solve social problems like poverty, disease, and crime.
The Government.
This event touched off the first declaration of war at the start of World War I
The assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary.
When a single company achieves control of an entire market, it is known as?
Monopoly
During the immigration period for the first time in our country's history more Americans lived in ______ than in ________ areas?
Rural / Cities
Cities, Rural
Name and describe ONE cause of the Great Depression.
1) overproduction of consumer goods
2) Instability of the banking sector
3) Agricultural depression
4) Stock market crash
Which president was known for his progressive policies, conservationism and trust busting?
Teddy Roosevelt
Why did the Germans sink the Lusitania which helped drive the Americans to war with Germany.
They thought they were carrying ammunition and war supplies.
Why did factory owners hire children as workers?
Children are easier to control.
Most immigrants entered the United States on the East Coast through which immigrant processing center?
Ellis Island
To create new consumers for their new products in the 1920's, manufacturers turned __________ to get people interested in buying their products.
What was the term labor unions used to describe the basic issues workers wanted to advocate for?
Bread-and-butter issues.
BONUS POINTS:
What are those bread-and-butter issues?
Name ONE innovation in weopons that turned World War 1 into trench warfare.
1) Machine guns
2) Deadlier artillery
3) Barbed wire
Which factor leading to industrialization was not influenced by government policies?
abundant natural resources
By the 1890s, more than half of all immigrants coming to the United States were?
Eastern and Southern Europe
The Great Migration was a mass migration of which group of people from the South to Northern cities looking for work.
BONUS POINTS: What was the name of the African American artistic movement that emerged in Harlem, New York City during the Great Migration?
African Americans
Progressives had a strong faith in these two things:
Science and technology
What was the purpose of the Committee on Public Information (CPI)?
To create and distribute pro-war propaganda.
What are the four factors of industrialization?
High Tariffs
Abundant natural resources
Cheap immigrant labor
Network of transportation and communication
What was the difference between the "Old" and "New" Immigrants?
New immigrants were Catholic rather than Protestant, usually did not speak English and did not assimilate to the dominant American culture.
What was the goal of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Public Works Administration (PWA)?
To create jobs for the unemployed.
What is "Trust Busting"?
The government policy of breaking up bigger businesses and monopolies.
What was the purpose of the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
To crackdown on anti-war and anti-patriotic speech and suspected German espionage.