Gilded/Progressive Eras
Immigration checkpoint for Europeans.
Ellis Island
Seller of Alaska
Russia
The U.S. was an _______ nation at the start of WWI.
Isolationist
True or False: The 1920s were a time of great economic growth and prosperity.
True
Controlled 90% of oil industry.
John D. Rockefeller
Secretary of State John Hay opened the door for trade in this country.
China
Name the two A's of MANIA.
Alliances and assassination
Music genre that originated from New Orleans' black community
Jazz
Another name for shantytowns
Hoovervilles
Plessy v. Ferguson established ______.
Separate but equal
Name all three areas the U.S. gained from the Spanish-American War.
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
Which of President Wilson's Fourteen Points was adopted by the Allied Powers?
League of Nations
Flappers were
Fashionable young women intent on enjoying themselves and challenging conventional standards of behavior.
Location of the Dust Bowl
Midwest/Great Plains/Central U.S.
Name a muckraker.
Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens
Supported Panamanian independence in order to build a waterway.
President Theodore Roosevelt
Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
Allied Powers: France, Great Britain, the Russian Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Belgium, and Serbia.
What is the term used to describe the law that made the production of alcohol illegal?
Prohibition
Deficit spend
Identify two goals of the Progressives.
Regulate big business, protect workers and consumers, expose corruption, promote social welfare, increase government involvement, break up trusts, etc.
Queen who was overthrown by American sugar planters.
Queen Liliuokalani
Coordinated the nation's industrial resources for the war effort.
War Industries Board
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
Nativism
Amount the FDIC insures bank savings today.
$250,000