Rise of Industrialization (1877-1900)
This 1862 law gave free land to settlers willing to farm it for five years.
The Homestead Act
This belief applied “survival of the fittest” to justify wealth inequality.
Social Darwinism
This type of journalism exaggerated stories to push the U.S. toward war.
Yellow journalism
This migration saw African Americans move from the South to Northern cities.
The Great Migration
This 1929 event marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
Stock Market Crash
This railroad connected the East and West coasts, speeding settlement and trade.
Transcontinental railroad
This leader promoted gradual economic progress for Black Americans through vocational education.
Booker T. Washington
This war began after tensions involving Cuba and the explosion of the USS Maine.
The Spanish-American War
These illegal bars flourished during Prohibition.
Speakeasies
These shantytowns were built by homeless Americans during the Depression.
Hoovervilles
This policy broke up tribal lands into individual plots to encourage assimilation.
Dawes Act
This labor tactic involves workers refusing to work to demand better conditions.
a strike
This message from Germany to Mexico helped push the U.S. into WWI.
The Zimmerman Telegram
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature.
Harlem Renaissance
This program provided jobs for young men doing environmental work.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
This Supreme Court case upheld segregation under “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
This 1890 law was designed to break up monopolies and trusts.
Sherman Antitrust Act
This form of warfare involved soldiers fighting from deep trenches with little movement.
Trench Warfare
This famous 1925 trial debated evolution vs. creationism.
Scopes Trial
This New Deal program provided financial support to the elderly.
Social Security
This 1877 agreement ended Reconstruction and led to the rise of Jim Crow laws.
Compromise of 1877
This Progressive president promoted the Square Deal and trust-busting policies.
Theodore Roosevelt
This plan by President Wilson proposed peace terms after WWI.
The Fourteen Points
This set of laws in the 1920s sharply limited immigration by establishing quotas based on national origin, favoring immigrants from Northern and Western Europe.
Immigration Quota Acts / National Origins Act
This controversial plan involved adding more justices to the Supreme Court.
FDR's court-packing plan