UHS 6
This Scottish-born industrialist led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This 1898 war resulted in the U.S. acquiring the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This 1917 law imposed penalties for anti-war speech during World War I.
What is the Espionage Act?
This economic policy, also called "trickle-down economics," was defined by which President
Reagan
He became the first African American president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
This term describes journalists who exposed corruption and social injustice during the Gilded Age.
Who are muckrakers?
This U.S. policy aimed to keep China open to trade with all countries.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This 1920s trial highlighted the clash between science and religion in public education.
What is the Scopes "Monkey" Trial?
This Soviet leader worked with Reagan to de-escalate Cold War tensions.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This law passed after 9/11 expanded government surveillance and anti-terrorism powers.
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
This act, passed in 1882, was the first major law restricting immigration to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
He was the President known for the "Square Deal" and trust-busting.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This 1920 amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This president promised a “kinder, gentler nation” and led during the Gulf War.
Who is George H. W. Bush?
The U.S. invaded this country in 2001 in response to the 9/11 attacks.
What is Afghanistan?
This Supreme Court decision upheld racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1913 law created a central banking system in the United States.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
The 1920s resurgence of this white supremacist group signaled growing racial and nativist tensions.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This brief 1991 war expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait.
What is the Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)?
This conservative coalition of religious and political activists emerged in the 1980s to promote "traditional family values" and influence elections.
What is the Moral Majority?
his philosophy, championed by William Graham Sumner, argued that economic competition and success were a natural part of evolution.
What is Social Darwinism?
She was a leading Progressive and founder of Hull House.
Who is Jane Addams?
This agreement, signed in 1928, attempted to renounce war as a national policy.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
The 1990s saw a major expansion of this technology, transforming communication and the economy.
What is the Internet?
Violent conflict between workers and private security occurred during this 1892 strike at Carnegie Steel.
What is the Homestead Strike?