Gilded Age
A complex organization that controlled a city. Gained the support of the poor & immigrants by providing services, money, and bribes.
What are Political Machines?
The procedure by which a public official may be removed from office by voting.
What is Recall?
This island was annexed by the U.S. that would later be the reason the U.S. enters W.W.II.
What is Hawaii?
This unregulated action by Germany on U.S. ships, was on of the reason the U.S. joined WWI.
What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
Effectively made the manufacturing, sale and/or distribution of alcohol illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Organizations that came together to protest against unfair wages, long working hours and dangerous working condistions.
What are Unions?
Resulted in the creation of a federal income tax
What is the 16th Amendment?
This mysterious explosion that sank this U.S. ship anchored in Havanna Harbor, Cuba.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
His assassination is considered the Spark that started WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
An influx of immigrants to the United States that created the fear of communism spreading across the U.S.
What is the Red Scare?
Event that influenced the westward movement on the hopes of getting rich.
What is the Gold Rush?
Prohibited discrimination in voting on the basis of gender.
What is the 19th Amendment?
As a result of the Spanish-American War, the United emerged as one of these.
What is a World Power?
Letter that was intercepted and published in U.S. Newspapers, that encouraged Mexico to attack the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Traditionalists and progressives awaited the decision by the SCOTUS Trial that accused a teacher of teaching the theory of evolution.
What is the Scopes "Monkey" Trial?
Encouraged westward expansion by promissing 160 acres if you lived on it for 5 years and made improvements.
What is the Homestead Act?
Entity that takes votes from other parties, has never won an election, but introduces new ideas into politics.
What is a third party?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This Allied victory is considered the turning point of WWI & is credited for leading to the Armistice.
What is the Battle of Argonne Forest?
The large migration of African-Americans to northern states to escape racism and maltreatment in southern states.
What is the Great Migration?
Effort to coordinate programs designed to assimilate immigrants into American culture.
What is Americanization?
Passed in response to Upton Sinclair’s work The Jungle
What is the Food & Drug Administration?
Strongly supported that the U.S. had to have astrong navy to compete globally.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
President Wilson’s plan to ensure that peace would last.
What are Wilson's 14 Points?
This movement saw African-American culture, such as music and art, flourish.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?